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    How did Worcester Shrub Hill & Worcester Foregate St both survive Beeching/rationalisation?

    A couple of weeks ago I took a trip up to Worcestershire. On the way up the train went via Shrub Hill but on the way back Foregate St. Given how close they are and how run down the railways were in the 1960s, I couldn't help wondering how they both survived and why one of them wasn't closed...
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    "Vandalism" delaying trains between Hereford and Cardiff (29/1)

    The 12.32 Holyhead - Maesteg and 13.30 Manchester - Tenby are both showing as "delayed due to vandalism" somewhere between Hereford and Abergavenny. They seem to be moving again after a delay of around 45 minutes and northbound trains appear to be unaffected. Anybody know if this was due to...
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    Holyhead trains terminating at/starting from Newport?

    I was just looking around National Rail Enquiries thinking about one of my occasional trips across the Severn when I came across an anomaly. Up until w/c May 9th all is well, but in the week of May 16th a journey to/from anywhere on the direct Cardiff-Holyhead trains means changing at...
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    Strange HST consist at Bristol Temple Meads (BRI)

    On Friday I was at Bristol Temple Meads waiting for a train to Newport when I happened to look at the 125 across the platform waiting to depart for London. There was a Coach A at both ends (yes, a standard class beyond the 1st class carriages but as you'd imagine not one passenger in it), no...
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    What do you need/where can you divide trains?

    Those of you who work in the industry will know this inside out but for us lay people what is needed to be able to divide/connect trains. (I'm talking primarily about multiple unit-types rather than engine+coaches) Presumably most divisions/joinings are done at major stations or junctions...
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    1993/94 London - Bristol & South Wales; Severn Beach; Cardiff - Manchester/Nottingham

    I was clearing out a drawer and found a pile of pocket timetables from 1993/1994. They make interesting reading. Monday - Friday services showed: The Severn Beach line had a more or less hourly service from 06.00 but the last train from Temple Meads was 20.10 (now 22.15). Cardiff -...
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    When did BR axe steam trains on coal lines?

    Hello This is my first posting as I am sure there are people out there who will be able to assure me that I have not been hallucinating for the past 40 years. Every website or reference book says that BR axed steam engines in 1968 (except for Vale of Rheidol etc!). Was this only for...

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