• Our new ticketing site is now live! Using either this or the original site (both powered by TrainSplit) helps support the running of the forum with every ticket purchase! Find out more and ask any questions/give us feedback in this thread!

Search results

  1. K

    "Railways around Manchester" by John Glover

    I fnally got around to reading this having bought it a couple of years ago. Excellent well reproduced pictures but some of the captions are really disappointing. For someone with a supposedly encyclopaedic knowledge of the local railways Mr Glover makes some poor mistakes. The railway from...
  2. K

    Train types that have served Davenport (Fairly trivial)

    Hope this is the right place for this. I moved to davenport in 1977 (for the avoidance of doubt that is Davenport near Stockport on the Buxton branch) and at that time every train that served Davenport station was a BRCW class 104 DMU. There were no non-stop trains as far as I recall. Since...
  3. K

    What is a Bay Platform??

    Apologies if answered elsewhere ... I did do a bit of a search but found nothing. Having been interested in railways since the 1960s I was always quite clear that a bay platform was a terminal platform which was let into a longer platform (usually a through platform but on occasion a longer...

Top