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    Special train doing Settle-Carlisle through Lancashire?

    A programme on Channel 4 this evening featured a posh (white linen tablecloth, cocktails, etc) train on the S & C. The accompanying blurb referred to scenic Lancashire, Yorkshire and Cumbria being traversed. I know that Lancashire had an eastern expansion some time ago, gaining Barnoldswick for...
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    Penmanship tunnel collapse anniversary

    Appropriately on St Patrick's Day, as a lot of Irishmen would have helped build it, today is the 43rd anniversary of the collapse of Penmanshiel tunnel, which killed and entombed two men working inside in the early hours. So let's remember Peter Fowler aged 21 and Gordon Turnbull aged 33.
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    Changes to ECML north of Newcastle: suggestion from East Lothian Community Rail Partnership

    This is the substance of a letter to the current issue of the local paper from the chair of East Lothian Community Rail Partnership, in reply to a previous one claiming that HS2 to Leeds would not benefit people in Scotland: With stations at East Linton and Reston still not having been...
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    Plusbus

    I wonder if someone knows the answer to this. If I buy a return from say Edinburgh to Manchester, and only on arrival at Piccadilly do I decide to use local buses*, can I then buy a local Plusbus ticket at the booking office on the strength of the train ticket which I already have, possibly just...
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    Advance ticket but only part of journey nominated

    I have an advance single Manchester to Edinburgh with the only nominated train/reservation being on a Virgin train from Preston. Can I use any train from Manchester to Preston? The most convenient will be a TPE which happens to go to Edinburgh, OK if I change in Preston onto the designated one?
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    Changing in London

    With an advance ticket "Dunbar to London Undergrnd Zones 1-2" I'll be arriving at Kings Cross at 13.49 on a Friday, needing to catch a departure at 14.50 from Paddington, i.e. with lots of time. Two questions on the KX to Padd journey: 1. Is the easiest connection still the westbound...
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    Query about Yelloway bus service

    After deregulation there was a fairly short-lived Yelloway service between Bolton and Leeds, possibly numbered 503. Does anyone know the period over which it operated? I used in once to attend the funeral of an ex-colleague at Lawnswood Crematorium and it would be helpful to establish the year.
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    Central Scotland Rover

    I've not seen this referred to here, but have just noticed a significant worsening of the details on the Scotrail site. There has been a modest increase in price, £1.75 with railcard, but the availability is now any three consecutive days rather than, as before, any three in a run of seven. I...
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    Query: time of travel with Anytime Day Single

    When I travel between North Berwick and Edinburgh on a weekday it is nearly always off-peak, so the appropriate ticket is an Off-Peak Day Return (£6.80 discounted by 50% with an E Lothian concession card). This £3.40 ticket is not available at the station machine. Sometimes, the conductor...
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    Preston barrier-free?

    I came across a reference somewhere a while ago that there were no ticket barriers at Preston. Is this still so?
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    Why this one-off inter-station time?

    For many years, the last weekday and Saturday trains to North Berwick have been allowed about 20 minutes from Drem, while all others on those days and throughout Sunday show about 10 minutes. I assume that it's some kind of fiddle to avoid late-running penalties, but can't see how it works if...
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    SESCOT website address

    Does anyone have the address of the South Eastern Scotland bus forum, otherwise known as SESCOT? I've searched without success, and a couple of supposed addresses come up unavailable.
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    Whereabouts of signal box diagram

    I know that the wall-mounted diagram from Lostock Junction box, a couple of miles west of Bolton, was presented to the museum at the East Lancs Railway about 15 years ago. Does anyone know if it's still there, or its whereabouts if not?
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    Query re. Balfron

    Maybe someone knows this - does the basic hourly FSE B10 Glasgow - Balfron run on as the B12 Balfron - Stirling, and vice versa, as suggested by the 2 minute gap in Balfron in each direction? If so, it would make a circular journey which I have in mind not dependent on such a tight connection.
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    How authentic was this?

    BBC's recent two-part train robbery programmes showed a couple of what seemed to me to be odd touches in the reconstruction. The train, supposedly on the WCML was running on the right-hand line, and the advance signal was at track level. Could these actually have been the case in 1963?
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    2014 fares

    If the NRE website gives a fare for a journey on a particular date, is that bound to be the case, if there will be a fares revision in the meantime? All North Berwick-Edinburgh fares on (for example) 15 January are shown as the same as the current ones, which seems to say clearly that there will...
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    Another Club 55 query

    Scotrail's Club 55 conditions include not using Mon-Fri any train leaving Haymarket or Waverley between 16.43 and 18.10 - does it make any difference if you're already on a train which contravenes this but was OK on joining? Specifically, I'd like to take the 15.50 from Glasgow Central which is...
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    Club 55 query

    Scotrail's Club 55 ticket is a flat-rate (£19) return between any two stations in Scotland. I would like to travel from Edinburgh to Stranraer but return from Girvan - would this be permitted? Apart from time-of-day restrictions which wouldn't apply, the only prohibition shown on the website is BOJ.
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    Wakefield freecitybus

    I know that this runs every 10 minutes and goes round the city centre clockwise, so that on it Westgate station is a long way from the bus station, but I can't find a detailed timetable. Does anyone know how long this journey will take? I could walk directly but will be rather burdened, so would...
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    Bow Road to Waterloo

    From Bow Road to Waterloo mainline, the options are District to Embankment then Bakerloo or Northern, or District to Westminster then Jubilee. Is one of the three any easier than the others?

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