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Just a small point. I'm a user of Bache station myself and the car park is free. Something of a variety these days!

Marking its 100 year anniversary, Flying Scotsman has been on display this weekend in the Doncaster Freightliner terminal.

The Widnes Loop (Widnes Central and Tanhouse Lane stations) Hunts Cross - Gateacre Lines into and out of the following stations: Liverpool Exchange Liverpool Central High Level Liverpool Riverside Birkenhead Woodside Atlantic Junction - Canada Dock (Liverpool) Dingle - Seaforth & Litherland on...

I live in Chester but have never done Bidston - Wrexham

That's correct - I should have been clearer.

My local Merseyrail station, Bache, doesn't have a booking office, just a single TVM. Neither does Capenhurst. I think they may be the only two on the network.

Passing Bache on the Rock Ferry - Chester leg

I clearly don't meet the OP's definition of a sensible British citizen because I've had a short break in Afghanistan. I stayed in Kabul and visited Bamiyan where the amazing Valley of the Giant Buddhas was located before the Taliban destroyed them. This was in 1976 when the country was...

@nlogax Yes that's it. I was surprised to see it when I was being driven through Bahrain many years ago.

Ex BR 4BIG buffet car in use as a restaurant in Bahrain. I wasn't able to photograph it when I was there but it can be found by googling.

Heard on a stationery HST several years ago. "Ladies and gentlemen I've got bad news and good news. The bad news is that both of our engines have failed. The good news is that this isn't a Boeing 737."

Thanks Yorksrob. I could give the Llangollen Railway a try.

I'd be grateful for any advice on how to dispose of a quantity of old railway books, magazines and photo albums that have come into my possession from the widow of a deceased friend who had been a railway enthusiast in his youth. They are mostly in good to fair condition and are either "free to...

It's pity that SWT couldn't have given the OP the benefit of the doubt as it appears he had nothing to gain by fabricating the story and is now a disgruntled customer. I had a vaguely similar incident some time ago when I purchased a return ticket from a TVM. What the machine actually spewed...

Port Sunlight from Spital (and probably a number of other Merseyrail pairs)

Ah yes 42064 was quite a regular in that area. There's a nice photo of her on the final service at Widnes Central on the Disused Stations website.

I was a passenger on the last train over the Widnes Loop through Widnes Central and Tanhouse Lane in October 1964. The line was a loop off the main CLC Liverpool - Manchester line between Hough Green and Sankey and in its last years very few trains took this route. The final train was a rake...

Tonight's programme included a simulated train fire using a Mark 3 sleeper. At the end of the exercise they said that there had never been a real life carriage fire. They had obviously overlooked the fatal fire on the Penzance - London sleeper in 1978.

Thanks for the info. It was a very unconvincing accident site!

Last night's episode of the ITV drama series "Law and Order UK" featured a fatal train crash. The props were a set of disguised Virgin Mark 2s with a fake driving cab at one end which had run into a car at a crossing. This had caused 15 fatalities on the train although the train didn't look...