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In 1974, I was allowed to take the Up Thames Clyde on my own on a family holiday to Kent. I had some trouble persuading the gate staff at Glasgow Central that this was the train I wanted, not the fast electric service. I also recall that after leaving Leeds, we were routed from Wakefield...

I'm travelling to London. I usually depart from Edinburgh Waverley. On this occasion, it was cheaper to buy a ticket departing from Haymarket. My question is: can I board the train at Waverley (which is the second stop)? The ticket code is BPT.

it used to be the main line from Burntisland to Perth for the north British until the Forth Bridge and the Glenfarg line was built.

This pdf should explain why the Fife Circle service was discontinued..

i posted this after reading the announcement of the new Overground names. They didn't strike me as being particularly memorable, and I have seen a suggestion that it would have been better to go with O1, O2, etc. having said that, I am not resident in London or a regular visitor, so I would be...

My own (non expert) view is that the biggest mistake of the Beeching Era was the assumption that the railways could be operated without subsidy. Although cuts were necessary, and probably overdue , cuts alone were never going to make the railways operate at a profit - or not until the network...

I can agree with that sentiment. My timetables for 1968 show a very patchy service of more or less 1 train an hour from Rosyth at a time when Eastern Scottish were running 2 buses an hour from Edinburgh to Dunfermline with 1 continuing to Perth. By 1972, the rail service had at least become...

I boarded a train today at Rosyth without a ticket and travelled to Inverkeithing. My justification was that I was going to by a Fife concessionary fare from the guard if approached. I have done this before without any problem. Today I was not checked, so I went to the ticket office to get the...

I expect some posters may already have seen this, but for anyone else who may have missed it, here is a link; https://github.com/anisotropi4/kingfisher/blob/main/station.md The program shows the size of traffic flow from any UK station; just pick the station from the attached list and an image...

I have been trying to get hold of tour brochures and itineraries for Eastern Scottish multi-day tours in the early 1970s. I have been able to pick up the odd item here or there, but I would like to ask if anyone might have any advice on where to look for this sort of ephemera.

I came across this book online recently which lays out wha might be described as a 'scientific' or rational approach to designing Britain's railway network from scratch. Has anyone else come across it? Some parts are highly technical in nature, but there are some useful sections on British...

In 1963 , My local station, Rosyth, had one train more or less every hour to Edinburgh; the "eccentriicity" of service intervals back then was pretty standard on all the lines in the area, and was not a great incentive to travel by train when the buses were offering 2 per hour over the newly-...

Like Webster's dictionary, they're Morocco Bound.

Was the direct Manchester to Derby service before closure significantly faster or more frequent than todays device with a reversal at Sheffield?

I wouldn’t have closed the line from Leuchars to St.Andrews in 1969,but I would not re- open it today.

CW responded to say it was a mistake, so I think we can now safely say that Tony Hancock was not the actor. On the other hand he did not say who who he thinks it actually was. So if anyone comes across a video of a man emerging from a toilet on a Network South-East station to find he has missed...

I sent a (tweet?) but no reply.

Perhaps they should bring back Thornton Junction as an interchange station, with a shuttle bus to Glenrothes. ;)

I sent a (tweet?) to Nick H, and replied that he doesn’t remember.. so no further forward.