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Hi, I am planning a trip to Boston in November for a few days. To explore wider afield, any suggestions for a day trip out from any of the city mainline railway stations?

For reasons of rail exploration of an infrequent passenger service, I'm looking to go to from Chester to Ellesmere Port via Helsby. The chap in the ticket office said "not permitted", whereas the guard on the Chester to Manchester train said "permitted". Who was right and how can I present...

This place has always struck me as a curiosity, once comprising a very comprehensive railway infrastructure in a remote part of the North West. Anyone have any anecdotals?

Noticed this short section of single track line, just east of Bare Lane station. Seems a bit incongrous but is its primary use to facilitate the network of rails to the east as a turning triangle? ...and does it ever get used much in this respect?

Definition: burnden [burn-den] noun, (pl-) a rake of burndens An obsolete piece of equipment, usually a wheeled railway wagon or similar, that has been abandoned in a siding on a long term basis. Especially in the case of such equipment becoming obscured from view, for part of the year...

Does Chester Station hold the record for the most higglety-pigglety collection of roof designs? Must be half a dozen in this shot alone:

I think this has been touched on before but do the interconnecting points between the East Lancs Railway and the Metrolink serve any purpose? Noticed the points the other day on a trip from Manchester to Bury Market and they looked perfectly serviceable. Could you drive a steam engine into...

Just a heads-up to anyone planning a trip to North Wales. http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/road-closed-north-wales-because-6148596

Please can anyone help ID the type of bolt in the photo below. (I know, I know, knackered!)

Was looking at my 1:25,000 map of Salford/Manchester and spotted this curious piece of retained infrastructure. From Google, looks like it services some kind of mill. Does anybody know its use or even if is still in use...

Got the idea for this thread from the reserved seat thread but.... Say you are sat in a carriage, around a table, and end up "eyeballing" a complete stranger. Do people find this uncomfortable (as I do) and what tips ar there for avoiding same?

Inverness railway station forms quite a large and integrated transport hub. So how come platform 7 is so remote and detached, i.e. did it ever extend to the canopy of the main station building?

Going to a model engineering exhibition in the new year and need to get from London Euston to the venue itself. http://www.alexandrapalace.com/whats-on/london-model-engineering-exhibition/ Seems that there are a few alternatives of underground/underground but nothing direct. Unless I...

From Lancashire Telegraph: http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/9917947.Rail_campaigners_call_for_more_trains_in_Blackburn_to_Hellifield_route/

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/9908601.Double_boost_for_Blackburn_Bolton_railway_plan/

This may have been asked before but has anyone tried taking a satnav on a train journey from the point of view of measuring their ground speed. Alternatively, does anybody know an app that can be downloaded onto an ipad* which does a similar thing (maybe even provide a journey/data log...

Saw quite a large team of individuals working under floodlight tonight (Sunday) at the above. Amongst other things, they seemed to be lengthening the platforms.

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/9144874.__1_26m_project_to_reinforce_Nelson_bridge/ A MAJOR project is set to be unveiled to reinforce and upgrade one of the best-used railway bridges in Pendle. Around £1.26million will be invested in the overhaul for Walton Lane bridge in...

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/9032186.Burnley_s_Todmorden_Curve_line_could_be_running_by_2013/

Some years ago I visited the signal box adjacent to the above. At the time, there was still a (functional) passing loop and the signalman said he would send the odd train down there "to keep the weeds down". You can see from Google Earth that NR have now done quite a bit of improvement work...