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    Retro Railtours to Southend - Saturday 28 May

    Cheers for that Ned. Britain has gone 'health and safety/compensation mad' witness the abundance of 'ambulance chasers'. If you fell over a raised paving stone in the 70's so be it, you got up and got on with it. Don't get me started! A debate or another forum at another time me thinks.
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    Comparing and Contrasting Retro and Compass.

    Yes a good point. Many more travellers on the Retro tour had the GB Rail atlas out!
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    Comparing and Contrasting Retro and Compass.

    I recently went on the Retro railtour to Southend 28-05-11 and the Compass tour to Dundee 01-06-2011. Both good trips.Here are a few comments. Start Time Retro later and more sociable but Compass trip further to travel. On Train Info. An excellent 8 page booklet with route detail and timings...
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    Diesel Trips.

    Has anyone ever been up the Scarborough Hull on a trip. Really nice line to travel on!
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    The Trainline advert.

    Hi guess we have all seen the Trainline advert now. Which station is it filmed at. My guess would be Aberystwyth!
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    Competition 521 (Third Rail) :: Voting

    No 15 for me as it's very close to where I live. Also enjoyd no 6 too quite original.
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    Why isn't there many steam tours to the Sussex coast?

    Wouldn't suprise me. I live in the North but have been to Brighton several times from East Croydon. Totted it up one time and there at least 100 trains a day going to Brighton. It's a nice place don't get me wrong, but the number of trains to Brighton seems oversubscribed.
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    Retro Railtours to Southend - Saturday 28 May

    Hi again Ned will you be ok to share their response with us!
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    Retro Railtours to Southend - Saturday 28 May

    An excellent day out. Good to be behind two class 31's a first for me and well done to James and colleagues organising another excellent trip. The stewarding by C2C was well over the top at Southend and I for one am strongly tempted to e-mail C2C. The station manageress at Southend was clearly...

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