• Our new ticketing site is now live! Using either this or the original site (both powered by TrainSplit) helps support the running of the forum with every ticket purchase! Find out more and ask any questions/give us feedback in this thread!

Search results

  1. Merthyr Imp

    Clergy and railways.

    Yes, it was a single episode of 'All Gas and Gaiters'. Sadly, it's not one of the few surviving episodes but it's available to listen to as part of the later radio version of the series:
  2. Merthyr Imp

    Guess the Station...

    Reading Green Park is correct.
  3. Merthyr Imp

    Guess the Station...

    Not there - in fact it's no station with Parkway in its name.
  4. Merthyr Imp

    Guess the Station...

    Not there.
  5. Merthyr Imp

    Guess the Station...

    Not Tiverton.
  6. Merthyr Imp

    Guess the Station...

    Try this one:
  7. Merthyr Imp

    CrossCountry XC Class 170 refurbishment

    Has there been an improvement in legroom?
  8. Merthyr Imp

    Heritage Railways - Making a Success of a Main Line Connection

    The West Somerset saw 'The Butlins Express' during the summer of 2007 at least. Can't remember if it ran the following year. Operated by Victa Westlink Rail it ran from Bristol Temple Meads to Minehead, calling at Taunton. Can't remember, again, how many days a week it operated or how many...
  9. Merthyr Imp

    Why does TfW operate the Manchester - Cardiff? Should XC run it?

    And in the world of football in the 'olden days' clubs like Chester, Shrewsbury and Hereford were allowed to compete in (and often win) the Welsh Cup.
  10. Merthyr Imp

    Why does TfW operate the Manchester - Cardiff? Should XC run it?

    You have to remember that TfW is owned by the Welsh Government and there's an element of nationalism which believes all railways in Wales should be operated by a Welsh organisation. Without the Marches line, despite it running largely through England, to link them the Welsh railways would be in...
  11. Merthyr Imp

    Guess the Station...

    Know it well. That shows the small building which was the main entrance to the station until they made the alterations, I suppose 20 or more years ago now, which involved cutting back that platform, the rest of which is behind the camera. I've got nothing at the moment so will have to open the...
  12. Merthyr Imp

    Guess the Station...

    Radyr?
  13. Merthyr Imp

    Guess the Station...

    My sons says Perth.
  14. Merthyr Imp

    Mid to late 1980s, which Locomotives on Welsh Marches line?

    I travelled from Hereford (dep 1840) to Crewe behind 47611 on 8 November 1986.
  15. Merthyr Imp

    Trivia: fictional stations you've seen displayed on message boards?

    At York on the day of the World Cup semi-final in 2018:
  16. Merthyr Imp

    Guess the Station...

    Gorebridge is correct (but surely SE of Edinburgh).
  17. Merthyr Imp

    Guess the Station...

    I can say it's neither station in Wakefield.
  18. Merthyr Imp

    Guess the Station...

    Try this:
  19. Merthyr Imp

    Guess the Station...

    Stoke-on-Trent
  20. Merthyr Imp

    Guess the Station...

    Or possibly Scotland.

Top