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In connection with my thread on AWC "updated" journeys, I just sometimes wonder what is the attitude of Transport for Wales towards Avanti West Coast? AWC occasionally terminate one of their Euston- Holyheads at Crewe, or start a journey from Holyhead at Crewe. The usual spiel about you may...

I received an interesting email last Saturday telling me my intended service from North Wales to London by Avanti West Coast had been "updated" Does this mean I'd been moved to 1st class, or would be given a complimentary cup of coffee, I wondered? No - my train had been cancelled - something...

Please pardon a personal query, but I shall be staying at the DoubleTree by Hilton hotel on Granary Wharf, Leeds, in September. Google maps shows the route from the station front exit via Neville St, but am I right in thinking there is a rear exit which will bring me down directly to Granary...

I see Avanti West Coast has revived the old GWR practice of slip-coaches. From their journey-check:- https://www.journeycheck.com/avantiwestcoast/ 05:49 Holyhead to London Euston due 09:35 has been delayed at Chester and is now 19 minutes late. This is due to a fault on this train. Will be...

Does anyone have a copy of Granville Dobson's reminiscences entitled "Old Flames" that they would be prepared to sell to me? I've tried all the usual out-of-print sources. Amazon has one for sale at £365, but I'm afraid the budget doesn't run quite so far!

By sheer fluke, I have just discovered that London North Western Railways, which runs trains nowhere near North Wales, will offer me e-tickets for journeys soley along the North Wales Coast, whereas Transport for Wales, who run most of the trains, will not. This seems crazy. Normally I would go...

Unfortunately, I missed the above exhibition in Wakefield last December. I'm not usually into modelling, so don't subscribe to any modelling magazines, but would like to see this, so I wonder if any of you have heard of any venues yet for this year where I may go and see it. Thank you.

I'm currently reading Stephen Cornish's "Day Return to 1969" [ISBN-13: 9798722485359 - printed by Amazon]. This is Cornish's autobiographical account of his railway career, starting on the CLC in the late 1960s. He describes the totally different ethos affecting the railway in those days, and...

My current bed-time reading is Paul Kirkham's memoirs of a bus and coach-driving career with Ribble and Standerwick in the 1970s. An interesting account of the days when coaches were not limited to 62mph and lanes 1 & 2 only on the motorways, and popular journeys like Blackpool-London sometimes...

Does anyone know how busy the above usually get on a weekday? If I arrive between 9.30am and 10am at either, would I find a space or do they fill quickly?

Mrs W. travelled from Rhyl on the 0653 Avanti service this morning, using an e-ticket bought from the Avanti website. She found, not for the first time with this type of ticket at this location and with this train, that the gate would not accept her ticket, even though it was accepting...

I am a recent convert to e-tickets [I know, being dragged into the 21st century!], and appreciate receiving them within a few minutes of booking and being able to store the attachment on my phone. I usually print out the ticket too -belt and braces approach! But not all booking engines seem to...

I see from TfW Journey-check, Valley, Conwy, Yorton, Prees and Sugar Loaf are added to the list of stations temporarily closed from 5th July for social distancing measures. Also interesting is that TfW trains will no longer call at Earlestown. Presumably this is because the curvature of the...

[This thread was inspired by the thread "Britain's most underrated visitor destinations" in this same section] Back in the day when tourism was a vital part of the local economy and visitors were welcome, I think the locals in Devon used to call visitors "grockles" and Cornwall "emmets" I'm...

Are my old eyes deceiving me or did I actually see [at a distance] a 156 in TfW colours forming 1K07 1028 Holyhead-Crewe today? I'm sure it had droplights and doors at the end of each coach. Or is the strain of lockdown getting to me? [Apologies if this has been mentioned before]

On the old Virgin West Coast website I could book an Advance Ticket for an outward journey, and for the return an off-peak single [online only], available on any off-peak train, provided it was booked at the same time and as part of the return journey. This was usually half the price of the...

I notice TfW is running RR buses between Chester and Manchester Piccadilly today, yet I can't find any signs of engineering works between Chester and Ordsall Lane as both Northern services to Leeds and via the Mid Cheshire line seem to be working normally. Does anyone know if there are specific...

Today I gave my new TfW Concessionary Travel Bus Card [Senior Citizen card] a spin. It worked perfectly on all Arriva journeys, but was rejected every time I attempted to use it on Llew Jones buses, even though they use the same Ticketer system as Arriva. When I mentioned this to the drivers...

Is there a problem with the track at Crewe North Junction? For the last few days, there has been a delay in coupling the 0448 Holyhead-Euston[1R13] with the 0530 Blackpool North- Euston[1K14]. The Holyhead has been on time, and then departure delayed, waiting for the Blackpool, which has been...

Does anyone know why this service has been cancelled between July 29th & August 2nd? There is no mention of its cancellation on the "Forthcoming Engineering Works" section of the VT websiite and it is not showing-up in the booking engines. RTT shows it as "cancelled in timetable" It actually...