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A Class 74 was a regular performer on what I think was the 7.17 from Eastleigh to Waterloo. Usually the74 was at the head of the 11TC formation, but occasionally at the rear. On at least one occasion it was sandwiched between 8TC and 3TC! There was also the occasional substitution of a Class 73.

Wasn't the Alton to Winchester line referred to as 'Over the Alps' in the distant past?

Back in the 1960s there was an 11TC/Class 74 formation into Waterloo - presumably from Southampton - which I saw everyday while waiting at Fleet for a service in the opposite direction. Occasionally, this had the 74 sandwiched between the 3 TC and one of the 4TCs.

Leverburgh to Berneray as mentioned above, and Hurtigruten from Bergen to Kirkenes.

I assume you've tried Timetable World:- https://timetableworld.com/timetables.php

I had overlooked the now closed Town Station. Many thanks for the correction.

Should anyone be interested, I've now found the timetable on Timetable World in the form of the ABC Coach & Bus Guide for Summer 1961.

Firstly, many thanks for both replies. I had looked on Timetable World, but under Royal Blue rather than W&D. The 10:50 departure must have been the one I remembered. Having said that, with numerous duplicates as well as Saturday summer congestion on the A30 and A303, the timetable tended to...

As a child I had several holdiays with my parents which involved a journey to Stoke Fleming, near Darmouth in Devon, by coach. As I recall, we boarded in Basingstoke, and changed coaches in Exeter. In those pre-motorway days it was a bit of an all day jaunt, leaving Basingstoke at 10:30 or so...

It was certainly a grass bank back in the mid 60s when I travelled to school in Farnborough from Fleet. The regular engine in the morning was Winston Churchill.

The John Heaton 'Area Manager's Diary' books are a really good read!

Stagecoach 81 Bedford to Luton is frequently operated by coaches. In the main this is, I think, as a result of positioning moves for vehicles used on the Luton Airport to Milton Keynes service. There is also a good mix of single and double deck buses on the 81 route.

"He drove the Wadebridge into Waterloo Station at 3:45AM. The station, although the largest and busiest in England came about by the strange extension of the Nine Elms terminal of the London and Southwest Railway..." I can't see that anyone has commented that it should be 'the London and South...

Southampton to Waterloo only 1 minute slower than the hourly REP/TC services 40 years ago!

Ah, the reinstatement of Sturt Lane Junction! A quick look at Google Earth suggests the land required to achieve this has not been built upon, but sadly I suspect it will never happen.

Luton Airport (Bus) is LUA. It seems surprising that the opportunity wasn't taken to make this the same as the already existing IATA code for the airport, which is LTN. Instead, this CRS code is given to Luton Airport Parkway.

The Waterloo disruption page of the SWR website reports that:- Services to and from Weymouth via Virginia Water will be substantially reduced. Can someone explain what is meant by this please? Are Weymouth services really being diverted via Virginia Water?

Back in the 70s there was a Summer Saturday service from Poole to Sheffield. I once caught this from Southampton to Basingstoke. After alighting I was surprised to see it heading off towards Waterloo rather than towards Reading as I had expected. When I checked later I discovered that the...

The publication date is shown on the magazine's Contents page as the fourth Thursday of the month. As a subscriber who receives his copy by post, I usually receive it the day before. I once queried non-arrival by the Monday following the fourth Thursday. I was told at the telephone that...