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So. I vividly recall getting a copy of the Railway Magazine for Christmas, roundabout 1980, that had an article in it about a trip up the Far North line which - I think - had the author riding in the cab. From very vague memory it was a morning service from Inverness, with newspapers / parcels...

This reminded me that I've thought similarly a few times over recent months reading some of the threads posted on here. What do people think is the threshold where an administrative disposal is no longer acceptable?

I’m travelling York to Todmorden on a Northern only advance, bought via their app. For some reason, in this direction it always puts the change from the York - Blackpool onto a Calder Valley at Leeds, which is a bit of a faff compared to Halifax or Hebden Bridge where it’s obviously always...

I’ve just been on a 4 car train on the Manchester - Todmorden - Blackburn route and there were announcements that only 3 cars would fit in the platform at Burnley Manchester Road. For the principal station in a decent sized (~90,000 population) town this seems somehow insufficient. Are there...

Just come south on 1P20, which is fast Northallerton to York, yet it went onto the up slow and lost 15 minutes by the time it got to York. Nothing overtook it on the fast line

I wonder if I might get some advice / info from the forum's cognoscenti..... I'm booked on the 08:59 Grand Central from Halifax to London tomorrow (28th). Because I'm a bit OCDish I checked everything was OK this morning and discovered the train was cancelled, which was a bit of a shock. Some...

mods note - split from this thread We never needed a triple lock, it was always a sop to pensioners. All that’s needed is a guaranteed link between pensions and the true cost of living

So. Lots of threads end up talking about the current definition of the timetable being that published at 22:00 on the day prior to travel. But how reasonable is that? Obviously it depends on the journey. One extreme might be the first Wick train out of Inverness; if that’s cancelled it’s a...

Two things I noticed buying a ticket From Todmorden to Halifax just now. I’ve attached photos to illustrate. 1 - the list of stations on the “quick buy” tab is insane. It includes New Pudsey and (even more bizarrely) Bramley, but doesn’t include Manchester, Burnley, Halifax, Bradford or Leeds...

A hypothetical question for you. Lets assume all 22 Deltics are still operational, and none have what you might call a terminal illness - doubtless some will be in better health than others, but all have two working engines and no major known faults It’s decided that they will all be withdrawn...

Collected my ticket earlier for Edinburgh to Preston. Bought from Avanti's website, and an advance Avanti-only fare. Just noticed the physical ticket says "Avanti West Coast only", and then "16:52 Virgin Trains" for the service. Surely this sort of stuff should have been tidied up ages ago...

My parents travelled from Manchester to Coventry this afternoon, with the return half of an any permitted return from Wolverhampton to Manchester and their local authority free OAP passes between Wolverhampton and Coventry. They were on the 1427, which was delayed at Stafford and then diverted...

I’ve used Northern’s 195s a lot over the last couple of years, but this week is the first time I’ve been on any of GA’s 755s. So I thought I’d compare them from a passenger’s point of view. My original plan had been to score them in various categories, but I soon gave up on that when it became...

When I was a teenager in the mid-80s I spent a lot of time going up and down between Coventry and Birmingham. I did it this afternoon for the first time in probably 25 years and found an awful lot has changed. For a start, the level crossings at Canley and Tile Hill have been replaced with...

There’s currently a sprinter sat in platform 2 (the east facing bay) at Rochdale, which as far as I’m aware only gets used as an emergency turnback when the timetable goes into meltdown. Anybody have any idea why it’s there?

Booked Preston to Glasgow in early October, taking my bike. Booked online with no issues at all, and got the confirmation email with everything correct - tickets, seat reservations, bike place reserved. Went to collect the tickets from my local station and the machine said there were 3 tickets...

A question that’s occurred to me having seen a “to let” sign on a potential retail unit at Manchester Victoria..... The to let sign is in the joint names of Northern and a letting agent, but (I presume) the station is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern. Assuming that’s right.... -...

So, Northern are chronically short of units, yet the number of shortforms showing on their journey check page is tiny most days. I travel on the Calder valley route most days and there are noticeably more two carriage journeys than in the recent past. For example, I’m posting this whilst...

I’m planning a trip from Todmorden to Scotland, and the itinerary I’ve got involves changes at Burnley or Blackburn and then Preston, with a 15 minute connection onto the train to Glasgow. Given how poor Northern’s service has been, it’s quite possible one of their services will be cancelled...

I’d always assumed that since privatisation locos/units/etc were owned by rolling stocks leading companies, but the post on the GWR sleeper thread about the pair of 08s for sale mentions that the agent is instructed by GWR, implying they’re the owners. Is this right? If so, how widespread is...