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Started my year by actually using Brent Cross West for a reason other than just going to visit it. My mother was driving me back from relatives down the M1 & it made a convenient drop-off place. I think I may have the first ever ticket from Brent Cross West to Pitsea, where I went for the...

Excerpt from my moves book for 2023 Q4. Only journeys which started, ended or involved changing trains at a station I hadn't used before (underlined) are included. 26.X Crewe – Chester – Wrexham General Wrexham Central – Bidston – Birkenhead Park – Hoylake – Bk. North – New Brighton – Liverpool...

This is a mobile phone tripod that I found at approximately 17:42 today on-board 2F10 operated with 319381. If anybody here knows anyone who has lost a mobile phone tripod on this or on '9381's previous diagrammed service, 2A97, please respond. Until then, I will use the device for my own...

Not exactly mainline, but the District line between West Brompton and Earl's Court. Tube trains have microphones to adjust the volume of the announcements to the volume within the cars, and this corner always gets them onto the loudest setting.

When the Kingston branch was a separate parallel line between Malden and Wimbledon, it was on the south side of the mainline, so this would not explain the earthworks to the north. It also does not explain why the diveunder has room for 2 tracks, because when it did this, the mainline was only...

The area around New Malden Junction contains various piece of redundant railway infrastructure which aren't shown on any old maps to have ever accommodate a track. The first is the diveunder at the junction itself, which has an extra bore to accommodate a track diverging from the Up Kingston and...

Right, it's a long time since I last posted in this thread but here are the recent trips that I can remember. I went to Preston last month and rode around on a rented e-bike investigating proposed tram routes. At the end of this, I tried to take my bike on at Bamber Bridge, but it was a...

5: ’3213 7: ’3209 8: ’3203

Live scenes from beside the deathbed of ’3209. The coroner's verdict has yet to be confirmed, but it is expected to find that the cause of death is old age (odometer's ticked over).

This (Monday) evening, Seaford saw ’07, ’13 and another unidentified 313. ’07 gets my needs list down to just 1½ trains: 3211, and ’09 which I only rode from Barnham to Ford. I also forgot to mention in my post earlier the presence of 3205 operating from Brighton to Littlehampton. One of the...

Today (Monday) operated on the western diagrams 3209, ’15, ’19 and ’20. Chuffed to bits I am with this because it includes half my remaining needs list, and 3219 is being satisfyingly growly. I am expecting the 313s' era to end shortly after 18:30 this Saturday, and have pre-booked the 19:30...

Here is the complete set of timetables from southernrailway.com cropped to only those services mentioned on the webpage https://partimespotter.wordpress.com/diagrams/sn-313-diagram/, for anyone who wants diagram gen in a printable .png format. All applicable Ⓐ (sorry, I haven't found any data...

Tomorrow, I intend to start early to get an unusual working (a new addition to the timetable, due to the snow & strikes last week this is the first time it'll actually run!), so tonight I cycled to my local station to purchase a travelcard ahead of time. I found both Scheidt & Bachmann...

Went to Stoke-on-Trent to cycle the Potteries loop line. As I'd already had Kidsgrove I thought I might as well get in Longport this time. Pair of 158s was over half an hour late.

I have been looking at this diagram of Euston Underground station (original here). Euston is quite possibly the worst station on the Underground, certainly in zone 1, to enter & exit. All passengers other than those changing between the Northern & Victoria lines have to pass through the same...

Every now & then here in South London, one encounters an EMU which makes a rhythmic sound every couple of feet. At speed this sounds remarkably like a steam locomotive. My first thought as to what causes this is unevenly-worn tyres. Most of my encounters with trains that do this have been in...

I went up to COP-26 (on the Megabus as it had to be overnight & I couldn't afford the Caledonian Sleeper). Cowcaddens, Bridge Street, Kinning Park, Exhibition Centre, Shields Road, Anderston over the course of the day (all these are new stations, the underlined ones being NR because I wanted to...

I took the last train back from Moreton-in-Marsh today, & it was so late it missed its path Didcot–Reading & got sent along the Reliefs as far as Twyford!

After an epic 4-day cycle ride from London, taking in the Two Tunnels and the new path from Tutshill to Tintern, I crossed off Ledbury, and Great Malvern, seeing 172331 from last weekend in the opposite platform, before taking The Little Turbo That Could (165126) to Paddington, getting the...

I am new to this shack attack business, & looking back at the archives I have not found a definition for stations to be included, but using my own (rather restrictive) criteria, that to use a station, one must either: • Arrive on a train and leave by other means • Arrive by other means and leave...