Recent content by calopez

In my experience, many of the seats not described as 'Limited window view' are still poorly placed for people who want to enjoy the landscape rather than their phone!

Unless I've missed it, the LNER PDFs don't show you where the windows actually are, do they?

In case anyone's interested, we got to Victoria at 0944 (having been lucky with the Central line!), obviously missed the 0945, but there were no queues and we had a coach to ourselves on the 1000. After seeing my wife off at Gatwick, I caught the 1146 back to Victoria, for which there was a...

Thanks! Looks like it's going to be do-able, then. Did you get away on the train you expected, or did you have to wait for a later one?

I have to get to Gatwick Airport on 30 January, by around 1100. Southern are advertising a 15-minute interval shuttle on that day. Did they run something similar on previous strike days? (I can't remember.) Would it be foolish to rely on that?

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks that!

Forsinard. Though it might have changed a bit in the forty years since I last passed through there!

If I can find the ones in my attic I'll try to check whether they're ink or carbon! Mine are just the ribbons, as supplied by the BR stationery stores. They are in foil or cellophane wrappers. We didn't need to change the ribbons very often, but, when we did, I don't recall it being a...

I haven't used a date press since around 1987, when my booking office went over to APTIS, so my memory could be a bit defective, but I believe that the ribbons were impregnated with carbon, like a typewriter ribbon, rather than inked. I appreciate that's not much help to GWVillager, though. I...

That's a shame. I rode the line over the pass back in 2019, and I was hoping to return sometime next year to do it again. But I don't need to go all the way to Spain to sit on a train in a tunnel!

Does this mean the end of the spectacular broad gauge line over the Pajares pass?

For me... the Greenford branch (with tighter connections onto the eastbound Elizabeth line at West Ealing), and local stations between Marylebone and High Wycombe.

I am, and it doesn't :(

I suggest you contact Vy (https://www.vy.no/en/customer-service/form/tickets-and-travel-info) - they were very helpful, in English, when I raised a query about travelling on the Bergen line. They do seem to understand FIP; I'm retired so now only get a 50% discount rather than a coupon, but they...

More likely to have been Wethered's of Marlow, who were bought out by Strong's in the early 1960s (I think), and thereafter used similar signage. Both breweries later shut by Whitbread, of course.:(