Recent content by Leslie Fletcher

Raising the speed limit on the Carstairs south to east curve.

Thanks for all the suggestions which I will follow up.

Thanks for the prompt response. We have already booked and been allocated three seats in coach B and two in coach J. I have contacted customer services but no response yet. I did a trial booking of five to Inverness and was allocated a table and a seat nearby but I can’t find this on the seat...

I hope this is the most appropriate forum for my query. We are a family of five, four adults and one child travelling north from Kings Cross on a through train to Inverness in a month or so. Two of the adults and the child will alight at Waverley, the other adults will travel through to...

My wife and I often travel by train from Manchester to Galashiels, on our way to visit family in Peebles. The next time we do this, on Sunday 2 April, it will involve a rail replacement bus from Carlisle to Edinburgh, which is likely to pass near to Peebles. Would we be permitted to alight at...

My mother had two uncles, brothers, who were both barbers with premises "in Liverpool Street" in the late 1950s though I don't know whether that meant the station or the roadway outside.

There is said to have been a real Gwyddelan "the little Irishman" after whom Dolwyddelan is named.

Llandudno Junction has a stairs/lifts split footbridge with, I think, no access from one to the other except at the not much used Platform 4 end. If I remember rightly there always were lifts, for parcels &c. Lifts for public use are a fairly recent thing.

I have already done so. All I received was a re-iteration of the original rejection.

About once a month my wife and travel from Manchester where we live to Edinburgh to visit family. Not wanting the hassle of changing trains we book with TransPennine to travel on their through trains, stipulating the time of train on which we intend to travel. When we made this trip in January...

The website of the Friends of Leamington Spa Station has a page devoted to the gardens, though no recent updates as far as I can tell.

The Royal Horticultural Society's "It's Your Neighbourhood" campaign has a section covering stations. The list of awards, which includes 17 stations, in the North West (of England) can be found on the North West in Bloom website. The campaign is organised on a regional basis - a list and links...

Another Khyber Pass, this time in Stockport

… apart, that is, from the ECML!

Once the next station where unfortunately nothing remains of railway interest but a very intriguing name: Joppa