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Last month (July 2026) whilst ticking off Tatra trams in the Buda area of Budapest, I heard the sound of a heavy piston prop plane. Looking up, there was the silhouette of a what I thought was a DC3! I was almost correct. A quick check on FR24 showed it to be HA-LIX, the last airworthy...

Another minor correction on this excellent map- Flixbus overnight has Middlesbrough and Sunderland transposed!

That's good news- I remember chatting to Phil when the Rat Race opnend, he's a canny chap. Cultural quarter though?! I do hope somebody has told the owners of the 'Royal backs' etc that Church Street is now cultural :lol:

I'd imagine that the asset in it's entirety is classed as part of the payment to whatever contractor carries out the demolition. That was certainly the case where I worked, an almost 100 years old chemical site. Some of us older guys (4 decades service give or take) wanted worthless bits and...

Metrocentre. I'm gonna hazard that, much like Meadowhall, almost every passenger arrived by public transport, with the odd one using it as a park and ride for Newcastle.

Perhaps worth mentioning here is that the 'Rat Race' ale house on Hartlepool station is now closed. The owner, the unique and fantastic 'Pierre' has retired. Undoubtedly to somewhere that they DO NOT sell lager :D

Hi, regarding your article about Whitby station. You can add to your list of visiting traction- DEMU 1001 was hired by Northern approx 25 years ago and worked the Whitby branch exclusively for a good few months! You can also add class 119 to the list, used during the 'Pacer crisis' in the late...

I can find ten in Co Durham- Hope, Scargill, Muggleswick, Brignall, Gilmonby, Ovington, Barforth, Hutton Magna, Lunedale and Wolsingham park moor lands.

Where I live, Arriva. Did you know that there are at least 4 different shades of Aquamarine? If not, come catch an ArrivaNE bus out of Durham. Of course, by the time it turns up, if it turns up at all, you'll no longer care about the presentation, you will be so relieved that you'll still get on...

Plenty of choices here, but for me it's got to be 555. Thanks to the appalling seats, both in terms of discomfort and positioning. I've been more comfortable sitting on the toilet with food poisoning. Airport to Sunderland anyone?

CSAD Liberec route 691 manages 3 different countries and 5 border crossings in 90 minutes. It starts in Czechia at Hradec nad Nisou, briefly visits Poland for the first time at Porajow, then crosses into Germany at Zittau. Back out of Germany and into Poland at Bogatynia, across the border to...

I absolutely love facts like that, every day is a school day! I apologise for drifting a bit off topic, but- is there a link between sedan(US) and saloon(UK) then?

Estate car? Station wagon. Work that one out etymologists :D

Agree wholeheartedly with Porto S Bento, Prague Hbf, Budapest Keleti. One that I found unexpectedly gorgeous was Görlitz. The exterior is striking, but I loved the tiling in the main hall, dark and light blues with contrasting cream and black. Uelzen is well worth a visit, for its wonderful...

Another vote for Frankfurt Hbf. The area around that station is horrible. Aggressive beggars, equally aggressive drug pushers. Shady looking gangs and knive flicking mouthy youths. Humans excreting on the steps to the U bahn, discarded needles, cars full of intimidating blokes crawling the...

How is that racist? Who cares if the person was an immigrant or not? If you take the time to read my statement, I'm saying that the person involved may not have realised that locking a station in the UK basically locks in travellers, BECAUSE, almost everywhere else, that would not be the case...

It's possible that the security person had no idea that passengers would be effectively locked into the station. The person may have come from somewhere other than the UK, or have no experience whatsoever of the railway. In almost every other country in the world, if the station building is...

In Szeged, Hungary the city operated SZKT trams share the tram lines through the city centre with MAV operated tramtrains to Hódmezővásárhely.

A couple of updates for the North East- between Peterlee and Sunderland the Arriva service is shown as 23 rather than 22. The 23 is half hourly Hartlepool to Peterlee, forming a 15 minute service with the 24. Also, the core direct service between Darlington and Bishop Auckland is shown as...

Have you considered a cargo ship crossing? This might be suitable if the social side of a cruise ship doesn't appeal. I'd imagine you would have to be happy in your own company of course. Edit, reread thread and realised that this has already been suggested. However I've looked into it further...