Recent content by MarlowDonkey

The Great Western built the line from Newbury to Taunton by amalgamating a series of branch lines. Maximum speed is 110 mph I believe. Beyond Exeter there are lots of curves and gradients. Didn't the Western Region in the 1960s try a non-stop Paddington- Plymouth service? When the line was...

Marlow (Bucks) would require three changes at peak hours. Reading, Maidenhead and Bourne End, If you travel via London, there would also be Kings Cross to Paddington or Farringdon (for the Elizabeth Line)

It went the other way for a while when Railtrack lost sight of the state of its infrstructure. Also the ToCs were allowed to adopt arguably unsafe working practices. I'm think of the Southall crash, where a single manned HST was allowed to run at full speed without an operational warning system...

Is it possible that holders of a Senior or Disabled Railcard will be directed to priority seats?

Makes sense. The "obvious" route from High Wycombe to WCML destinations and vice versa is via the Moor Street to New Street walk. The trick of changing at Banbury or Leamington to or from a Cross Country service has the merit of avoiding this when the timings work.

Try this https://book.splitticketing.com/results?FromStation=7030540&ToStation=7012430&Adults=1&OutboundDate=28%2F06%2F2024&OutboundTime=13%3A00&InboundDate=30%2F06%2F2024&InboundTime=18%3A00&Railcard=SRN&searchBy=0&firstClass=false&flexible=false&selectionMethod=Grid There's a choice of...

Should it matter? They all go via Birmingham and I don't have an exact time for the return anyway. Crewe to Birmingham is almost a metro frequency albeit on several routes. Hence the attraction of a split just at Birmingham rather than somewhere between Birmingham and Crew as well. The...

https://book.splitticketing.com/results?FromStation=&ToStation=&Adults=1&OutboundDate=17%2F04%2F2024&OutboundTime=20%3A45&InboundDate=17%2F04%2F2024&InboundTime=23%3A00&searchBy=0&firstClass=false&flexible=false&selectionMethod=Grid

I have been checking fares and times for a potential journey from High Wycombe to Crewe and return, leaving midday on Friday 28th June and returning on the evening of Sunday 30th June. Using the splitticketing.com site and specifying a Senior railcard with flexible fares it offers as a possible...

110 mph on a 387 along the Mains to and from Slough is a very much faster journey than the all stations 345.

Back in the days when all the services were operated by FGW, there was a curious late evening swop at Slough. One of the stopping trains would shuffle across to the up main and wait for ten minutes or perhaps longer to be overtaken by a stopping semi-fast. In the meantime HSTs would trundle...

Part of Hull Paragon has been converted to a bus station.

It was already popular with workers near to Central Line stations fifty years ago. Without ever measuring it, I had the perception that the walk between platforms from Bakerloo to Central or vice versa at Oxford Circus was just as long as Paddington to Lancaster Gate. Also the run from Oxford...

I thimk that's what they intend. The existing master socket would be replaced by a gadget with a socket to plug in an existing phone or phones. The gadget would be a router of some sort. If there is already a router plugged into the master socket through a filter, presumably the wiring can be...

When first built, the Bishops Road platforms were regarded almost as a separate station and all four platforms 13,14,15 and 16 had four rail electrification and connections through to the Circle line. In a 1960s remodelling, the Hammersmith & City line trains were moved to platforms 15 and 16...