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It is my understanding that this line on the East Coast of Florida runs with a mixture of locomotives. Some are new build Brookville BL36PH locomotives and a minority are older but rebuilt PPLX M-K F40PHM-3C locomotives that look like more traditional old US locomotives. My question is thus; on...

I mainly wanted to create a thread for the following bit of news, but I thought that as cruising is a bit of an under-discussed area, I'd make a more general thread. https://travelweekly.co.uk/news/tour-operators/marella-cruises-cancels-2024-25-asia-and-middle-east-programme Quite a number of...

No, it's not an early April Fools. Northrop Grumman are genuinely doing a study into developing a moon based rail network. I bet nobody had that on their 2024 rail bingo card... https://news.northropgrumman.com/news/releases/northrop-grumman-to-develop-concept-for-lunar-railroad

This may be of interest to some on here, as it looks like a decently priced mini-tour with a heritage diesel on load 13 from London Paddington to Birmingham, the class 52 isn't bad either ;) Start and end times are fairly civilised too. A joint tour by Pathfinder and UKRailtours...

Many years of decline for this airport, have resulted in the offering demising to just a couple of ITA flights a day to Rome and Milan. However, from April Ryanair seem to be having a go at re-launching a decent service with flights to/from Manchester, Berlin, Barcelona, Venice, Bologna, Turin...

Travelling into Leeds last night past Holbeck depot from Sheffield, I noticed that the chord towards the Airedale lines is electrified. However, it must be very rare for any electric trains to actually use it since the line South of there towards Wakefield Kirkgate isn’t electrified. Can anyone...

I've been quite happily travelling in the standard sleeper cabins on Trenitalia for a number of years now, these are absolutely fine and good value. However, a train I plan to use this year carries the Excelsior Sleeper cabins, with their own toilet and shower, but they are pretty much double...

Before closure in 1956 the Border Counties Railway offered a second route from Newcastle to Edinburgh via Riccarton Junction, although on timetabled trains this would take around 5 hours, so not remotely competitive in terms of time. However, can anyone clarify whether this route would have ever...

I'm very fortunate to have a couple of days in Colombo next year. I should be able to make one return train journey in this time on the nations railways. Two journeys seem to come up as the most scenic, from Fort station; the journeys to Galle and Kandy. Does anyone have advice as to which is...

Anyone know what this XC 22X is doing at Holbeck please? Normally only Northern units in there.

I am contemplating a trip from Southern Italy to Munich in 2024. I was originally considering taking a circuitous route to Rome and picking up the OBB direct night train to Munich from there. However, I see also that there are DB day trains from Verona onwards. I could instead get an Italian...

The Scotrail website states: https://www.scotrail.co.uk/tickets/first-class Can anyone kindly advise if this statement is relevant to advance tickets, or is it purely applied to more flexible fares? The website does not seem to indicate that it doesn't apply to advances, but nothing is...

UK Railtours latest email mailing list update contained the following statement: This could have a large effect on railtour operations in the UK, presumably ones to freight installations especially. With DRS and apparently ROG not interested in railtours either anymore, it does look like the...

The Keighley & Worth Valley Railway (KWVR) has apparently secured funding for commuter services, with investment promised in the diesel fleet and signalling infrastructure. Does anyone have any further details as the below BBC article is very vague? I applaud the railway in securing funding...

Just a quick note to inform forum members that on a recent (October) traversing of the Ionian Coast Line; there is evidence of electrification work progressing along the line from Sibari (the current end of the electrified line from Taranto and also across to Cosenza) to Crotone and onwards...

In the theme of the popular ‘what’s your latest acquisition’ thread, I thought I’d do one where we can share highlights of our latest running sessions, which probably aren’t significant enough to justify their own thread but cumulatively interesting enough to warrant an ongoing thread...

A positive update at last after the Elsecar Steam Railway closed and the line fell into disrepair. The new vision sounds Beamish-esque: https://www.elsecar-heritage.com/forging-ahead

Does anyone know when the Lakeside and Haverthwaite railway runs its Fairburn Steam tank engines and if this is advertised anywhere please? All recent photos online seem to be of the industrial steam locomotives and I can't see a loco roster on their website. If one was to visit this weekend...

Certainly an interesting idea, but I’m not sure how great the saving is going to be when you consider the extra weight and drag of the sails when they can’t be used. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66543643

On a recent journey, I did not receive my travel tickets in the post as requested. They were also not attached to the booking confirmation email (I ordered different tickets the day before from the same company and QR codes were also attached to that email). I rang the number included in...