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"Can someone be kind enough to give a brief description about each mag" Well, it would be difficult to do a fair critique of each publication (i.e. quality of journalism, reliability, coverage of different topics/subject matter) unless you were a journalist or someone knowledgeable about the...

Railway Herald offer subscriptions for: a single issue/one month/6 months/a year. I paid for 1 month just to try it out. Presumably they will lose no time in reminding me that my subscription has expired and encouraging me to renew it! I am astonished at the great number of railway and...

Ah, something intuitive on my part maybe! Not wishing to be patronising, you express yourself in a nice, clear articulate way. So far, so good. Taken out a month's trial subscription with the RH online mag and it does seem to be very extensive and interesting coverage. Acheing to get away...

Condor7, you would make a good life insurance salesman! Persuasive, I will give Railway Herald a try, I want a good, up-to-date source of news/upcoming events. I noticed the RH had a comprehensive list of heritage events etc.

I looked at the Railway Herald site - colourful and interesting but of course an online subscription magazine. Is that usual and is it worth it? My first reaction is that so much info is online for free nowadays that I am cautious of sites which feel the need to charge .. Also, I still...

Thanks very much for your comments. I later found an old thread under "UK Railway Discussion: Railway news sites" which listed popular websites (I am not going into those - dozens of 'em!) and also some of the printed magazines (some have folded now of course). So far, the mags recommended by...

Sorry if this has been covered before, although I did search around. I have always been fascinated by trains and the history and this forum has kept me up late a few nights. For someone who didn't start out as a train enthusiast, what are the best ways for me to keep up with rail news and find...

I only saw the continental train there once (I suppose it didn't really come through the Catford Loop at the times when I was commuting to work in London!), so I didn't realise that was quite a usual route. Presumably the crossover point was and is at Denmark Hill.

Just come across this fascinating thread - sorry if my comments repeat what has been covered before .. but I remember that in the late 1960's (I'm that old!) I always thought of the Catford Loop as being a little local/suburban line serving my home station of Crofton Park. And getting my father...

I checked the website again and it does appear that services have been updated, but I still could not find a clear statement about what routes are actually running and whether all stations are now accessible (just a mention of East Grinstead - some track problem I recall). It isn't the best...

Really fascinating and just the sort of trip I am thinking of doing, when the lockdown eases off. It eventually dawned on me that, if I stayed in one base for a few days e.g. Glasgow/Edinburgh/Fort William, distances onward to surrounding areas were not that great and I could see a lot of...

I'm sorry if the title of my original post ruffled some feathers! But it made the essential point - that besides coming across contradictory information on the website (and on some important points no information), I did indeed find one fare quoted at £75 and another at £45. And it was clearly...

I appreciate all the replies. The fact that there is some debate about quite how the fares policy plays out seems to bear out my impression that the website is not clear and informative. I understand the need for booking a whole compartment (although nowhere is that clearly explained) - fine...

I was thinking of popping over to Sheffield Park one Saturday before the season ends, never seen this railway before and it's not far from me in East Sussex. Colourful, interesting website and I admire all that they have achieved, but finding precise and clear info on the website is difficult...

It is not the best time weather-wise to go off for a few days, but in this funny UK climate things can change quite rapidly, so hopefully you will be lucky. I am not on Instagram, should be maybe because I have a lot of photos of my travels but, if you don't post your train photos anywhere...

Techniquest, I have glanced at your website - fascinating and inspiring to others, with some lovely photography. I will immerse myself in that later - probably in bed when I can't go off to sleep, then dream of wonderful places! I have done some travelling abroad, not for a few years. It does...

It's a funny sort of situation, I have time to take a break (which I need), I can afford it (many people cannot at present), I am not bothered about luxury hotels (all you need is a comfortable bed above a pub) - but the abnormal circumstances make it a doubtful proposition and the weather in...

I greatly appreciate all the replies to my original post and I am amazed that so much interest was aroused! Sorry about my tardy response – it has been a difficult decision to make, done a lot of planning but, with the situation and the lockdown instructions changing almost daily, in the end my...

I have browsed all the threads extensively, gathered a lot of very helpful tips about where to go etc . - and also glanced over the Covid 19 threads! So I am sorry if some of this has been covered before, but we are living through such strange times that I feel deeply guilty about popping up...

Rather a lot of years ago, the roving radio presenter Brian Johnston visited one of the London mainline terminus stations. He somehow persuaded the PA staff to announce "Would the passengers who have just taken the train from Platform 9 please return it, as it is wanted immediately".