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Not sure if this will be the right place for this (perhaps it'd be better in the international section instead?) and it's probably a long shot anyway. On Monday (16th May) I was on a train in Spain that passed yards near Alicanti and Murcia which had some Class 58s in them. I know 58015...

Does anyone know the identity of the grey 08/09 and Arriva livery 153 at Crewe LNWR?

A couple of weeks back I downloaded a few routes, GEML, WCML over Shap, Kings Cross-Peterborough and Settle-Carlisle. since doing that I have tried two of the routes, WCML over Shap, and Kings Cross-Peterborough and every time it has crashed with the error: "Failed to save dump file to...

Afternoon all (or morning/evening as appropriate). I run a league on an online football manager game called Xpert Eleven and I wondered if anyone here fancied joining in. It's free and quite easy to learn the basics. The other managers in the league are a friendly bunch and there is a large...

Tell them an appeal is unlikely to have any effect (unless he has a ticket I'm not sure what there is to appeal against!) and to pay up because TOCs do take things like this to court on a regular basis. Oh, and it's not a fine, it's an Unpaid Fares Notice, the title explains itself really.

Does anybody know whether any 158s used or crossed the West Coast Mainline around 2000-2003? I'm particularly interested in the stretch from Warrington to Carlisle. I know the franchise map was somewhat different and that Manchester and Liverpool saw 158s on a regular basis, but is there...

Earlier in the year I had a day free from work to do what I wanted, I decided on a trip to London, but what could I do while I was there? I decided on a challenge to visit every 'London Terminal' station, using the underground would be too easy and where is the fun in walking everywhere? So it...

Yes okay it's a rubbish thread title, but I was struggling for anything good..... Anyway, tomorrow I'll be heading off on 19 days of travel, mostly around the north of England. The original idea was to travel on every purple line shown on Northern Rail's Passenger Charter Map (which should be...

I'm going to be building a model railway with a few different time periods in mind, and whilst many time dependant bits of information can be easily found, the subject of stop boards isn't well catered for it seems. I am looking at modelling a token block branch line and I notice, from some...

Northern Rail are to release a set of Advance fares for their Leeds-Nottingham route. They will be available from Leeds to stations between Meadowhall and Nottingham inclusive and vice versa, from Wakefield to stations between Sheffield and Nottingham inclusive and vice versa, and from stations...

Starting tomorrow (28th March 2012) and over ten consecutive days, I intend to travel completely around England's coasts and along it's borders by rail. Totalling more than 2,800 miles, the route will take in branch lines and secondary routes, using most of the TOCs along the way. Hopefully I'll...

That's right sports fans, having already lost half the coverage of Formula One, the BBC have lost the rights to show any horse racing live, including the Grand National, to Channel 4. The BBC have said that they can now direct funds to the remaining sports they have. I'm not a fan of horse...

I am making plans for a nice long round trip across the country, but I wondered if anyone knows of any cheap B&Bs close to the following stations (ideally within walking distance). Sunderland Scarborough Boston (Lincs) Great Yarmouth Witham Eastbourne Exmouth Par Gloucester I'm...

I have two sealed unopened boxes of Peco code 80 SL-300 flexible track (50 pieces in total) that I bought for a bigger layout and no longer need. Ideally I'd be looking for around £50 for each box, but I am open to reasonable offers. Local pick up can be arranged or postal rates can be worked...

Well, not entirely..... The BBC have agreed a deal to show HALF the F1 races from 2012 to 2018 (including British and Monaco GPs) with Sky showing EVERY race during that time. Welcome to the pay per view era!

Note: You can download the latest version of the Advance Fare FAQs extracted from The Manual in the Fares Guide - it's a PDF attachment at the bottom of this post. - yorkie The Manual (FRPP) now has a section called Advance Fare FAQs (under ticket Validities). I thought I would share the often...

I would like to know the formation of the HST sets that ran the Euston-Holyhead services for Virgin. I've been trying to get an idea based on pictures from google searches, knowing vaguely what the formation will be. I'm looking for sets around 2000-2002ish, but the pictures I have seen have...

Normally I don't ask for advice/help or such on here for this sort of thing, but I couldn't believe my eyes when I checked this one, it is as they say, "to good to be true", so I just would like it all double checked incase I missed something. Also if there are other options I'd like to hear...

We seem to have threads for every other type of station so we may aswell chew this one over. Basically we are looking for non-terminus stations which have more than one platform, where every platform can have passenger services leaving in either direction (not neccesarily in normal service...

Simple question really, are there any preserved railways which operate over level crossings? if so, what type are used and how are they operated?