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St Pancras is three stations operationally: The Thameslink low-level platforms, the EMR platforms and the Southeastern and Eurostar platforms for HS1. Some other dual operation stations that spring to mind: London Bridge, Tamworth, Lichfield Trent Valley, Liverpool Lime Street, Retford, Reading...

Wasn't Bedwyn the last station down the line for Network SouthEast services? If so the current service pattern may be a legacy of that.

Journey planners reply on the completeness of data in the fares database, the timetable database, and the reservations system. If any of those three are deficient then a journey enquiry can fail. Unfortunately, for third-party bus connection (and, to a lesser extent, ferries) the timetable data...

Perhaps the same AI that was used elsewhere to generate an article that suggested the word "Tuesday" was American in origin.

That's the sign I mentioned earlier. 1970s-80s, before BR shut down its parcels conveyance.

Aberystwyth Cliff Railway: Adult single is £7.50, with a return at £8.50. 778 feet long.

Burton-on-Trent is managed by EMR, though it's only served by CrossCountry. Due to CrossCountry not being given any stations at privatisation.

My framed rucksack was aluminium. Wouldn't have wanted the extra weight of the steel!

A large Red Star Parcels sign can still be seen on the upper deck of Euston as you approach from the north. Not sure whether it's still there, but when Paddington was remodeled to re-site the taxi rank and old parcels ramp was opened up, to show a sign saying how many BRUTES it was safe to tow...

On the LM Euston Division in the 1980s the split was... Football charter trains were organised by the football clubs themselves (or the accredited supporters club) and tickets would only be sold to season ticket holders/registered supporters. The organisers would steward the train. Footexes...

Hardly rapid transit, but this funicular operates in Paris, near the Sacré-Cœur, using Metro tickets... (picture of funicular)

The attached photo shows the telegraphic codes for excursions, as they were in 1958... The "Parspec" would be a charter train, with the rest being organised by the railway itself. No Footex back then, but it was certainly in use by the 1970s.

One article in the newspapers this week posited that Russia's economy will collapse completely if the war drags on for another 6-12 months. May be that Ukraine is hoping to hold the Russian forces at bay long enough for that crash to happen, after which it can then reclaim most, if not all, of...

Re the last: as was this country's new ambassador to the USA (alongside his accepting of hospitality from both a Russian oligarch and Jeffrey Epstein).

Network Rail or National Rail?