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Does this offer have a time limit, or is it a permanent thing or until further notice? I suspect one of the latter two as the Northern website doesn't appear to mention a cut-off date. And in the Sheffield Telegraph and The Star, although rather oddly Tuesday's edition of The Star didn't appear...

Exactly, well said. With choice comes responsibility. I see that MPs will be voting on the measure today.

Yes it does. And for Nottingham, the distinctive bespoke design of Northern Counties bodied Leyland Atlantean and and the East Lancashire bodied Volvo B10M for Nottingham City Transport. And for Manchester, the Northern Counties bodied Atlanteans with "Greater Manchester Standard" bodies. See...

Not sure whether this belongs here or warrants a separate thread, but I see that the tickets section of the Blackpool Transport website mentions Heritage Day Travelcards at £18 adult and £9 child, valid on Heritage Tram Tours and on regular trams and buses. It says these are not valid for...

Not sure whether this belongs in Speculative Discussion or Railway History & Nostalgia but let's suppose that BR had decided to convert the Standard Tube Stock for the Isle of Wight to diesel instead of electrifying the Ryde-Shanklin line. One driving car per unit had a "switch compartment"...

Slightly off topic and not sure if this belongs here or warrants a separate thread, but does anyone know if paper One Day Travelcard holders still get a discount of about 25% on the IFS Cable Car? I believe that this was the case until recently but I can't find any reference to that facility on...

I have just bought a ticket using the Chiltern Railways website and discovered that, at least if you use PayPal, Chiltern offers you the option to pay in three monthly instalments instead of all in one go if you spend over a certain amount in a single transaction. Not sure if this option is...

I would guess that at least latterly it was formed mainly of mail and parcels vans with just one or two sleeping cars and a few ordinary seated coaches. I wonder how the used laundry from the southbound sleeper was dealt with during the period when the sleeping cars only ran north of...

There doesn't seem to have been any news yet about the final decision on future dog policy on West Midlands Metro following the end of the extended trial period at the end of February as I alluded to in entry #33 above. I guess it's a case of watch this space.

Do you know which specific Act of Parliament made this possible? I've come across this press release from 2022 on the Law Society website about proposed changes to marriage laws including making it possible to get married in a wider variety of venues...

Yes, I'd say that was a rebuild rather than a refurbishment, although I suppose you could say it was both. It involved rebuilding loco-hauled coaches into EMUs in the case of the REPs, although the REP driving cars were new-build vehicles, while in the case of the 4-TCs all vehicles were...

Does anyone know why a distinction is made between the oldest male MP and the oldest female MP in the House of Commons but not between the youngest male and the youngest female MP? The oldest male MP is known as Father of the House, and the oldest female MP is known as Mother of the House, but...

Do you mean the exit adjacent to the National Railway Museum? Or the one by the Royal Mail sorting office?

I'm fairly sure that the Wimbledon-West Croydon line went over to 456s with the start of the 1991/92 winter timetable, though. As I recall the last EPBs (both 2- and 4-EPB) disappeared from the South Western Division by about 1985/86 once the 455s were all in service. The remaining SWD EPBs...

There is the question of how the Waterloo Freight Hub proposed by the Cross River Partnership would fit into this scheme. Basically it would involve using some of the station undercroft to receive and sort rail freight bound for central London destinations...

My thoughts too, unless the law has recently changed. AIUI in England and Wales a wedding ceremony has to take place in a registered place of worship, a registry office or any other venue that's licensed to conduct weddings such as a hotel, castle or stately home. In Scotland, however, I...

Slightly off topic, I know, and maybe this warrants a separate thread, but am I right in thinking that a through ticket from any rail station on the mainland to Ryde via the Wightlink FastCat includes the Island Line train from Ryde Pier Head to Ryde Esplanade or St John's Road? And if you have...

I believe that the LMS also proposed new sliding door trains for the Euston-Watford DC lines as part of this scheme, but of course these never got built either and the DC lines (along with the North London Line) eventually got the slam-door Class 501s instead. I think there have been a few...

I suppose another option that might be worth considering if you are prepared, however reluctantly, to pay more than for a simple NUN-EUS Off-Peak Return, is going via Birmingham, crossing over from New Street to Moor Street, and going on Chiltern. According to the Chiltern website, an enhanced...

This may potentially warrant a separate thread, but what if you have a separate Wightlink ferry ticket (or Hovertravel hovercraft ticket for that matter) and an SWR or Southern Advance ticket from Portsmouth Harbour or Portsmouth & Southsea to London (or any other station served by Southern or...