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So was the bright idea of having possession on East Coast Main line Tuesday (16th.) & Wednesday (17th.) instead of a weekend a success? I went with LNER Doncaster to Kings Cross Tuesday morning, it was OK and I knew we had the extra time to do the detour. Returning from Kings Cross about 18-30...

1669595435 Anyone know why these are here in the sidings behind Knottingley Station.

Just a question for our knowledgeable members, can you use a free travel ( ex. BR pass ) on North London Line? since it used to be a BR service in the past. Is it like the Tyneside Metro arrangements for free travel?

Does anyone know what the outcome was for these contracts that was tendered for and should have started around September 2021 as unable to find any information as to who the new contractors are.

Who let Aldi make that advert on a station down south with the school teacher trying to take the school kids pictures on a photo me kiosk. The children at the end of the queue are not that far from the passing train and if she was a proper teacher she would have had another responsible person...

While out last week I saw a black & white check sign ( no words on it ) fasten to a bridge just the same as the red and white sign No Refuge sign, What does this one mean? Been looking on internet and can,t find it, looked in RBI signs catalouge and didn,t see it there. It looked quite new so...

Was there ever a coach from the Budd Car Company tested on the railways here? was thinking it would be about 60 years ago? I remember travelling in a coach from Newcastle to Edingburgh and think it might have been a prototype coach.

After having a close up look the other day at a TPE class 68 locomotive at Scarborough while it was shut down ( they are very noisy beast when running ) I noticed inside the engine compartment a wood brake stick as used to pin down the brake leavers on old railway wagons. What is the this used...

On yesterday days 05-37 from Doncaster to Kings Cross it was 15 + mins late leaving and ended up with coach " F " lock out of use till Peterborough and so we had no access to the Buffet car. It was announced that we was awaiting cleaners but my phone app said due to person been taken ill? What...

Save a lot of time and messing about and get rid of all seat reservations and if your ticket is for that train then thats the train you have to be on and just find a seat. Its actually un fair if someone has bought a ticket months in advance and paid very little for there ticket as against...

An East Coast train at Doncaster heading South the other evening. Where did I leave that loco and how did it get here.

Passed by yesterday and saw this unit there, looks like its now ready for a paint job

What's happened to the new signalling between Hull and Gilberdyke? It as supposed to be up and running after the 3 day Easter weekend shutdown. Whose mess up was this the contractor or Network Rail and who will be paying for the mess up?

Yesterday I noticed there was quite a few East Coast sets running round with broken windows in the coaching stock, large coach windows with protective film over them and even a coach door window on a 225 set with a hole through it. Was this due to the cold weather or have the kids been...

Yesterday ( 20th February 2018 ) between Finsbury Park station and Kings Cross stations on the west side of the track we passed a Greater Anglia electric loco and rake of coaches heading slowly in a North direction any idea where they was heading as it was about 9-30 am. They did look vey smart...

Who unlocks the station to give the passengers access on a Saturday so they can get onto the platforms for the train,s.? Is this the only railway station locked up in this way ? any more like it.

What do people think about split ticketing? Martin Lewis the money saving expert is plugging it on his latest blog. Is it as good and easy as he makes out in his blog? what do others think of it and the pit falls of it.

Any one know when the new footbridge and lifts across Lincoln High Stree will be totally finished? The steps are now open , but the lifts are not working as yet and there is still a lot to finnish off yet in the surrounding area,s and buildings. Not bad going as it was supposed to have...

Who does all the old MK1 parcel vans at Hellifield belong to? they look as if they have been there for quite a long time now.

I see under the New Years upgrading of the signalling etc in the North & North East Lincolnshire area that the Little London AHB crossing is no more. This crossing was installed in approximately 1958 after a an accident at the crossing in 1957 resulting in a death of motorcyclist and injuries...