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There used to be a lot of china clay trains in Cornwall back in the day. In recent years this has turned into very few. Was the prime reason less demand for the clay in the Potteries or did the supplies of the clay around the greater St Austell area run out?

A friend went to Barrow in Furness yesterday to watch a football match for the first time in 55 years at Barrow. We know about the delays. He travelled from Crewe and booked his tickets with EMR, who does he claim delay repay from, EMR or Northern? TIA

On Tuesday 19th March I had a LNER Standard Advance single from Newark Northgate to Leuchars with a Darlington change. My ticket stipulated 1S10 0930 from Kings Cross which left NNG on time at 1046 and arriving DAR on time at1205. The second train was 1W11 1200 KGX to ABD, this train left DAR on...

Many of you will have seen the Freightliner Intermodal guards unit outside the NRM at York. Were these ever used on trains in the 1960's? I was a freight guard in 1970 and my container train trips were in the rear cab of the loco. I wouldn't fancy being in one of those units at the rear of a...

If I had a LNER Advance ticket from London Kings Cross to say Aberdeen, and I decided to stop short of my destination at say Dundee. Would my ticket be valid and work the barriers? If not what fare would I have to pay?

There was a petition a while ago to keep station ticket offices open, I was delighted to sign it even though I do not use the ticket offices. Until this week ! I was on a 7 train journey, 4 day trip around Scotland and the dreaded happened, I had left my Senior Railcard at home. I won't bore...

As a generalisation, do the Intermodals from Felixstowe weigh a lot more than the services going to Felixstowe? I would have thought that trains from the port weighed a lot more because of imports coming from China etc, whilst the Intermodals going to Felixstowe would be carrying quite a lot of...

I wonder if AWC missed a trick on the recent 390 refurb. Could the shop coach (C)? have been moved one or two places nearer to the centre of the consist? I am of a certain age and have limited mobility,and it is a long walk on a 11 car high speed tilting train, but it is my era who are more...

I have just been looking at booking some tickets and pinned to the times are warnings about eascalators being out of action, St Pancras, Leicester, Ashford kent to name but 3. Is there a Health and Safety purge on regarding escalators? TIA

I happened to notice that the 0752 Aberdeen to Kings Cross and the 0755 Inverness to Kings Cross are scheduled to be looped at Abington for Pendolino's during the weekend diverts.. I checked the 0752 for last Saturday and sure enough it got looped, I may try and have a ride but the diverts are...

I get confused on what strike days there are some trains and which days there are none at all. From past experience, will EMR be running any trains at all to London on Thursday 20th July? If there are no trains, could I use Plan B of driving to Stanmore, or are the tube trains also on strike? TIA

The ECML is closed for through trains on the 16th and 17th May between Peterborough and Doncaster, it seems unusual for a midweek closure, what is the reason for the closure?

Both Avanti West Coast and Stena line have some good offers at the moment and I was thinking of making a trip to Holyhead and then a day return on Stena Line across to Dublin. I am a little confuesd about Holyhead though, the Stena line uses T5 which seems quite a long way from where the train...

I am going to have a ride around the Manton to Glendon line on Sunday, EMR do a decent First Class fare but their website states 'no complimentaries on a Sunday', do you not even get a cup of coffee? TIA

I have been to Leeds and back from Kings Cross this week just for the pleasure of riding in a 225 set, mind you it was in First Class. IMHO there is no other trainset that comes near to the 225's in First anyway, by far the best way to travel on UK rails. On Tuesday I heard the 225's are about...

This is an unusual diagram, empty stock from Burton Wetmore to Tyne on Saturday, then Necastle to Wembley central via Old Road, Leicester, Nuneaton and Wembley Central and reverse at 2105 from Wembley after the game, arrive back at NCL 0225. I don't know why this one is allowed to...

Hello members, a dinosaur here from analogue days, I know a bit about the digital era, but not a lot. :) So I had lots of photos in 'my pictures' (Windows 10) desktop PC which I nearly lost a couple of years ago,I have now transferred these to a number of Kingston 16Gb memory sticks. First...

I am looking at taking the wife to Edinburgh by LNER later in the month but I have been deterred from booking my hotel and train tickets because of the on going rail strikes. What is the earliest date in January strikes could be called following the January 7th stoppage? TIA

I know a bit about railfares but not a lot. :) I was looking at the LNER Facebook site and a passenger had a ticket yesterday from somewhere in England to Gleneagles on the direct Highland Chieftain service...

Is there a chart lsiting how much it costs to upgrade to AWC Standard Premier? I would expect pay £30 if upgrading Euston to Manchester/Liverpool/Carlisle/ Glasgow etc, but how are the upgrade fees worked out for say Blackpool North to Stafford or Nuneaton to Manchester. TIA