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I finally managed to visit the Musée des Transports Urbains in Chelles, which is a suburb to the east Paris. The museum is around 12 miles from the city centre and is easily accessible by public transport. They have a wide range of vehicles and artefacts from 'Urban Transport' in France...

When were carriage lights left permanently on? Growing up i seem to remember that they would only be switched on for tunnels or as it got dark. Reason it dropped into my mind is that some RER A (and may be other) trains in Paris seem to turn lights off when not in tunnels when light is good. I...

Trains are currently being delayed by 10-15 minutes between Filey and Seamer. According to National Rail and Northern websites this is caused by a 'track defect' causing a speed restriction to be put in place. Does anyone know whats happened, as the 6 miles between the two stations are taking up...

Following on from discussions about pre nationalisation stock I have often wondered when the last 4 or 6 wheel carriages were withdrawn from passenger service, and where they were last used Just to be clear: I am not referring to 'Pacers', the 1950s railbuses or vans, carriage trucks etc...

On our local selling site this has popped up free. To be honest it looks like scrap, but I have no idea how old it is or if it is of any interest. If anyone wants any more information I can put them in touch with the owner. Its based in East Riding of Yorkshire. I have spoken to the owner and he...

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...