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It's been a busy start to the year with two major overseas trips so I'm a bit late creating this thread. I'll do January and February as one combined post: JANUARY My January 2024 UK rail photos are here: https://mktom.smugmug.com/2024/January-2024/UK-Rail-January-2024 This includes: Saturday...

My January 2023 rail photos are here: https://mkttransportphoto.smugmug.com/2023/January-2023/UK-Rail-January-2023 This includes: Saturday 7 January - A quick ride on the Birmingham Airport people mover (soon to be replaced with a new one to the HS2 Interchange) for my trip to Belfast...

My January 2022 rail photos are here: https://mkttransportphoto.smugmug.com/2022/January-2022/UK-Rail-January-2022/ This includes: Saturday 1 January - A day in Chester, going via Crewe. Friday 7 January - A few photos from a morning visit to London, with an unexpected Avanti stop at Leighton...

Obviously a slow start to this year given the inability to travel right now, but it'll pick up later in the year :) My January 2021 Rail photos are here: https://mkttransportphoto.smugmug.com/2021/January-2021/UK-Rail-January-2021 This includes: Tuesday 5 January - Class 37 no. 37800 brings a...

I appreciate the Class 68 diagrams don't show up as such in TRUST, but if any Chiltern people can tell me if there'll be any 68-hauled sets out in service tomorrow (given we're in Covid timetables) that'd be really helpful.

I ordered a copy of the new edition of S. K. Baker's marvellous UK Rail Atlas back in September 2018, when it was due to come out in a matter of weeks. To date it still hasn't been released. Amazon periodically sends me an email saying the publication date has been moved, but it never comes...

I've been a long time user of this website, which is sadly no longer updated: http://www.bueker.net/trainspotting/maps.php Is anyone aware of a site offering maps comparable to the ones on this site? By which I mean up to date maps showing gauges and electrification voltages together like...

My January 2020 Rail photos are here: https://mkttransportphoto.smugmug.com/2020/January-2020/UK-Rail-January-2020/ This includes: Friday 3 January - A day out on a West Midlands Daytripper, visiting Coventry, Birmingham and Stourbridge. Sunday 5 January - Photos from the Rushden area...

I'm hoping to plan a trip to ride and photo some of the GWR Class 143s before they go in December. Can anyone confirm for me what normal weekday diagrams they operate? Also when are displaced 150s likely to arrive to replace them? Many thanks.

I visited the Barton on Humber line earlier this week and it occurred to me that you need to make two changes to get from stations on that line to London. How many places are there in the UK where this is the case? Stations on the national network where two or more changes of train are required...

I'm trying to tick off the Canterbury-Margate and Folkestone-Margate lines. I'm travelling on a return from London Victoria to Margate on Sunday 18 August. Can I take either of these lines on that ticket? i.e. travel via Ashford and either Canterbury or Dover. If not, is there any way I can...

Given I'll be attending the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway for their DMU gala on Sunday 17 March, I reached out to the Steeple Grange Light Railway to see if they'd be willing to run a service that day for those of us travelling from afar who'd like to do both railways in one. Somewhat to my...

I noticed looking at this photo that the pantograph cas on the Class 710s are arranged so the pantograph end is adjacent to the driving car: https://mkrail.smugmug.com/MiltonKeynesRailways/2018/Milton-Keynes-Area-November-2018/i-CpRV45n/A Typically 4-car EMUs have the pantograph in the centre...

Does anyone on here have any contacts at the metre gauge steam museum at Irchester near Wellingborough? I've wanted to visit it for years but there doesn't seem to be any updated website and my attempts to reach out to the email addresses I've found have gone nowhere. It's a really interesting...

So instead of doing monthly threads I'm just going to post all my new uploads in this one thread from now on! August kicked off with a visit to the Leighton Buzzard Narrow Gauge Railway. Photos are here, along with two photos from Fenny Stratford station...

So far this month the UK Rail gallery has photos from my return journey from Heathrow via Paddington on TfL Rail after my trip to California on the 8th, a day in London on the 17th, and a day visiting the STEAM Museum in Swindon on the 21st. All three can be seen here...

Bit late starting this thread, but here are the trips I've done this month: Saturday 9 June - A visit to the newly opened station at Kenilworth, travelling via Coventry: https://mkttransportphoto.smugmug.com/2018/June-2018/UK-Rail-June-2018/ Sunday 10 June - Photos from the 'Sopwith Camel'...

I received this odd response from Wessex Bus today responding to a complaint I made about a driver's reaction to being photographed: "Thank you for contacting Wessex Bus with regards to the incident on the 10/06/2018 in Bicester Village. I have reviewed your complaint with Management, the...

I'm trying to plan a journey next Friday (the 13th) from Stockholm to Norrkoping and back. The SJ website is giving me a different fare for every individual train. I realise there are two operators to chose from and High Speed, Intercity and Regional options within SJ's fares, but even different...

First post from May includes two photos from Bedford on Tuesday 1st and a third from London later the same day, followed by three pages worth of photos from a trip to the Didcot Railway Centre on Saturday 5th. https://mkttransportphoto.smugmug.com/2018/May-2018/UK-Rail-May-2018 Some video of...