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National Rail Conditions of Travel, see https://assets.nationalrail.co.uk/e8xgegruud3g/7iflSDtwN50mQZMP6SKWH0/3bded7549df32c2f5eeadefac8bcb5d9/National_Rail_Conditions_of_Travel_July_2026.pdf or https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/nrcot/

Scotrail diagrams at https://files.scotrail.co.uk/FOi Unit Diagrams May 2026.pdf?_gl=1*1xc44dc*_gcl_au*NjU3NDM2NjAyLjE3ODg0NTUzMDI.*_ga*ODA3Mjk0NzYwLjE3ODg0NTUzMDI.*_ga_1NBLFWKZDR*czE3ODg0NTUyOTkkbzEkZzEkdDE3ODg0NTUzNDAkajE5JGwwJGg2Nzg2MTg0ODY. Go to...

I did have a former colleague who resigned from IBM several years after I did, whose manager initially told him he wouldn't "allow" him to resign. I think that's a reflection on the poor management training in these companies nowadays. Needless to say he laughed at his manager and told him to go...

Long before I left IBM in 2008, and before I moved to Manchester in 1996, the only hotels on the “approved” list were the Britannia and Sachas, the latter owned by the same people I think. Both of them dire then, I’m glad to say I have no recent experience of either.

Diagrams available at https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/northern_unit_diagrams_may_to_de#incoming-3358593 1788340099 Hazel Grove: 2H92 08:10 Hazel Grove to Manchester Piccadilly, worked by 5H92 Piccadilly to Hazel Grove after working 2H80 06:17 Macclesfield to Piccadilly, continues to work...

Carbon Tetrachloride + hot Carbon (eg in a cigarette) produces Phosgene which is very much not good for you and was used in WW1 as a poison gas. I did used to like the smell of it, though. It’s also been used as a fire extinguisher.

I’m not a fan of Gordon Brown, but he stuck around after losing the 2010 election as an MP. Cameron and Starmer are both diminished in my view by being elected to do a job as an MP but running away before the next election. It seems the modern practice, but I’m not impressed by it. Theresa May...

It’s used frequently, as others have said, but it’s difficult to access and difficult to staff. It’s not too bad when all the services to a particular destination use it, but when they’re split across other platforms it’s a right pain; for a short while the Alderley Edge terminators used it...

Last Friday, 28 August, it had 5. It would not be unreasonable to think this was operating as booked.

I did it a year ago along with @yorkie and @yorksrob in an HST, but it was a long time since I first used it when it was more regularly used in the 1970s.

Probably 1S46 then worked 1M37 12:35 Edinburgh-Manchester Victoria and 1M55 was worked by 1S39 12:41 Liverpool-Edinburgh + 1P20 12:50 Manchester-Preston As in Post 144, #144

1S46 07:48 Liverpool-Edinburgh AIR +, followed 1S45 07:53 Manchester Victoria-Glasgow AIR + @, in 1974 working timetable. @ - air conditioned, so not the Liverpool as you stated, although it is shown as air braked. Return were 1M40 18:05 Glasgow-Manchester Victoria and 1M55 17:55...

No, I was trying to joke about the liberal use of abbreviations making the thread incomprehensible, "BRF" being "BR Fares" because - why not? I did also provide a link to it.

Likewise, Poynton library had a copy back in the day which I borrowed more than once.

I think it’s a good book, but sadly just about anything written subsequently by the same author was not good, I remember “complaining’” to the publisher about something I can myself no longer remember but was complete nonsense. We all pass our sell by date.

The "Cobbler" services ran to an E455 timing load, indicated for classes 81-85 in the working timetable, which ordinarily would have limited them to something like 315 tonnes to maintain the schedule, but were noted as being allowed to run with 455 tonnes. All in all this implied that their...

There was a "100" cutout at Edgeley Junction after the Buxton branch, and an "85" after Cheadle Hulme on the Macclesfield line back in the day, both indicating full line speed but also where it commenced. The "100" got moved towards Cheadle Hulme for signal sighting reasons (I believe) in due...

Yes, I saw that as well, but couldn’t see an easement to permit it.

It’s not a permitted route for “any permitted” tickets, because “any permitted” doesn’t mean “any route permitted by any ticket”, it means “any route permitted by the routeing guide”.

Any permitted route means any route permitted in the routeing guide, https://rgpp.iblocks.co.uk/reference-data which in this case translates to the mapped route showed on map YA at https://rgpp.iblocks.co.uk/maps which excludes Selby to York via Leeds as a permitted route.