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I've driven past this for years and wondered what it is. Just on the east side of the Carnforth to Bentham line, not far from the platforms, there is a tall thin building, in dressed stone, almost Gothic revival style with a big tall chimney. It looks like a mock Gothic signal box. Is it? If...

This crossing is south of the loops and sidings just south of the Royal Border Bridge at Berwick upon Tweed. It is a very minor road with virtually no traffic. There is a foot crossing controlled by gates and red/green lights with a siren and vehicle crossing which is operated only by a rail...

In The Road to Little Dribbling, Bill Bryson, whom I enjoy a lot, describes being on Preston Station and being told his train would divide front 4 to Blackpool, rear 4 to Kendal (well Windermere, obviously). It bothers me every time I listen to the CD. I guess this was about 2011. Would this...

Ages ago a conductor on a train we were on announced the next stop as "the vast sprawling metropolis of Rowlands Castle". I've just seen someone on here refer to Long Buckby in similar terms. Is this simply convergence of humour or is it a railway staff "in" joke when referring to any modest...

Passing through Brampton this morning (by car!) Mrs S remarked that she was surprised local stations had survived. I replied that actually the area we know (Erewash Valley) was the exception as it had kept its line (obvs.) but lost all its local stations - nothing between Trent Junction and...

Renewed on line as I'm planning to emerge from COVID isolation. Works really well, I'm impressed. Really easy to upload the photo too. However the card does not bear the photo. Is this right? Why did they want a photo? Please tell me train managers won't be expecting a nice likeness of me...

Portslade this afternoon. Brighton bound train went through, barriers went up, one flash of the amber light and red wig-wags kept going. Surprisingly no one chanced the crossing (which of course I'd never dream of doing even if it meant parking up and phoning). We turned round so don't know...

A friend of ours lives in Hepscott backing on to the single line. She has just assured the family that I was certain to know what this is. https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U41238/2021-07-24/detailed Could they be testing the level crossing? (AHB I think.) Apparently just...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/welland-harringworth-bennerley-viaduct-s.215676 I suppose I am not the only person who wonders if BR closed the wrong line and station in Nottingham.

Could we not have a national system for SDO that actually works properly? What I have in mind is something like the RFID systems in shops and credit cards along the length of the platform and detectors on the train. I know there isn't an off the shelf solution but in the medium term the RFID...

I've just (via the app, cannot face the machine) bought an Arnside to Preston (Lancs) off peak return. Why is it routed via Lancaster? I cannot see any other viable route. Mrs S suggests it is to exclude via Skipton, but surely there is no way that would be covered by "any permitted"...

A friend has seen a lot of old sleepers in the Leominster area with this device made in wire (apparently) on the ends. He was sure I'd know what it was. He was wrong, but with your help he may be right. This is in a old sleeper used in a garden, but he was sure it was an old sleeper.

This may be off topic but I doubt I am the only person wondering this, it is rail related of course. To my latterly untutored A level physics (got an A in 1973) I'd have expected a shortfall in generating capacity would "show" as falling voltage. Plainly this is not the case, it comes out in...

Pottering down the M6 yesterday, near Dillicar Common, we were overhauled by two Class 325 units, which may have been the ones I saw at Motherwell earlier in the day. My driver asked me what the apparent blue LEDs on the side of them were (several, looked at about cant rail height, we both...

D8000 in the NRM has, I see, ETH wiring. Plainly this is through wires rather than supply. Why was this fitted? To others? Andrew

Just on the BBC NW news, money from HMG to build a foot/cycle bridge on the Arnside viaduct. I know nothing more, I suspect it is preliminary cash to pump prime a phase one study to evaluate the possibility of looking for funding for an early evaluation of a possible feasibility study or summat...

Is via Cambridge a permitted route on an off peak return (subject to times, obviously)? Routing guide says map EA and that shows via Cambridge and National Rail does yield an itinerary I think. Out via Colchester is OK but it will avoid bustitution on the return next Sunday. Incidentally is...

I need to take two lads to Manchester and was wondering if Horwich Parkway would be a good place to, well, park. Weekday next week, about 0930 is there likely to be space? I would ask a more rail question but apart from asking will I be able to buy Manchester rail/tram rangers there can't...

A colleague's child has lost cards, tickets and so on a long way from home. IS there any way the colleague could pay by card for collection remotely? Thanks.

Whilst I was digging to install our community fibre optic project (google B4RN) near Silverdale station a fellow madman put it to me that the Silverdale/Arnside section had an unparalleled density of foot crossings - 6 in a mile or so. Over to you gents. Also these are all protected by whistle...