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As a young child, I travelled with my parents between Leeds and Newcastle a few times up to about 1965. I can remember on one occasion being taken to the front of the train at the water troughs which must have been Wiske Moor so that journey would have been via York Would there also have been a...

Grand Central have cancelled the 14:14 from Sunderland today. They have tweeted ( or is it now Xed) the following. The next GC train is 4 hours later at 1814 Any alternative ticket bought on the day is likely to be much more expansive than the refunded amount. Do GC not have an obligation...

Related in part to this thread regarding penalty fare signage, I can foresee situations where a passenger would not think to look for or read such notices. The web page for the Explorer55 ticket clearly states that tickets can be purchased on the train or from a ticket office. There is no...

I need to travel from A to D, changing trains at B and C and returning the same day. Ideally, I would catch the 09:29 from A to B , but this is 1 minute before the validity of an off-peak day return. I plan to instead depart from station B ( at 9:50 ), returning to A later in the day...

I regularly took Londonmidland Trains from Nuneaton to Euston a few years ago. Times were a little slower than Virgin Trains, but not much. Typically times were between 1hr 10 and 1hr 20. For example, the 07:27 stopping at Rugby and MK was timetabled to Euston at 08:41, usually arriving a...

I have an off-peak day travelcard ticket from Nuneaton to London Zones 1-6 for the 20th August for an important meeting so I need to travel. Due to Grant Shapps, there are no LNW trains running from Nuneaton on that day. Would my ticket be valid if I joined a Birmingham-Euston LNWR train at...

The Northumberland Gazzette reports a Class37 in difficulty on a trailer travelling north through Warkworth. The photographs don't show any numbers on the locomotive. I can't think of any railway locations between which it would be necessary to take this route. Does anyone know the route?

I remember in my summer holidays of the early 1970s that BR ran mystery tours from Newcastle Central ( and presumably other stations) On one occasion, for our two quid, we ended up in Cleethorpes, which was a bit of a dump. I suspect there are many reasons why this would not work today, but...

This afternoon, between Nuneaton and Amington Junction, all trains seem to be taking the slow lines in both directions. Would it be normal for engineering work to tasks place in the middle two tracks with the outer two live? Or are the fast lines out of use for some other reason?