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Recently we flew from Manchester to Chennai (India) and return. To minimise long airport transfers we flew out via Doha with Qatar and back with BA via Heathrow. What a mistake that was! The Qatar flight was excellent, although the connecting plane to Chennai was considered a short-haul and...

Thinking of staying in Grosmont and of course visiting the NYMR and Whitby. Am put off by the only pub in the village (Station Tavern) having the worst reviews on TripAdvisor I have ever seen for a pub anywhere and am very loth to visit here now. Any comments from locals/enthusiasts/hikers?

Anybody ever used this? I don't see many tourists on the trains when I've been. It's a great meander around the hillsides of Buda, last time I had my ticket "gripped" by a pair of schoolgirls in short socks, although being Hungary it's still really cheap for a novelty railway. A bonus is that...

Discussing with a colleague this morning who said it was a travesty that train drivers are paid over twice what bus drivers are paid -bus drivers have to manoevre their vehicle in conflicting traffic whereas train drivers just have to know when and how to start and stop. I couldn't contradict...

If you buy a ticket in Hungary, is it only valid for a specific train? Am thinking of breaking a journey at a junction station for some lunch and the app doesn't envisage that if buying a through ticket, bizarrely the cost for every journey varies by a few forints.

Just been back to Leeds for a few days and did a few local bus journeys, mostly with First. Generally the buses seemed to be of good quality and a definite improvement was the electronic display of the next stop which was very useful for anyone travelling to a major destination. A First Leeds...

Consider this situation in Cumbria: I go for a day out from Kendal to Keswick with my wife; I am an ENCTS pass holder, but she is not yet eligible. We get on the Stagecoach bus service 555. I show my pass to the driver, he prints out a single zero-fare ticket from Kendal to Keswick and I sit...

At the weekend I went to Cheshire to stay with my son's family, and on Sunday we were going to Manchester to eat out. We took the children aged 9 and 11 in our car. We drove to Sale Water Park and used the Metrolink as the girls had never been on a tram. Finding fare options is however a...

I remember seeing a pair of class 27 diesels on Holbeck shed in Leeds in around 1969. They were Scottish region locos which had been to Derby works to have push-pull equipment fitted, I think. These locos were not allocated to Holbeck so how did they get back to Scotland? Would a class-27...

In a local discussion group, someone reminisced of their grandmother dying in Tebay and her body being put on the train to Shap in order for the funeral and burial to take place (this was in 1947). This sounds extraordinary but I suppose in those days the railways were designated a common...

Our once-a-week bus was suspended during the pandemic, and only reappeared with reduced seating capacity in August. Initially I was reluctant to use it as I have regular access to a car and feared that I might be depriving someone with no alternative from a seat, but that proved groundless as...

I just read some Covid-19 recommendations such that dedicated schools and college services should not be taking any other passengers. Right on cue, two of my local bus services which provided useful links into Kendal during college term-time have changed hands and are now being run by a coach...

Was anybody a member of a railfans club in the 1970s? I'm not talking about "Rail Riders" but groups of individuals who went on prolonged weekend shed bashes by coach. They used to advertise things like "27 depots in East Anglia" when there were only two or three, as they were prepared to turn...

Visiting Crewe Works in the early 1970s there were always one or two class 76 from the Woodhead route in for maintenance. Question is, when they had been through works, was there a short section of 1500dc track within the workd on which they could be tested, or were they simply towed back to...

Bus operators are still running, usually to something approximating a Sunday service, and timetables are enforcing the idea that these services are for essential workers only. OK, but given that lots of elderly people are entitled to free travel with the ENCTS scheme, is anything being done to...

A few years ago I travelled with my late father-in-law to Hungary, and he didn't have to pay any transport fares as he was an OAP resident in the EU. Now it's my turn to be eligible, but now I am no longer an EU citizen as unfortunately I am British and cannot claim entitlement to a passport...

I just found this BBC article from January regards a hunt straying on to railway tracks in Nottinghamshire. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-51010018 They seemed to justify it on the grounds that the line wasn't actually in use. I have certainly read past accounts where...

My Senior Railcard just ran out, completely unused since I bought it a year ago! Thing is, I bought it with £10 of Tesco Clubcard vouchers which I find I don't want to use for much else anyway, and I'd rather have a railcard sitting in my wallet just in case I suddenly want or need to take a...

The GWR had a policy of naming passenger locos after any substantial dwelling, hence Castles, Granges, Halls and Manors. Sometimes they had to go beyond GWR territory, e.g., preserved 6998 Burton Agnes Hall, named after a well-known stately home in East Yorkshire. Locally to me is a village...

Now that bus companies in touristy areas generally have moved on to summer timetables, are there any instances of local routes with only a summer service designated as being "primarily for tourism" and thus denying the use of ENCTS passes? I haven't seen this in Cumbria on the Stagecoach...