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  1. CockneySparrow

    My idea for compulsory e-tickets tickets before travel

    Imagine being on a train where the signal is poor and the passenger trying for 10 minutes to get the e ticket and the guard waiting next to them, wouldnt be ideal
  2. CockneySparrow

    Spalding

    Yeah I was solely looking at passenger trains, makes it even more frustrating for a passenger when freight trains can run and passenger ones cant I sometimes go to Lincoln but the situation does deter me going more often than I am forced to
  3. CockneySparrow

    Blyth & Fleetwood potential reopenings?

    If the Fleetwood line was to reopen and there wasnt any further paths between there and Preston they could do the popular "split train" method thats used with the obvious split at Poulton Personally I dont think it would happen as with the electrification the points have been removed and...
  4. CockneySparrow

    Spalding

    East Midlands Railway still adverises last train to Lincoln is 16.46 and last one from Lincoln arriving at 16.55 no more trains after that
  5. CockneySparrow

    Spalding

    Had a feeling thats what they are doing but wasnt sure as there appears to be no obvious place on the main platform for the other lift It also looks like there will be access from the housing estate platform 2 side of the station, not sure why they have put supports on the broken bridge steps...
  6. CockneySparrow

    Spalding

    Anyone know what work they are doing They are doing some work on the disused platform, they have dug a massive hole and placed steel supports to stop earth slipping Also therr are supports put on the derelict bridge
  7. CockneySparrow

    Freight movements at Knighton Junction (Leicester)

    If it helps the drivers call the line "the alps" past Coalville
  8. CockneySparrow

    Greater Anglia PBoro to Ipswich service abandoned

    I heard CC want money to stop at Manea and Whittlesey but GA dont want to pay them
  9. CockneySparrow

    Greater Anglia PBoro to Ipswich service abandoned

    Indeed, the first goal is for your company to run the 2 hourly service #smallsteps
  10. CockneySparrow

    Hubberts Bridge platform removed

    Interesting that there is a replacement bus in the morning to Sleaford for Grantham which also calls at Swineshead half an hour after the train has stopped there The afternoon you have to go to Boston then come back again
  11. CockneySparrow

    Hubberts Bridge platform removed

    Could they be taking one line out making it single in that area, I am sure its single near there and only doubles just before the station
  12. CockneySparrow

    Hubberts Bridge platform removed

    Is there anybody get on there, thought there was only 1 train a day stop there
  13. CockneySparrow

    Rail Bus Service Peterborough - Dereham

    Not available anymore only tickets to LNER stations now There was a strange one as well years ago from Downham Market to Swaffham which took you on the train to Ely, then Ely to Peterborough for the X1 bus from there to Swaffham
  14. CockneySparrow

    Rail Bus Service Peterborough - Dereham

    Other ones I know of is another Peterborough one this time Stagecoach X4 to Corby, you can also buy through tickets to St Ives in Cambridgeshire Then we have a big one Stagecoach X5 Cambridge, St Neots, Bedford, Milton Keynes to Oxford
  15. CockneySparrow

    Rail Bus Service Peterborough - Dereham

    Yes Kings Lynn to Hunstanton you can buy through tickets and with a network railcard as well There used to be fares for Sandringham and Heacham but think they arent available anymore Also there was through tickets to Burnham Market and Wells Next Sea but you cant buy them online any longer...
  16. CockneySparrow

    Delay Repay on a Rover

    Can you claim delay repay on Anglia Plus ticket for 1 hour late, if so what do you get back
  17. CockneySparrow

    Sleaford Loop

    Just wondering if anything uses the Sleaford avoiding line, some stuff still runs through station according to real time trains
  18. CockneySparrow

    Brandon (Suffolk)

    Friends of Brandon Station wanted to make use of them again but found working with GA difficult, I think the gist of the problem is they wanted to Friends of Brandon to renovate them at their time and cost once the job was complete they were gonna knock the volunteers out
  19. CockneySparrow

    Brandon (Suffolk)

    Perhaps not for now
  20. CockneySparrow

    Brandon (Suffolk)

    Firends of Brandon Station was gonna do something with them but they found it impossible working with GA and have since dissolved The buildings in question have been in that state for at least 30 years if not more, god knows what they are like inside Since they have been forced to rent new...

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