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I saw 56001 and 002 shortly after they arrived at Tinsley. In my attempt to get round the shed I asked the foreman if I could see the new locos as I'd travelled on the train from Bristol. He got someone to show them to me then threw me out! They were both on the same road in the shed iirc. Did...

BR had advanced tickets in 1975 or 76, they were called book ahead economy returns, I bought them a number of times to travel from Chippenham to Manchester on trains that more or less guaranteed to hold connections. They were very much cheaper than normal tickets and you had to specify the...

The article said there was a council decision due on Jan 9th, anyone know if a decision was made and what it was?

I was wondering what was going on. It's not helping the traffic in the town is it? Maybe utilities are more complex than expected?

Is there any actual new line other than loops? The original BBC story said "new railway for Cornwall" but is it just a new through service with improved frequency? I don't know much about the area so this is a genuine question.

Well I'm a senior software engineer so know my way around apps so hopefully it wasn't user error. I've also been using the GWR app since it came out and at one point led a tender to replace it (sadly we were unsuccessful). I'd been looking for 3 days prior and tickets were available in the days...

My son needed to travel from Chippenham to Bristol on Saturday afternoon and it was a bit odd that the GWR app said no trains but RTT and national rail showed trains until 17:40. He turned up for the 16:40 which ran no problem. Why would GWR not want to sell tickets?

What keeps the caps in place, is it just weight? Do they put something between the brick and the concrete to even out any imperfections?

Having lived in the corsham area all my life there are many compelling reasons to reopen the station. The suggestion above of a station near Lacock makes no sense due to where the line serves. Corsham is a dormitory for Chippenham, Bath and Bristol. The Bus service is a total Joke it takes...

My problem is I want to reserve a seat and can't!

I tried to buy a ticket from Bristol to Newcastle for a date in November and their own web site says reservations not available in both directions. I've also read that reservation is compulsory so what is going on? Is it simply that they are limiting the number of tickets sold for a particular...

Many years ago there were still one or two loco hauled services from Bristol to Swindon, I got one from Bath to Chippenham, this was a 47 with about 5 Mk1s and I was in the vestibule of the last carriage. Coming around the embankment after Thingley the train was still doing linespeed and I...

First time I ever saw or was hauled by an electric was an 84 (001 I think) in 1976 when I travelled from Bristol to Manchester for my brother's wedding. Bristol to Birmingham was a peak and the 84 took over from BHM. Saw my first 44 Scafell Pike that day, my first 20 and 40 what a fantastic...

Building new locos to replace perfectly good older ones would create far more emissions than the excess emissions the 66 would generate in service.

The beanacre sub station is connected by underground cables with a special transformer that came in by road and as the wires never made it to thingley there is a 25kv feeder cable that goes to Wooten Bassett. You can see the cable troughs along the route.

I was going to say Reading, it's positively freezing there, every time I've been, don't remember it being like that before the rebuild.

I've done Chippenham to Bath most days for 35 years and yes it is good but maybe you get a bit complacent, so it's nice to see others appreciate it!

I always use e tickets and have to take a screenshot of the QR code to claim. I guess that's quite hard to fake, however there's no way to prove I was on a particular train. On the subject of e tickets they seem very insecure, what's to stop me sending a screen shot to a friend? I guess...

As a red green colour blind person all 3 colours look the same! Thankfully the text is rather obvious!

I now have two sets, one haulage and one travelled in. Sooner I can get in 800001 the better and I can go back to not caring!