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  1. defitzi

    Availability of train toilets

    not creating problems encountering problems. as a diabetic I have no problem ensuring I have suitable food/drink toilets are a different matter. Are folk like me no longer welcome to seek advice from the very many knowledgeable folk who can and willingly do, give it to us on this site?
  2. defitzi

    Availability of train toilets

    anyone know what passengers rights can on get off at a station and catch the next train (if there is one suitable). I have KNOWN staff lock toilets and refuse to open them, ( a very common practice among coach drivers). --- old post above --- --- new post below --- obviously there are lots...
  3. defitzi

    Edinburgh to Belfast with bicycle

    the answer simply is Stena First Scotrail just DO NOT WANT BICYCLES adult fare for Scotland zone A roughly to a line between Fort William Dundee and as far south as Dumfries is £29 single buy anytime return within one month and they won't take wheelchairs bloody don't want disabled or...
  4. defitzi

    Northern Ireland Railways

    so where is the thread now...I arrived (on time) only to find the thread had departed on an unknown line for some unknown destination. Ah so typical Norn' Ireland
  5. defitzi

    Edinburgh to Belfast with bicycle

    since the move to Cairnryan was announced I have tried ( without success), to ascertain from Scotrail media if sail rail would continue to be valid via Stranraer for disabled, cyclists and travellers with heavy luggage as the coach would have severe limitations.I have also reported and myself...
  6. defitzi

    Deustche Bahn London Spezial

    :smile: :) many thanks really helpful will check out was working on my own plan to try from Cologne to Leipzig, Dresden after that buy senior CZ card but diff arose unlikely local station perhaps not so unlikely sell card but pay one fare Praha and get nerw cards and proced from...
  7. defitzi

    The Great Circular European Railway Challenge

    mark only found here now bujt it and blog have been fascinating reading. Had I known of this when you were planning I'd have signed up will-nilly..alas now i am 76 and feeling my age a bit i must resort to dreaming. thing is i'm niot a great internetter just found it at the tail of my time...
  8. defitzi

    Deustche Bahn London Spezial

    how does one go about finding that...once went Paris Bayer Eisenstein ( used to be a railbus to Pilsen) cant remember cost was many years ago press facility anyway so had to link SNCF with DB.. night sleeper Munich :
  9. defitzi

    Merry Christmas

    Greetings and felicitations -lovely card from Forum inspiring nostalgic and what it's all about - think old BR would have made a better job to it in this appallimng weather than the grasping foreign moneybags controllingour railways now. Betcha lots of preserved Santa's are on the move. tho'...
  10. defitzi

    Irish Rail's dark doings at Rosslare Harbour

    :cry: Ok not nice to be right -depressing but the question remains: why? What is the real reason for closure? closing harbour station, getting shot of Wexford Rosslare link? Privatisation of harbour perhaps? Anyway, if predicted massive outcry does happen there shuld be plenty of folk well...
  11. defitzi

    A train that thinks it's Beethoven?

    no way: trains should sound like....well....trains! I love to park my motorhome near railways and man-do I sleep well? Yep. A favourite is as near as i can get to the old Paris-Lyon-Marseilles main line in France. Quite often I'm on my boat on the river near the bridge at Migennes: still a...
  12. defitzi

    about the Goilden Arrow and the Night Ferry(relative to another post seeking info)

    :D I recall leaving Victoria @ 10 pm -and arriving in Paris @ 10 am. the Paris to London services from Gare de Nord departed at the same times as those from Victoria Station.(local time). The Golden Arrows (Fleche d'Or in France) left Paris and London at 11am. (local times). The Golden Arrow...
  13. defitzi

    Trains in Normandy

    is there not a connection from the North-South TGV line through De Gaulle onto the TGV Est(Paris-Strasbourg) which passes just a bit to the North of CDG? I've never known a TGV to reverse save maybe out of crowded station but only to sidings.
  14. defitzi

    Irish Rail's dark doings at Rosslare Harbour

    :twisted: j'accuse: Irish Rail of doing everything it can to close the Rosslare harbour -Waterford-Limerick railway. A reason why IR dislikes the Rosslare-Limerick link may well that it inherited the line but it did not want it. Irish Rail's current policies at Rosslare Harbour (IE doing...
  15. defitzi

    IE: Limerick - Galway opens for Business

    :evil:a fast tram- ie light railway, might have been better. Why do folk always want to restore closed rail links that will be passenger only with heavy rail and low average speeds. This reopened line is a case in point: times because of all the limitations, are no better than no better than a...
  16. defitzi

    Google StreetView trainspotting

    And we'll all go together.....:twisted:
  17. defitzi

    Another reason why frieght should be on the railways

    Prescott never did anything but bull****.....so wot's new? Re trucks-they always pull out too suddenly-after tailgating whatever is in front- it's how they grab any space because being on cruise control, they never, ever, want to slow down from maximum speed to even 1 mph less.....and so occur...
  18. defitzi

    Another reason why frieght should be on the railways

    :evil: mechanical horse and trailer perhaps
  19. defitzi

    Railways more expensive than air travel - Surely that's not right?

    Oops mixed up replies this was to captain speaking 'course the shareholders MUST get their tons and tons and tons of flesh no matter- and until now MPs, never met the likes of us folk either..... wonder what will happen now mps will have to endure us class of folk? Meantime, I think...
  20. defitzi

    Britrail passes

    thanks.You have been helpful as have so many others. No need to buy now.. The original project which was intended to include a considerable purchase of Britrail Passes, has since3 been cancelled; mainly because initially, it proved impossible to ascertain the costs involved as the search was in...

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