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Bit of an off-beat question this, but I'm trying to get a sound system set up in one of the Bermondsey arches (just a simple amp and mic thing is the order of the day) but the sound set up we currently have suffers from random bursts of electrostatic noise from the railway above. Would anyone be...

Pertaining to the above - anyone know what the speed restriction on the slow lines just to the north of Purley station is about?

Mornin' I'm off from London Bridge to Bognor this evening. I have a Z1-6 season ticket but booking systems do not allow the selection of Boundary Zone X to X tickets. So inputting my requirements into the RUK ticket system I've gone for a return from Coulsdon South and this has come up...

Building from this thread, there are various comments about heritage railways being too long and that extensions aren't really worth the time, cost or trouble. This put the question into my mind what is the optimum length of a heritage operation? Personally when I'm heading to one I want it to...

I'm looking to spend a weekend at the end of September partaking of the local hostelries around Dusseldorf and Koln. Is buying through Eurostar the cheapest way to book or is there another way which will yield cheaper tickets?

I was under the impression that if you forget your season ticket you can claim back the cost of your journey with contactless or other means of payment up to three times per year? A few weeks back I thought I'd lost the Oyster card that my monthly 1-6 is stored on, so as well as paying for that...

I know that this is not allowed but I should imagine that since COVID sprung the concept of the part-office, part homeworking lifestyle, that sharing Oyster weekly/monthlies with partners/friends is becoming more and more prevalent among the citizens of London. It would not surprise me if the...

Brief story... I ended up in a situation a couple of days ago where I could have received a penalty fare because a machine wouldn't sell me the tickets I required. I was going from Purley to Horley with my partner and our two children but we only needed to buy tickets for the children - I had...

Hello, I am interested in having a go with a train simulator, but before I launch myself headlong into this world, I would like to ask: - where is a good place to start as a beginner? - Which simulator allows the most customisation eg route-creation, rolling stock, timetabling etc.? How easy...

Hello, Other than train simulators are there any other railway-based games out there worth buying? Either for PC or actual board games (I have 4 different versions of Ticket to Ride...)

Following on from the discussion here, I'd be interested to know whether there were any regular services in the past (pre 1982) that used the fast line spur between Selhurst and St James' Junction on the West Croydon branch. I remember passing the remains of the junction on the train as a child...

Hi all, I'm going up to Sheffield this weekend on Friday evening and returning to STP on Sunday. I'm intending to stay overnight with my brother in Dronfield on Friday. Am I allowed to do this on one ticket? Or do I have to buy the return to Sheffield and additionally a single from...

Af'noon, I'm going to university reunion in Winchester and staying overnight. I am intending to pick up the XX.12 from CLJ sometime tomorrow late morning (after meeting friends), returning sometime Sunday. I am already covered from Zones 1-6. What is the best way to do this? Is it possible to...

I came to the realisation recently that I have never properly combined my two passions - railways and beer. So in the spirit of resolving this issue, what do forum members think is their favourite railways related beer festival and why?

Afternoon I was thinking what might be the way in as a timetable planner and what the salary would be roughly at entry level? I don't think I've ever seen it discussed here. When I was a teenager I did two-week's work experience in the timetabling department at Stephenson House in Croydon and...

Wasn't sure whether to post this in '.. preservation' or '... nostalgia', anyway, as you were. I have just read in an excerpt from a book sent to me by someone (not sure which book - may be Branch Lines of Dorset by Maggs) stating that the original station building from Broadstone was...

I recall it being published...is anything being actioned?

I'm tentatively playing with some modelling ideas based around a "spared" S&D line and was wondering if anyone could advise what sort of motive power and rolling stock would have been seen in the Wessex area during the 80's. Obviously Class 50s on the Waterloo-Exeter and Class 33s + 8TCs on the...

This summer I am intending to take the family on un Tour de Europe par le train. Believe it or not, this was actually my partner's idea and not mine (and she's not the one who is a rail nerd)! We are roughly planning to go for about 10 days, setting off and returning to St Pancras International...

Inspired by the recent threads about the Sutton loop, I'd like to ask forum members: which in your opinion is the dullest stretch of track in these fair isles? You may include Eire, the Isle of Man or any island dotted around the coast of mainland Britain. Not Sodor though. Evocative and florid...