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Apparently using coal mined locally is bad for the environment, but letting another country do it and then importing it into the UK is fine. Also, jobs don't matter if they are mining coal. Unless its the early 80's, then it really matters.

Interesting. Did those "All The Stations" people I've seen do it this way. I find that incredible if they got off at every single station and waited for another service. Certainly if I attempted to do this, my version would be get off, run to the station sign, take selfie photo, run back onto...

May I ask the rules on "ticking off a station". Do you have to board/disembark/both for it to "count"? Can you quickly get on and off the same train for it to count? Do you have to spend a certain amount of time there? Any other "rules" ? Genuinely interested in how this works.

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Afternoon all Spotted this through Bamber Bridge 600R 1246 Carlisle N.Y. to Crewe Bas Hall S.S.M Too far from level crossing to ID but it was a TPE 68 and DB Red 66.

90030 has been in store for 14 years, and appears to be decided upon for comeback. Surprisingly good news. I think there are more plans for Electric hauled freight flows up/down the WCML. Freightliner have more loco's available with 86's and 90's. If DB want more business they need the ability...

Thanks Peter. The age isn't an issue I don't think, so if I purchased Train Sim 2020 I can download an "older" add-on of the VT Pendolino?

Hey all, my nephew is obsessed with very specifically the Class 390 Pendolino in Virgin livery. Yep, doesn't count in Green or unbranded - has to be Virgin. Voyagers are no good either. He is getting a PS4 for his 7th birthday next week. I said I'd get him this game so he can drive the...

Us Northerners are happy for the hipsters to stay down there. No problem to us. And the food is decent, and less expensive thanks.

Can't believe they are scrapping Pacers when they are the only DMUs capable of running upside down.

Saw 142019 just last Saturday in Preston. It was stabled at the North end of the station adjacent to the old RES platform. A surprise because it was a Heaton unit, only the second time I'd seen it since my 2016 comeback, the other time being at Lincoln Central in 2017. As it stands, its the...

Not illegal to take a photo of a train is it? :p

I'm in Glasgow on the most random of trips, nephew loves Pendolino so much we are all jumping on a train to Glasgow and back to Preston in the same day for a last hurrah on Virgin Trains. According to him, they HAVE to be Virgin Pendolino's (he's only 7). Thought though I might have a sniff of...

Saw them this morning but couldn't ID them. The joys of dropping my daughter off at nursery :)

Back on 8th November whilst waiting for my Euston train at Preston, early morning (7.30ish) - in came 68022 with a MK5 rake. Clearly on test of some kind. My query is why are they testing this from Manchester - Carlisle? I thought 68's were for Scarborough / Yorkshire services only? Not WCML work?

It was a badly photoshopped Pendolino I'll admit, but the article is about the Grand Central plans from May 2020, not the Virgin franchise. Up here its common knowledge as being confirmed, they already have drivers and staff under contract.

https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/business/five-new-direct-trains-from-blackpool-to-london-are-confirmed-from-next-year-1-9838499 Its all in progress currently. Don't sweat.

Love this debate. Politically correctness kills a lot of common sense. I believe all disabled users should be able to access train travel safely and effectively, but to block a sensible stop-gap for 99.9% of travellers because of 0.01% is silly. As was mentioned earlier, a non-compliant train...

70817, saw it at Strand Road myself :)

:D I saw them in my initial Spotting career from 1992 to 1999, but not in my new one since 2016 :)