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I've been reading up on the history of the Tyne and Wear Metro, but can't find any info on this. What was the service like between Newcastle and Sunderland before the Wearside Metro extension took over the all-stops service and left just the 1tph up the Durham coast (assuming there were more...

While I do understand the reliability reasons for splitting the service at Leeds, this just seems to be another blow for the already sub-par connectivity which East Yorkshire has to deal with. During the Huddersfield blockades (or seemingly any other engineering work west of Leeds) it is always...

I tried the "Buy tickets" function afterwards but to no avail, although I think it was specifically searching for advance tickets for some reason (it must've applied that filter automatically). Mind you, I'm not convinced of the merits of separating the two functions - what is the difference...

Yesterday evening I took the 21.14 train from my local station into Hull for a drink with a couple of friends, intending to catch the last train back at 23.25. I regularly travel in the evenings, though not usually this late, so I'd never encountered this before, but the TVM on the platform...

What effect has the introduction of PAYG in South-East Wales had on Newport-Cardiff XC loadings? PAYG is valid on XC and TfW but not on GWR, despite the latter providing the most frequent service between them. The PAYG fare undercuts the normal fare, as I understand it, so there may be an...

Bridgeton.

While it probably doesn't merit changing again, if anything it should've been renamed Sawston Parkway, given that (along with adjacent Pampisford) it's a much larger settlement roughly the same distance from the station as Whittlesford itself. It's also the closest station to Duxford IWM which...

What about the Thameslink Sutton loopers? These are all advertised to Sutton via Wimbledon/Mitcham Jct, but I can imagine there's a not-insignificant amount of cross-Sutton traffic - maybe the locals are in the know, but would an infrequent traveller be so sure? Surely 'all stations to...

Surely even if Norwich - Cambridge trains were diverted via Bury, the intermediate stations on the Breckland line would still have to be served by something? I suppose slotting more stops into the EMR could be an option, but likely not popular as it would increase journey times from Norfolk to...

I must say I've never heard a local member of the public call it by the 'Paragon' name; it's either 'Hull Interchange' or simply 'Interchange'. Perhaps it's a generational thing. Guards almost exclusively use only 'Hull', as do on-train/station announcements.

Thank you all for your replies; very interesting information indeed. I wasn't expecting the peak service to Moorgate to be so intensive - I'm surprised they could manage 18tph in the tunnels especially with such a restricted terminus. To think that even the off-peak service back then was more...

I wasn't able to find a previous thread on this, but I'm interested in what the original BR timetable looked like on the Northern City line, and the outer suburban services out of King's Cross after electrification in 1976. Am I correct in thinking that all 62 class 313s were originally destined...

I have a soft spot for Charing Cross. The hotel frontage and concourse are rather pleasant in my opinion, and its position at the exact centre of London is unique amongst the termini. The tube station is interesting too, with the abandoned Jubilee line platforms and the fact it is a combination...

That's certainly impressive, it's a hobby I enjoy very much. Beverley & District here, but also Oxford University Society when I'm there; I haven't done much ringing in the North West, so a bit of an unknown quantity!

How serendipitous! How long have you been ringing? I started almost nine years ago, originally around Cambridge, but have moved about since then.

Cello and piano, both since I was quite young, and I still play the cello in a decent orchestra; I don't get as much chance to play the piano, but I suppose it's not a very social instrument. I've always wanted to take up the oboe, but I'm not sure how I would manage all three! I'm also a church...

I managed to take a cello on a two CrossCountry trains today - that luggage area in coach D is bigger than it looks! Wouldn't go out of my way to recommend it however.

Is this the cause of the locking/unlocking sound the doors on the class 80x make as the train leaves/arrives at a station? That would explain it. I always wondered what that was.

Thanks, it seems odd since it works perfectly fine on some other websites (I usually use lner), especially since the railcard discount is usually the same no matter the type of railcard, and the forum website has no problem buying two tickets with the same railcard discount. As you say, booking...

Hello, long-time lurker here, but I have a question. On most split ticketing websites (or all that I've tried, including the forum's own which I have otherwise found to be very good), railcard discounts are automatically applied to every passenger in the journey, and there seems no option to...