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can anyone tell me the valid routes from London to Exeter with an any permitted route?
I know you can travel via Salisbury, Westbury and Bristol, can you travel via Hove/Winchester and Southampton up to Salisbury?
mine include:
Ravensthorpe slightly west to capture services to/from Wakefield Kirkgate
Wembley Central to have a high/low level station with Chiltern Main Line
Just wondering where the best place / safest station car park is to park your car when driving down the M1/A1 to get on the London Underground.
Cockfosters?
Stanmore?
High Barnet?
Any others?
Thanks
Could TOCs take over the running of some Intercity station calls to free space up?
Such as:
Thameslink taking over EMT station calls at Wellingborough, Kettering and Corby by extending Bedford services.
Also extension of Peterborough services to Doncaster to take over calls at Grantham...
If you could remove station calls from specific TOCs for any particular reason which would you remove?
Eg. Remove Luton and Luton Airport Parkway from EMT services to accelerate services.
Today And tomorrow there are special trains to and from London Paddington and Reading to a special platform at Long Marston for Rail Live 2018. Price £40 return.
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U10667/2018/06/21/advanced
http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U10668/2018/06/21/advanced...
If you could create any direct services which currently don’t run which would you choose?
Mine would include:
London King’s Cross - Peterborough - Doncaster - York - Middlesbrough - Whitby
London King’s Cross - Peterborough - Retford - Worksop - Sheffield - Barnsley - Penistone - Huddersfield...
I am looking at some special stations to visit over the next few weeks. What I mean by special is Ghost stations, intriguing stations as such also.
I count a visit to a station as either leaving or boarding a train, not jumping on or off to touch the platform or where the train makes a...
I was thinking why there can’t be an additional curve by installed at Manton Junction to allow an East West service run East Anglia - Peterborough - Stamford - Corby - Kettering - Wellingborough - Bedford and beyond?
Even a double back at Oakham could significantly open up journey...
Heyford, there’s a bistro on the canal overlooking the station with frieght, Cross Country and GWR trains passing. A perfect place to sit in the sun watching the canal boats and trains passing.
Any others that spring to mind?
I’ve recently got hooked with visiting heritage / light railways.
I aim to to visit all of them at some point.
Railways I have visited since I recently started or previously include:
Bodmin & Wenford Railway
Nene Valley Railway
Severn Valley Railway
West Somerset Railway
Cleethorpees Coast...
Worle station near Weston-Super-Mare is advertised on all the local signage and rail signage approaching the station as “Worle Parkway”
Is there any history behind this? Was it built as a Parkway station and prior to opening the powers be decided to be named “Worle” without the “Parkway” addition?
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