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Just watching The Book Thief on Film 4 set in Germany 1939 Who can name the Steam Train loco and the Station used in filming?

TPE New trains CAF Class 397 will have 4 toilets onboard the 5 carriages. The Loco Hauled fleet will also have 4 toilets onboard the 5 carriages. The Hitachi 803 will have 5 toilets onboard the 5 carriages.

The internal Railway telephony infrastructure from the BR days is called Railnet and all Stations, network rail and signal boxes were/are connected. There has been no investment in bringing this Infrastructure into the 21st century and will no longer be a supported product. Railnet users have...

The revenue block at Preston is primarly aimed at the 08.58 Virgin trains departure to London Euston. Staff were targeting and taking exception to users boarding this service at Preston with an off-peak ticket from Lancaster to Euston. An off peak ticket from Lancaster is valid on trains...

Realtime trains is working at Scotrail. A fix to the web filtering resolved it. It wasn't a conspiracy to block the website. Could we get this post closed as its not wifi related anymore

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Yes Heard at MCO Oxford Road that Northern are saying 10 million extra seats per year.

There is a female Site support engineer at Ardwick Depot

In order to get onto CCF you either need to be on the Network rail network, or access it via Network Rail's Gateway. This has two-factor authentication and you need an RSA token. This makes it more secure than what is implied.

TPE advise 3 hours for Manchester Airport. Bear in mind its about another 15 minutes to get to the actual check in desks. As PDQ said TPE do prioritise the rail replacement for people travelling to the airport. Always seek help from station staff ( or help point for unmanned stations) first...

Poulton le Flyde direct to London? Keith Harris will be happy! I sat opposite him once and I asked him where Orville was and he said in the bag on the seat next to him. Was he avoiding a ticket for the daft duck? LOL P.S How many other Celebs would benefit from this new service?

I also made use of this at Piccadilly on Monday. Did both Upper Crust and Cafe Riattza upstairs. Thought it would be over the top to then do Pumpkin at Oxford Road and Dominos on Oxford Road , but I do know someone who has done it. 2 years ago it was better when it was free for the same deal...

I would say Ashburys on the way into Manchester Piccadilly looks a right dump, probably because of the lovely view of the rubbish dump and the overgrown platforms. The rubbish dump been the recycling plant and not The Etihad.:lol: Ardwick also looks pretty poor but might get spruced up if...

350401 will have its inaugural run with VIP passengers on 12th December leaving Preston at 11:28.

For all you train spotters TPE have a Class 350 running between Preston and Carlisle today for Driver training. Its got the Midland Livery on it as it is only leased, it's not one of the new class 350/4.