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The announcements at Birmingham New Street used to pronounce Bournville with the stress on "ville". BournVILLE. Very odd.

Wolverhampton Low Level? The old station building is still in situ and visible from the platforms of the current (High Level) station.

Good

I'd love to see Martin Bairstow-esque books covering the West Midlands in as much detail as he's covered the West Riding.

My visit? It was last month.

London Transport Museum has closed and suspended its programme of events.

There's a BBC news article about it now: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-51820160

Opened in 1837: https://www.warwickshirerailways.com/lms/curzonstreet_shed.htm Demolished before the first 25-inch OS maps were surveryed in 1887: https://maps.nls.uk/view/115633308 I've overlaid an old track plan onto a modern satellite image, so you can see exactly where it used to stand:

Reddit thread here: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/fgabqu/excavation_work_in_birmingham_uk_revealed_an_old/

I think you've just answered your own question. Mainstream channels are there to cater for a mainstream audience.

Where else would you imagine you'd obtain it? If these machines are the only thing on the platform, then surely it's obvious they're there to sell tickets etc. If they're not, and share the platform with vending machines, photo booths, phone boxes et all, then it should become clear from a...

Because they assume their passengers posses enough intelligence to realise that a big machine with a touchscreen bearing the name and logo of the TOC, a card reader and a PIN pad, standing on a station platform is quite clearly a ticket machine? Have there yet been any cases where a passenger...

What else would they be? Give non-frequent rail users a bit of credit, please.

Is anyone able to clarify something regarding the Days Out Guide 2 for 1 offer, and how it relates to Advance tickets? From their website: "If you are making a one way journey or your ticket is valid for one day, you can use your National Rail tickets to qualify for the 2FOR1 offer only on the...

The Severn Valley offers through ticketing, but good luck trying to find a ticket to Bridgnorth in any online ticketing system.

What a bizarre post.

Well, it's back now. Must have been a glitch at their end.

The National Rail Enquiries page which shows the release the release dates for Advance Tickets appears to have stopped showing them at all. https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/times_fares/ticket_types/44703.aspx There's usually a table, listing each TOC, and the current date their advances are...

Perhaps we caught them on a bad day - it was the first operating day of the year after all - but the bubble car we were on was pretty rough. There were seat cushions detached from their frames, several doors with notices saying they're out of use, internal panelling rotting away in places, and...

This came to mind when visiting the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway over half term. I'm sure they're doing their best, but it's not much of a day out. One trip there and back again on a fairly tatty DMU, and you've done it all. While they're not in the middle of nowhere, public transport in that...