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    Castles and (Lower)Quadrants - Friday 1 March

    A trip to the SW to check out the Castle HSTs, take a look at the Cornwall main line with its surviving GW signalling, and sample Pullman dining had been in the back of my mind for some years, during which time Okehampton had reopened (last visited in 1971). Then the news of the drastic...
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    Castles during Truro resignalling

    Good evening all. I shall be in Bath at the end of February, and am contemplating a trip to Lostwithiel/Par before the boxes close. As there are no trains between St Austell and St Erth that week, and a revised service west of Plymouth, what are my chances of getting a Castle? My suspicion is...
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    French Rail, September 2023

    Spun-off from my recent Nice and Back Trip Report: 1. The TER networks (and local bus services) I observed have been transformed in the last few years, but the PACA (Provence-Alpes-Côte dAzur) network seems to be a victim of its own success, with trains along the Grasse-Ventimiglia route...
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    Alpes-Maritimes France new ticket.

    From my Nice trip report - I think it belongs here, so it doesn't get lost. The Region has introduced a number of one-day passes which can be bought at the ordinary SNCF TER machines. However, there is also a seasonal* 3/7/14-day Pass Explore valid on all local public transport in...
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    Nice and back.

    We'd never visited the area properly (work meant that main holidays were in high summer) so it was high time for an early autumn break. All neatly planned - two nights in Turin on the way out, then over the Col de Tende route to Nice, and return via Dijon (which we'd not visited when we were...
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    Heritage Railway Advance Booking Fees

    I was surprised recently to discover that the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Railway uses a third-party ticketing site that adds a booking fee per ticket if you book in advance. Are there other heritage railways that do this? Thanks in advance. Note - I am not asking for anyone's views on booking...
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    TGV seat selection at TVM?

    Does anyone know if you can select your seat when using a TVM in France. Specifically this is to buy Interrail reservations - you can't select your seats online via b-europe/Interrail JP :( Thanks in advance.
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    Shipley to Schleswig (or Hammstrasse to Hamm?) - and back again.

    En-route to Münster today and Schleswig tomorrow despite DB digging at Aachen. An interesting day, starting on the 0850 Shipley-KGX, which entertained us by running on the Down Fast for a while after Huntington, picking up a few minutes' delay in the process. In view of comments on the last ES...
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    Sicily and back March 2023 pt3

    This is the "and back" bit. We were tight for time, so settled for 24h in Genoa plus overnight sleeps in Civitavecchia and Chambery. Genoa is a fascinating city, with excellent public transport including a rack line (which we didn't ride as the timetable had been changed and didn't fit)...
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    Sicily and back March 2023 pt 2

    This was a holiday trip incorporating a few nights in Florence and a rail-based organised tour of Sicily which had been postponed in March 2020. For the next 10 days we were in the capable hands of the PTG tour leaders. It was firmly culture-orientated, with rail travel basically to get us...
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    Sicily and back March 2023 - part 1

    This was a holiday trip incorporating a few nights in Florence and a rail-based organised tour of Sicily which had been postponed in March 2020. Having received clearance from medical authorities (my wife is immunocompromised) and obtained travel insurance we were finally able to book at the end...
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    NR Shipley platform extensions application

    https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/23411402.work-planned-extend-platforms-district-rail-stations/ Burley and Menston are also mentioned but they are straightforward. P2 (Down Skipton) isn't mentioned as there is no easy option there - it will have to be SDO. P4 work will allow LNER to...
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    Ballast advice

    The tedious task of ballasting the main lines on Charmouth is well under way (the classic way, using diluted PVA glue - and discovering that you can adjust the alignment afterwards by wetting the area again, which I didn't know). Next up are the goods yard and loco yard - any thoughts and...
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    All Creatures Great and Small #2

    The thread from the first series is locked so a new one. Channel 5 have obviously increased their budget for this second series - tonight's episode (filmed at Keighley) had 3 working locos (TVR 85, 52044, (4)5596, plus (4)3924 not in steam, and a host of extras. Not to mention a number of...
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    TGV signalling - how is the driver informed of their actual route?

    My daughter is currently on the afternoon AVE Madrid-Avignon(-Marseille) which was misrouted at the Avignon triangle and is currently sat North of Orange (there are loops and crossovers there, first after the junction!) waiting for the train to reverse and head back South (minimum +60 so delay...
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    Tech support request

    Don't know whether this belongs here, but I can't find a tech support area... Since yesterday Chrome on my Samsung tablet has been saying "the site has redirected you too many times" Turning off and on, clearing cookies and cache, and typing the address manually, haven't worked. No other of my...
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    Musical subway and footbridge.

    No, not buskers, but classical music (Mozart/Haydn?) coming over the PA in the subway and on the covered footbridge at Shipley. Not noticed this before, but it's ages since I used either facility. Is this a Northern thing, and is there a reason other than making my wait between trains more...
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    IoM Sail Rail - how to book, an update.

    Mods - not exactly a Trip Report but move it there if you prefer. Having just booked a week on Man (first ever) I was startled at the Steam Packet Co's full fare of £241 for 2 (return) - though the car fare is much worse! - but spotted a reference on their website to our old friend Sail Rail...
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    E-tickets, especially SNCF - answered!

    Eurostar (for example) specifically say you can show their e-ticket on your phone. SNCF still say that you have to print them out - does anyone have recent experience as to whether that still applies? Thanks in advance. Sorry - just looked in SNCF's FAQs: "If you do not have a printed...
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    CZ/SK Advice please

    Hi all, and especially people like @Shredder who know the railways in Czechia and Slovakia! I'm heading there next month with an Interrail. Most of the trip is planned, but I'm toying over two routes that have a bit of loco haulage and are new track for me: SK Presov-Humenne (only 1tpd not a...

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