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BR fares.com shows a Off Peak Return route Warminster/Salisbury from Bath to Wimbledon at £50.80. This is an ideal ticket for two elderly visiting me as the journey will involve one change at Woking (which is normally on the level from Platform 2 to Woking Pier, aka Platform 3) from the through...

With permission of the moderators for which I am very grateful. A very close friend of mine recently passed away and while I was checking his mail yesterday, I came across a ticket for the UK Railtours Ayr Apparent on Saturday 27th August. I'm unable to use the ticket and it's too late to...

There's been a bit of a discussion in some threads recently on how to log tube stock so I thought that I'd try to set out one way of logging tube stock. The generally accepted way to do this is to record the outer numbers of the train unless there is a lower numbered car elsewhere in that half...

This is the long-promised thread of pure nostalgia containing bashing and other trip reports from days gone by. I’ve been interested in the real railway since the early 1970s and while I started logging haulages from about 1973, it was the early months of 1978 when I first started bashing...

Some more help with mileages please. This time for the Western Region 1. Before it closed, I traversed the old Cheltenham to Honeybourne line. Once on the return leg a half day DMU excursion from Bristol to Worcester and the other on an excursion from Bristol to York. I would like to know the...

I am trying to work out all my railway mileages but i have come a bit unstuck with one railtour I did, RPPR's Great Farewells tour back in September 1980. Full details of the tour are on the excellent Six Bells Junction website http://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/ but no mileages. I have...

Having had some feedback on the way I report things, I am changing the way that I report my haulage acquisitions. No longer will I list every single item that warrants an entry in the comments column of my own personal log. Instead I hope to focus on the big trips rather than things that I...

As suggested in the Red Pen haulage thread, here's a new thread to record you photographic hits, scores, winners, cops or whatever you want to call them. I'll be logging anything standard gauge diesel or electric powered items that fits into the following categories - all time hits, i.e. I...

Several connected questions. Note that I have a disabled railcard as well as an annual zone 1-4 travelcard. I propose using this ticket as a means of travelling from London to use a 3 in 7 East Midlands Rover on a weekday in August. 1. How much for the BZ4 to Bedford Off Peak Day Return with...

Carrying on from a previous thread about which locos and/or multiple unit classes you may have secured haulage from/travelled on, who has cleared which classes for haulage/travel? I will pitch in with Locos - 43, 50 and 87 DMUs - 155 EMUs - 307, 313, 315, 319, 322, 332, 376, 442, 455...

I am travelling London to Glasgow using an Off Peak Return (SVR) purchased with a Disabled Railcard outwards on a Wednesday, return on a Thursday/Friday. Could some kind soul look up the current restrictions against this ticket with particular reference to 1. Is break of journey allowed on...

Ticket experts, a little help please. I am planning the following journey in a few weeks time Day1 Depart Euston 09:30, to Carlisle Spend several hours in Carlisle and go forward to Glasgow later same day Overnight in Glasgow Day 2 07:06 Glasgow Queen Street to Inverness, Overnight...