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How many of you can remember when each individual station had its own landline telephone number? And staff to answer when you rang? Not that they were always intelligible, or had any useful or accurate information to impart.

I think the line from Edinburgh to Aberdeen is still closed, with LNER saying "no current estimate for reopening". Does anyone have any info on the chances of services running by Saturday 30th December, afternoon? Thanks

"If you are afraid of the wolves, keep out of the woods"...(Joseph Stalin). Or, indeed, off the trains. As many are choosing. (Sorry Mods! Above point noted!)

Yes, let's run a railway with no passengers, it'll be so much more efficient, and cleaner, and less smelly!! See how we managed to get rid of those pesky parcels services years ago - anything is possible if you try!!

And there we go again. I have a friend whose 18 year old son went into town on a bus, got drunk, came back and couldn't wait to pee, so went down the side of a building site, not seeing the Police car parked there. The Police officers decided to threaten him with a charge of indecent exposure...

All he did was catch a blooming train! It shouldn't have been £20, or £100, or £1000. My aunt used to use the train for fairly regular shopping trips back in the 90s. If things then were as they are now, she'd be in jail! The railway withdrew station staff and ticket offices to save money, then...

Good point, but if the wheels start going backwards Casey Jones style, you've definitely overdone it! (I know....they wouldn't....)

Thanks for the replies. Even as a youngster watching Casey Jones I think I grasped that if the wheels were going round in reverse, they weren't likely to be doing much stopping of the train, and what I was seeing was probably more for dramatic effect. However, my understanding from the replies...

The You Tube algorithm proved (once again) its terrifying accuracy by suggesting I might be interested in a clip from the classic 1950s American black-and-white TV series, Casey Jones. But this prompted a long lost memory, that when Casey needed to bring the Cannonball Express to a sudden stop...

I'm not sure how the road network fits with this theory.

Are you really talking about Simon Jenkins, author of Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations? Not everyone on this forum lives in a railway bubble, but directing invective and abuse towards someone like Jenkins sounds like a distorted view of the world to me.

Does 4.8% of freight carried sound particularly vital to you? Vigorous, expanding, innovative and fully playing to its environmental advantages, with many companies queueing up to invest in infrastructure? Or marginal and in decline? Trains full and standing in an era of unprecedented...

The prevailing assumption of participants on this forum is that railways are important. I think there are significant indications that as far as the general public and the government are concerned, this is no longer the case. Disintegration and fragmentation through privatisation (meaning for...

Thanks! Will travel hopefully......or will travel, hopefully!

Given that strikes are due 24th to Tues 27th Dec, and in light of any knock-on effects of Xmas engineering, how likely does the panel think it seems that Northern trains will have recovered some equilibrium and be trundling reliably between Chester and Altrincham 3pm to midnight on Wed 28th...

There are only 12 musical notes in Western music. In the 1980s there was a band who spotted the inevitable consequence of this limitation, they called themselves Pop Will Eat Itself. And it has.

It gets you drunk and doesn't challenge the taste buds or require thought. And people have heard of it, because of the adverts.

I really have no idea what I'm talking about here, but bear with. I recall that Teletext was provided by "piggybacking" on to redundant capacity in a standard TV signal. Are there rail systems (track circuits? signalling cables? electrification infrastructure? etc) that could, if the will was...

Trump might feel he has to run for President come what may, as a strategy to maximise his chances of deflecting any prosecution / legal action he might face. The (false) accusation that he is subject to a witch hunt will be ramped up by his status as a candidate.

And with tiresome predictability, Ms Lake has tweeted that the result is "BS". I wonder if she would have expressed any concern if she had been declared the winner??