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I want to book a journey from Kings Cross to Bempton on Saturday 10th October. Last week the advance tickets were not available, much as I expected, but in theory they should be available this week. I signed up to Northern's email notification to alert me when advance tickets are on sale, and...

I have been reading about the new tiered membership options on the NYMR. https://www.nymr.co.uk/about/memberships/become-a-member/ It looks like I am going to be paying more for less if I opt for basic membership as I assume that come renewal my existing membership will need to transfer to...

If we had spent £20b on the WCML instead of £100b on HS2, new rolling stock, signalling, increase some platform lenghts, whatever, and gone for 'best quality' rather than cheapest what could the result look like. As examples of 'best quality' any power supply upgrades would allow for decent...

I have seen various adverts for the tickets to celebrate the 150 years of this route. Northern website mentions them, as do various press articles. But how do you book them? Tried putting in various combinations into the Northern app, but certainly nothing at this price, so anyone have any info...

When I say milage based I dont mean the same pence per mile rate over the whole of the UK, My thinking is to do it on a per route basis. Again back to the example of our local route pence per mile rates vary from from 19.8p (Scarborough - Hull off peak day return, cheaper deals can be had for...

A thought started by the 'Which year was the lowest ebb' thread Had the privatisation of BR proceeded as return to the big 4 model where would that leave us today? The goverment would have sold off shares, as they did with BT and British Gas (which were pretty much monopolies at the time of...

Starting with the December timetable a new connection possibility has arisen, as a Hull trains London service will leave Beverley at 08:10, and call at Cottingham at 08:16. The train from home passes through at 08:10, so a 6 minute connection, its same platform, just get of the train and wait...

Following on from the thread about Quilling, in Bridlington we had Barrow Boys. These were youngsters who would wait outside the station and carry cases to the guesthouses on a barrow for a few pennies, usually these barrows were home made based on an old pram or pushchair frame in a lot of...

One of level crossings in the village has a very quiet audible, I am deaf and cant hear it at all, the other one I can hear fine. So, is there a minimum sound level? I took a video of it this morning and played it to my wife, she said she could hear it but it was quiet. Where do I go with it...

First of all not sure where this best fits, but to me it is 'Speculative' or possibly 'Allocations, Diagrams and Timetables' The current 'Sunday' services in many areas do not meet peoples needs. On our local line the first southbound service on Sunday is not until 10:43 (its 07:22 the rest of...

We travelled on a class 155 DMU Saturday, and both used the toilet facilities before reaching our destination. The issue, the position of the toilet in the toilet compartment. The compartment is spacious, plenty of room for wheel chair access, but the toilet bowl is right in the farthest corner...

Must be a through journey using the same route as the earlier faster journey. At least one train per day, I am not interested in 'specials' I am interested in the worst performing route(s) earlier v current journey times as a percentage. To avoid a lot of short journeys where times may have...

On the face of it a fairly simple one. Assuming the 'London Extension' of the GCR had survived in some form or other. By survived I mean track bed intact, and major bits of infrastructure, e.g. bridges, tunnels etc still in place and subject to basic maintenance so can be brought back into use...

We made one of our regular visits to Peterborough at the weekend and were travelling on the LNER Azumas for part of the journey. Bacause Doncaster - Peterborough is only just under an hour and there is no 1st class from home to Doncaster we travelled standard class, otherwise for lesiure...

A trip is in the early stages of planning. There are certain 'fixed points', but there are parts which are going to depend on whats possible from these fixed points and when we go (Object/highlight of the trip is the Bernina Bahn). Now I can put the start and end points into a journey planner...

This has cropped up in a post on Facebook... So can anyone on here spread any more light on this subject. You certainly dont need them today, but when did they die out, or were no longer required?

This question popped into my head whilst reading another thread. So seems like a simple question, but I couldn't find an answer. As to what counts as different, I would say if 'traction knowledge' of a particular class or group of classes covers you for all of the sub classes then it counts as...

We are trying to book one of our regular day trips to visit family in Peterborough, so looking for a Bempton - Peterborough return journey I went online last night to try and book tickets, and there are no journeys available because the Doncaster - Peterborough leg is 'sold out' throughout the...

A simple question, but I suspect a more complex answer. When did route knowledge become a requirement? Same for traction knowledge My understanding is in steam days you took what you were given. Did it come in with diesel traction? Was it a 'creeping' process, or was there an 'after [date]...

I am aware that there is a dispute ongoing, but current level of cancellations is rendering the service unusable. From our local station (Bempton) the service is hourly. so a cancellation really renders the service useless. Over the weekend we needed to make two trips to Scarborough, but with...