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I work mostly in Excel/VBA and Delphi now. I am only an amateur, but I've been programming since 1968 and have worked in more languages than I can remember.

For fifty years I have been playing fantasy timetables, using computers for the last 40. Never finished anything! Lots of scraps in long-forgotten computer languages. I'd be interested in sharing ideas with anyone who wants to develop home-brew software. In particular, I'd love to get hold...

I have been hunting for the number of stations reached by the Atlantic Coast Express. In my Winter 1962 timetable it carried 7 sections and called at 51 stations. 42 of which are now closed. 43 if you count Okehampton as closed. But there would have been more in 1955 when Lyme Regis and...

Presteigne it was! Give the man a cigar! From 1875 to 1951 Presteigne had 3 trains a day, but they only went to Titley Junction or Kington. From there you joined the mighty express from New Radnor to Leominster, but even at Leominster there was never a through train to London. Until the...

I believe that throughout most of rail history there was only ONE mainland Great British station which required THREE changes to reach London. Anyone know which?

In pre-grouping days, every company tried to compete. Look at the list of destinations on the gateposts at Euston. They would happily take each other's tickets, too, and reclaim from each other through the Railway Clearing House. I remember being told, for example, if you had booked a Great...

Very interesting serious discussion. But my question is... new lines in London are tunnelled, and quite right, too. Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Nottingham(?), Sheffield (?) desperately need tunnels to run a joined-up rail service. Why aren't they getting them? (When I say Birmingham, I...