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From BBC News early this afternoon: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn5lxg2l0lqo -Peter

Hi all, Please do let me know if there's already an explanation for this on the forums. 802022 has been in platform four at Plymouth for quite a while and looking on OpenTrainTimes and RealtimeTrains shows it was supposed to be on 5C96 to Laira last night just after midnight, but it's still...

I note that there is already an existing thread on this subject: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/smart-meters-after-switch-off-of-bbc-radio-long-wave.275535/ But that one is focused on the end of the RTS (Radio Teleswitch Service). I've made this thread to discuss the end of Radio 4 on...

I've just seen in the Radio Times for this week that London to Brighton: Side by Side is opening BBC Four's programming this coming Saturday (26 April), starting at 7 p.m. It's only five minutes but a lovely little film showing the route in 1953 and 1983. This was last shown on BBC Four in May...

Hi there all, Firstly - apologies if this is post is in the wrong place. I didn't know whether to put it in the 'Disputes and Prosecutions' bit because it's more of a query than a dispute. It's probably quite simple really but I'd love some advice from the knowledgeable people here. I...

To paraphrase Victoria Wood, that title took two days to think up: one day for the name, and another for the comma... and yet it still makes no sense. :lol: Let's see if I can explain myself - strap yourselves in, keep arms and feet inside the ride at all times, and keep an eye out for a buffet...

Or, 'I've gone a bit mad trying to find a new spotting book'. :lol: Evening all. I'm hoping someone on here might be able to help me - it's a bit of a long shot, though. I've got a green, leather-effect cover, A6 spotting book which I use to record the trains I've seen - it's from WHSmith...

Evening all. :) I know there can be a lot of negativity surrounding the railways at the moment, so I was wondering what people's favourite things are about them there train things (and the stuff they run on and around). This isn't the first thread on this sort of theme, I know, but I thought...

Evening all. In the course of some research I'm doing, I've come across a mention of someone leaving their luggage at a luggage store in or near Piccadilly Circus Underground station in 1955 (that's as much information as I have). I've tried to look into it, but Google just keeps showing...

I had a look, but couldn't see any previous threads in this vein, so please let me know if I've missed something! I just thought it might be nice to have a thread for talking about model railway exhibitions people on here have either been to or are going to go to, either as an operator or a...

I had a thought this morning: have any 10-car IET services worked along the Cotswold Line (Oxford - Hereford) since their introduction? I did a quick search on the forums just now and couldn't find anything mentioning an instance of this happening, but upon looking on RealTime Trains (which I...

I've done a quick search but couldn't see anything about this program on the forum. Currently watching it on iPlayer after noticing it was on yesterday and it seems really good. It shows a journey of 60103 along the Severn Valley Railway a few years ago from the footplate (with several exterior...

I've done some looking around but couldn't see anything relevant to this topic - please let me know if there's already an explanation! When waiting to watch the GBRf tour yesterday, I noticed that the announcements played when a train approaches include a notice telling passengers that the end...

This looks to be one of the GWSR's biggest galas in recent times. From their website: https://www.gwsr.com/enthusiasts/40th_Anniversary_Celebration.html Timetables are yet to be released but it does sound good! -Peter

I've done a bit of looking into this and can't find anything - please point me in the right direction if I've missed something. Looking at RealTime Trains for Charlbury next Monday (9.8.2021), there are four empty coaching stock workings, in the following order: 5Z21 0712 London Paddington -...

I'm hoping this won't, to quote Sir Humphrey Appleby, become a "troublemaker's letterbox" for people to share their issues with individual products. My thinking behind this thread was to provide a place to share news and updates regarding issues about the supply and stock of model railway items...

Following from this post (and related discussion) in the ABC Rail Guides thread: I thought it might be worth making a new thread for this magazine considering it's separate from the ABC Rail Guide books. As said in the post quoted above, it's a new publication from Colin J Marsden and is going...

Barrie Davis has published, on his YouTube channel, a few videos referring to "Rails of Hope" - a scheme run by himself, and I believe maybe a couple of others, to provide free model railway items for disabled people. Here are the videos he's published so far: (There a couple of others, but...

From Auntie Beeb: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-57399628 They were also reporting that the sites of the New York Times, Guardian, and Financial Times were offline. Quite the story it seems, even if it only lasts for a short amount of time? -Peter EDIT: The BBC News article is...

Hello :) I recently obtained, through the "Free to a good home" section on RMWeb, a set of three Modern Railway Working volumes - these being Vol. 2, Vol. 5, and Vol. 6. On the inside title page of Vol. 2, it seems to list 1912 as the publishing date, and in Vol. 5 and Vol. 6, 1913 is the year...