Recent content by paul1609

Rail only pays something like 11 pence tax per litre on Diesel so the difference on price based on fuel should be negligable.

Just saying: Easyjet Prices for tomorrow/friday

Indeed a few years back I was driving a tank loco and 5 MK1 coaches about 20 mph away from a station stop, coming around a curve I met 2 quad bikes on the track coming the other way. I immediately dropped the vacuum brake and fortunately they managed to get off the track and down the embankment...

When Grand Central started I remember some people claiming that the service to Sunderland wasn't financially viable and that it was really little more than an orcats raid on the ECML south of York with the extension to the Durham Coast to justify it's existence. Has the LNER fares changes meant...

I don't think that many class 92s still have active TVM. It needed an update when HS1 opened and this was only done on the Channel Tunnel locos and a couple of extra were done in 2009 funded by the EU to enable freight to run on HS1. Most of the equipment on the others is obsolete and possibly...

My last train at the K&ESR last week was 15 to 16 degrees unheated @10am. We did put the steam heat up but without it it would have been "coats and jumpers" rather than unbearable or freezing tbh.

My experience of Southern conductors/obs is that if you approach them with a TOD code they will print out the tickets for you.

At a guess its to even up the braking effect throughout the train to reduce snatching and the risk of wheeelflats.

I would suggest that the majority of the people with advances on the wrong train knew exactly what they were doing and that there was little chance they would be penalised. Why buy an expensive advance or flexible ticket when you know you can bluff your way past the onboard staff every time?

Yes and no, it really depends on where your real journey starts and ends. I live on the edge of Romney Marsh in Kent. Going to the coach hubs in London is much the same as a cross London Rail trip. I prefer Golders Green and Finchley Rd because of their proximity to the M1. Victoria for the...

I've really only discovered coaches in retirement largely as a result of sky high prices and industrial action on rail. The coach product is often actually preferable to the cheap rail options. The seats on flixbus for instance are far better than those on a EMR meridian I was on yesterday. My...

I travelled on an EMR service from St Pancras to Sheffield yesterday afternoon. It's was a 5 car dmu and quite full. As far as I could see there was no disruption. I was in coach C on a cross London Advance. When it came to the ticket check it was apparent that about a third of all travellers...

From a farming point of view oil seed rape is very difficult to grow. If birds can land in the middle of the crop due to a flooded part etc they will very quickly work outwards devastating the field and causing far more damage than the original flood.

Bournemouth Interchange is 1.2 miles from the sea front. Theres loads of buses etc. To walk is 27 mins on google maps. Weymouth Station is an extra hour on the train then a 10 min walk to the beach.

Google maps must be out of date then. Must admit I havent been there for a couple of years.