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This coming Friday to Sunday (29th March - 31st March) sees Radio Caroline celebrate their 60th year of broadcasting. From 1964 to 1990 this was as a so called pirate radio station when their boat The Ross Revenge was ship wrecked. Since then they have operated as a legal land based station...

On 1st October a preserved class 31 is to be named Radio Caroline with guest Rick Wakeman both a fan of the radio station and railways. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02qHuuC9SGPoYmWsiiEnARAc9DQ83hoUhWaR72ztxePgp7njJP8ax2q7nxMBohqCYDl&id=100063546345331

I’m on holiday in Australia at the moment in New South Wales, and on my journeys got off the train at ZigZag station which is on the main railway network not a private line or narrow gauge etc. This must surely qualify as one of the smallest stations on a main rail network or does anyone know...

NAMED TRAINS IN THE UK MAY 2023 In 2020 prior to the Covid 19 out break there were 31 named or titled trains in the UK, the Great Western Railway by far had the most with 20. During the Covid 19 period timetables were effectively ripped up or of no use. It was only as 2022 progressed that a...

Back in 2017 on this forum I posted a list of all the named trains running on the network as scheduled trains and with the help of others comments completed it to as accurate list as possible. I also used the Railway Magazine 2012 publication The Encyclopaedia Of Titled Trains which was and...

I have recently bought the latest Rail Guide and for the life of me cannot find the section for Infrastructure Companies where all the DR numbered track machines are. Am I missing something or has it been omitted in the 2022 edition, it was certainly there in the 2020 edition? Thanks.

We are thinking of meeting two family members this coming Saturday (24th) to walk to Blea Moor signal box. Did any go last weekend and if so how busy was it? We are all travelling a long way and don’t want to arrive and find it packed with others doing the same thing. Thanks.

I have just bought a new iPad and it is saying I can transfer everything on my old one to my new one by placing them close together and going through the procedure given. All that is fine as far as I can see. What I am struggling to find out is whether it wipes clean my old iPad or keeps it on...

Looking online it is very easy to find vintage railway posters, but how do you buy more recent posters. For instance the Avanti West Coast ‘Lake District Stay Home Not Oxenholme’ or Virgin Trains ‘Fly To London’. I do not want to know how to buy those specific posters, but generally where can...

Last I heard you could only gain access to the station if you had a valid ticket. Does anyone know if this is still the case?

I hope I am not out of order, but I recently posted a thread entitled Named Trains 2020 https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/named-trains-2020.204689/ specifically to find out if the above two named trains were still running. I think however my thread title understandably invited too wide a...

STOP PRESS.....Since posting this thread I have resolved the issues and have posted further down the up to date list of all UK named trains as of the May 2020 timetable. If I have missed anything observations are welcome....STOP PRESS A few years ago I posted an up to date list of the present...

My internet provider was hit with a cyber attack yesterday and I have been without the internet for about 24 hours. All is ok now and my internet is working fine, except I cannot get onto RealTimeTrain.com. I can’t find anyone else asking the question so suspect it may be at my end, but would...

Until a few days ago whenever I started to type in a location on Real Time Trains it would start to predict which location I wanted and I could click on that saving me typing in the whole word. i.e. if I put in Penr it would come up with, amongst others, Penrith North Lakes. However a few days...

It is nice to see the above rail tour company sponsoring Radio Caroline North this weekend, and advertising the above tour on 7th September. It is not a company I am familiar with but good for them. https://www.nentatraintours.co.uk/train_tour.asp?tour_id=239&tour_pg=1&parent=1

i was watching a video recently that appeared to show a Carlisle to Leeds train being held for a late running Glasgow to Euston express. Would this be correct? I remember it was common practice in the past to do this, but I thought that had largely died out once the penalties for late running...

Following comments made on a separate thread regarding the Settle & Carlisle Line with passengers from Penrith going to Leeds (or West/South Yorkshire) having to travel to Preston or Manchester and then change to Leeds, or drive or taxi to Langwathby 5 miles away (with little or no bus service)...

I have just got home from a journey on the 13.18 Leeds to Carlisle. At Ribblehead a party of what I took to be walkers joined the train. As we approached the viaduct a gentleman who seemed to be the leader of the group gave a brief announcement and the whole group began to sing a song about...

I have a ticket on the 11.33am train from London Kings Cross to Leeds, first class on Wednesday 1st May. That time makes sure I have enough time to do what I need to do in London but once at Leeds I have to then catch a Northern train Carlisle. Unfortunately it’s a poor connection at Leeds...

I am in Glasgow in March and would like to book a hotel room or serviced apartment for one night. Can anyone recommend one that has good views of the station ideally so train numbers can be read, but not essential. Also what room(s) to request?