Recent content by Sporty60

Ah, good topic and thanks for the enlightening replies. I live near Paignton where the crossing is adjacent to the station and cuts the main shopping street in half. Obviously safety is the highest priority, but with 5/6 trains per hour arriving or leaving this means the crossing is closed 25%...

As reported by Devon Live what looks like a Class 158 being transported by road has a mishap near Okehampton. Train on lorry gets stuck on Devon's A30 slip road https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/live-train-lorry-gets-stuck-9040020

I'm a relatively new and passive member of this excellent forum so I'm sorry if this question has been raised before. At the next timetable change is it possible or indeed desirable to have different threads for each train company? I realise that there might be some crossover but it would...

Poor, ambiguous headline on BBC News. https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1716771784492540236?t=69nOM8qJhJnFtTNqqVWwQA&s=19

Ah, thank you all, I should have looked more thoroughly!

Six days a week direct trains from Paignton run to Exmouth,but on Sundays they only go to Okehampton. Is there a reason for this? ...and would it be feasible to run a mix to Exmouth or Okehampton weekdays pls?

166217 terminated at Newton Abbot today and off loaded us.

Ah thanks. Human error I suppose.

On days when Exeter City are playing at home as was the case yesterday, some services start and terminate there as opposed to Exeter Central. Yet yesterday the 17.10 to Barnstable appeared to pass a crowded platform and seems to have started at Exeter Central. Coincidentally a seemingly empty 2...

This is a really interesting topic for customers like myself. Thank you to all participants. Such an informative forum!

...and it looks like a Castle class had to step in yesterday pm too.

It'll be a coincidence if strikes are called during Wimbledon I guess,but it does run for 2 weeks of course.

Good points but I'll disagree on the slam doors. Not keen on leaning out to unlatch the door and being on a fairground ride when the door opens all to efficiently with me straddling the window.

Unfortunately the xmas strikes didn't do the trick, now Cheltenham races seems to be the last throw of the dice. The public have got used to the strikes, the NHS have got the public sympathy and this announcement won't make the front pages. The government have held firm and just need to make a...

Thank you for the that.