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Hi all. I couldn’t immediately find a thread covering the above topic. What I have in mind is an around England, Scotland and Wales trip, as close to the coastline as possible, with overnight stays as required, but not using branch lines or doubling back anywhere, so I realise that on that basis...

Most of the frustration locally is from people who live near the already opened intermediate stations between Ashington and Newcastle, who have been unable to board the frequently rammed 2-coach trains, with little hope of replacement by 4-coach trains in the near future, except on the odd...

Formal bid to extend line to Newbiggin now submitted. “A formal bid to extend a railway line which has seen more than 900,000 passenger journeys in the year since it reopened has been submitted. Northumberland County Council asked the North East Combined Authority to extend the Northumberland...

When I watched Miles Kington’s ‘Three Miles High’ programme on Peru in 1980, part of the ‘Great Railway Journeys of the World’ series, I never dreamed I would one day take the train to Machu Picchu. However, I was privileged to experience that a few days ago, as part of a tour of Peru (with a...

I’ll be doing this trip, from Newcastle upon Tyne to Corbridge, for a meal at the Valley restaurant at Corbridge station, for the first time tonight, with 3 other people. As has been mentioned previously on the forum: “Our trained, smartly dressed staff will greet you at the station, at 5.30pm...

Setting off today on this (roughly) triangular trip which aims to do the Aberdeen-Penzance service before it ends next month, and also sample the GWR Pullman dining meal on a return leg. I will be staying overnight in Aberdeen tonight, and in Penzance tomorrow night (all being well with the...

Currently sat on southbound EC 1Y27 at Retford - guard has announced wires down at Tallington. EC website saying "A normal service is expected to resume by approximately 18:00." Edit: now "Disruption is expected until 23:59" :(

Another short report, which I thought might be of interest to anyone who is thinking of using the Caledonian Sleeper for the first time. My journey was on Sunday 6 October. I had to be in Windsor for 9am on the Monday morning, which meant that I either had to travel down and stay overnight on...

I only just noticed the Trip Reports thread, so I thought I'd add a short report about a recent Club 55 trip in Scotland. I only recently "qualified" for Club 55 :) , and I try to do a trip in each of the Spring and Autumn offers. So far, I've done an overnight trip to Mallaig, day trips to...

I'm thinking of offering my help as a volunteer worker on the Aln Valley railway project - would anyone like to share their experiences of working on that or any similar projects (i.e. relaying tracks, constructing/restoring buildings, working on rolling stock, etc, prior to the re-opening of a...

These are the different ways my print at home tickets have been inspected by EC over the last few months, in the order in which they have been inspected most times :) Not exactly consistent.. :| Scanned Not scanned, manually clipped Scanned and sight of credit card requested Checked...

I'm doing the Glasgow-Mallaig trip later this month (none of it on the Jacobite). My usual mode of rail transport is 225s/HSDTs on the ECML - can anyone advise me what it's like to spend over 5 hours on a 156? (And another 5 hours the following day :o )