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With the report into the Peckham incident, recent strandings at Victoria and on the ECML and GWML, is it time that Network Rail developed a rescue unit that would allow rapid de-training in these incidents - ideally within an hour. Adapting a unit like a 153 to have wide doorways with...

Hi all. I am planning to travel from Ipswich to Penzance via the GWR sleeper. I can get an advance ticket for the single trip but the online TOC sites put me onto the last possible Anglia train then a short connection across London. For this routing would I be fixed with an advance to a...

Hi all, I've managed to wangle five days off in November using my last two days of holiday, so I'm planning a trip to the South-West. I want to try and photograph as many of the 143s as I can, plus the last couple of 166s I need - so factoring in some time at Cardiff, Bristol and Exeter. But...

While some long for mileage and others for haulage, for me it is all about the photos and my goal at present is to try and tick off the entire Northern fleet before the new stock arrives and older stock is consigned to the scrap heap at the end of 2019. I had ticked off the 333, 332, 321, 153...

Having got my tickets for the September event, I dug out a scanner and my photos from that event. Not the best quality, don't believe I kept the negatives so they are just scanned from 6x4 prints. I also seemed to miss out a lot of interesting locomotives. Still worth having as most of the in...

So I'm using up my remaining holiday allowance with a four day mini-break from 10th December. A few years ago we did a short tour, entirely by train from the UK, down to Zurich, Vienna and Bratislava, returning via Salzburg and Munich, which was really good fun including two sleeper trains...

Hi all, Arriving into Wales for a week of climbing and got the Sunday free, so fancy a day out on a little train. We've been on the Devil's Bridge and the Llanberis Lake Railway. Looked at the Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland, but they don't have many services, so you end up sat on the train...

Hello, Just a quick one. I am travelling from Steeton & Silsden to Birmingham next week. Advance tickets not much saving and need flexibility for the return. Off-peak ticket is available for trip departing after 9.30, but there is a train departing Steeton at 09.28 or so. If I...

Hi all, I booked an impulsive weekend away to Lithuania over the bank holiday. Flight times worked well and I had never heard of it before, so why not... :lol: It is mostly a sight seeing trip, but we are staying near the station so should find some time to wander down. I have found...

Big news today that newly crowned F1 World Champion Nico Rosberg has announced his retirement from F1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/38185846 I wonder if he is leaving F1 or motorsport in general? Lots of other places for a driver to go, FIA WEC, Formula E and DTM would all be viable...

Hi all, Just a quick one, I have booked a Keighley to Heathrow T.5 advance ticket (2 pax with a 2T railcard) and the itinerary planner has scheduled me on a Heathrow Express from Paddington. I know they have their own ticketing systems and are not in the NRCoC so I just wanted to check if...

So a mere 3 and a half years after my 6 day UK railtour, I have finally gotten around to sorting through the photos and telling the full story. So, to start with we need to go back to 2002 when between Lower and Upper Sixth form years I got a 7 Day All Line Rover and took my first solo...

Hi all, My good lady has had the idea of modelling a small London station in the Victoria era (reading about the Necropolis railways). It sounds like a fun project but I don't fancy kit building any steam engines, coaches and wagons and the scenery are fine. So just wondering if there were...

I managed to get a full day of photography in London in mid-2014 giving me my largest single day's railway photo haul, so I have put off processing the photos until now. Unfortunately I didn't record the RTT pages from the day, so not got a record of most of the workings, just the freight and...

I am trying to photograph all of the Northern Rail stock, before the new Arriva livery comes in (not something they seem to be hurrying) and the big stock change over occurs in about 2019. I've got a little while yet, but only get to go out and play occasionally in between work and studies. I...

Sorting out visa for Iran meant two trips to London in July and plenty of time for railway photos. 4th July featuring plenty of Clapham Junction action - https://www.flickr.com/photos/r-t-c/sets/72157669400786183 11th July featuring Ealing Broadway with GWR sets and Class 800 test, plus 68...

With the impending demise of the classic semaphores at Barnetby I had to make one last trip there. Despite a rainy start, it was a good day with a handful of 60s and some varied 66 traction. The full gallery of 70 photos is here -...

Hi all, If holidays come to plan, might be able to get away to Poland over the bank holiday weekend and going to visit Gdansk from Warsaw. I see the service is listed as an EIP, which I assume are the Pendolinos. Just wondering what the benefits of first class are on Polish Railways, do...

There is nothing worse as a casual traveller having to walk up and down a train to find one unreserved seat, only for half of the reserved seats to be unused. I assume most unused seats are ones booked with purchase of open ticket where the traveller has decided to take another service. I...

A few hours on a damp Monday afternoon at Stafford - my first train watching trip in a while: Bagged some 390s and 221s I need, but I won't bore you with those, here are the highlights: 68003 working ballast wagons through Stafford by Timothy Young, on Flickr 70018 leads 66512 on...