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Thanks, I'd managed to block out that memory! :D Lancaster to Leeds in a 3-car Cl 144 in February, with snow on the ground! It was a sub-zero 75mph wind tunnel below the seats. I wound up kicking my shoes off and tucking my feet underneath me on the seat. It took until Gargrave for the feeling...

As far as long distances on a Pacer are concerned, I have done: Lancaster-Leeds via Bentham (Cl. 144), Liverpool Lime Street-York (Cl. 142) and Huddersfield-Prestatyn and back (Cl. 142). I think the worst one as far as the riding characteristics went was the Liverpool Lime Street to Manchester...

I thought perhaps Talgo were branching out into the Belgian and Italian rolling stock markets and supplying stock pre-graffitied to save time later.

According to one.network (formerly roadworks.org) that part of Station Road is closed until 9th February.

Thanks for that info, we must have missed them when we were in Athens/Thessaloniki. (same trip, out through Italy and ferry to Patras, back through Yugoslavia!) Ouch! Two gauge changes? o_O

In the early 1980s there were through sleeping cars from Moscow to Rome. I'm not sure of the eastern end of the route, but they ran via Yugoslavia (I saw them in Ljubljana) and on to Rome via Trieste and Venice.

I have been to both of York's (current) twin cities: Münster (Westfalen) in Germany on the school exchange (3 times) and Dijon in France visiting my brother's exchange partner. Münster has a public transport system based around buses, just as York does, but the Münster bus system just seemed...

The Tramway du Mont Blanc from Saint-Gervais-les-Bains-Le-Fayet to Le Nid D'Aigle in France also has a street view available.

Aye, we left Calais Maritime round about mid/late afternoon, loco change at Calais Ville (diesel->electric) reversal at Lille Flandres, into Basel SNCF at sparrow fart, Innsbruck coach shunted round every platform in Basel SNCF and SBB (some of them twice!) as the inward train was shunted about...

Checking back through the train formations on the excellent vagonweb.cz site for 1990/91 (picked at random) shows a through Paris Est to Innsbruck night train with sleeping cars and couchettes. Train numbers D468/D469 in that timetable. There were certainly through couchettes from Calais...

I have just seen an ESTonian registration plate on a car parked in Tesco's car park at the Askham Bar Store in York, as you do! I didn't take a photo as it was dark!

We see a fair few USA plates around the York and Harrogate areas, given that the listening post at Menwith Hill is not too distant...

According to an article on the York Mix website (News, etc. from around the York area), it has been withdrawn by Network Rail to allow them to consider the accessibility of the proposed footbridge:

You could well be correct. I never really used to read that bit, I would generally just skip straight to the table I required.

Well into the past now, but the paddle steamers from Kingston-upon-Hull to New Holland Pier that were operated by BR were a very pleasant way of crossing the Humber.

I don't remember ever seeing street maps in the GBPT, but there were certainly some in the Thomas Cook (as was!) European Timetable for some of the larger cities with station-to-station interchanges. GBPT: Great Britain Passenger Timetable

There's a couple of preserved SNCV lines as well, at Thuin (southwest of Charleroi) and Érezée (in the Aisne valley, between Liège and Bastogne - not too far from the Grottes de Han). The line at Thuin has steam, diesel and electric trams, Érezée appears to be purely diesel.

The line all the way from Durrës to Tiranë has been closed for some time for rebuilding, including a new alignment and terminus at the Tiranë end. If/when it will reopen is anybody's guess, but don't hold your breath/make any plans...

That doesn't even have a railway line at the moment, never mind any trains!

It was 16th June 2017. there was some snow at the side of the road (and on the peaks!) but the roads were clear. The Critérium du Dauphiné had been that way the previous week, so I knew it was clear! Vaguely on-topic: I had travelled down to Briançon on the overnight service - couchette...