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Used this for several years. Totally free program from Microsoft who have now discontinued it and not provided any replacement. Can anyone suggest a similar program that is genuinely free as the Microsoft one was? The Microsoft program is still available but only from a third party source...

Unexpected hostility. Not always obvious what a thread is about until you click on it. The first post asked what people thought and I was offering an opinion. No need for the sharp tone. Jeez.

Blood boils on reading posts from people arriving at their destination with no ticket and deliberately giving an incorrect starting point when challenged, then coming on here talking about their "mistake". A mistake is something unintentional. Giving false information to an authorized official...

I would say the vital part of operating a train SAFELY is maintaining your concentration and alertness throughout the time the train is in operation whether you are hauling passengers or freight. The Hinton Rail Disaster (Canada 1986) seems to highlight a need for there to be a mandatory...

I would say highly unlikely. You hold a Highland Railcard and as far as I can see Glasgow is in the West Central Lowlands.

1. There are many London Underground stations served by one line serving one destination at each end. 2. You want to slow trains down simply because you don't like the noise of the train hurtling over the bridge? Amazing. 3. The station plan I am looking at shows no bay platforms. Just four...

Thanks Ash Bridge. May all your rail journeys be fast and smooth

Just saying hi. Barney Fisher. 45-year old American guy based in Wilmington DE (Delaware). Just looking around for a week or so before my next post. I think of myself as a novice rail fan. The interest and fascination is there but not the knowledge. Wondering why your main line trains seem...

Where are these jobs advertised? Must bag me one. Get some miles in and get paid at the same time while I wend my weary rubber gloved way down the train.

Personally, I would say "The Brittas Empire" currently showing on GOLD

I am a creature of habit, always arriving at the terminal station a good 20 minutes before departure time. My trips to Leeds are always by early morning trains 05:50, 06:30 or 07:05 to make the most of my first day (of three) there. I don't travel in December, but in January and February, the...

Just discovered I can get an Arriva bus from Leeds to Wakefield and then a Yorkshire Tiger from Wakefield to Holmfirth - and back again - all on a £2* PlusBus. But is a visit to Holmfirth still worthwhile in terms of things to see? *with Railcard

The indicator for Wakefield Westgate Station seems a fair distance away from the station itself. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Wakefield+Westgate+Station/@53.6816389,-1.5075944,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x487966fd2929d3ed:0x91838ab3b26b65f2?hl=en

When you know you have a valid ticket in your pocket, you can sit back, relax and enjoy the journey. When you don't have a ticket, you are tense and nervous. Perhaps even mentally sh-tting yourself on hearing any authoritative sounding voice in the vicinity. Surely the transfer of a small...

SPADTrap. Great comment and amusing signature BTW

Regular visitor to Leeds. Always get the 19:45 back to London. It usually sits in Platform 6 for 25-30 minutes before departure but not last week. As we were finally allowed onto the platform at around 19:32, the set was just pulling in loaded with passengers. Surprisingly, we departed dead...

So AndrewE. what do you call the human beings travelling with the driver. PASSENGERS. Payment has been made for passage on the train and so everyone is a passenger.

Could some kind person provide a link to these "Maps" OwlMan refers to? Thank you in advance.

Am I correct in thinking that such a ticket is valid for use only on the one most logical routeing KGX-SVG-PBO-GRA-NNG-RET-DON-WKF and not valid for an indirect journey such as STP-SHF and SHF-LDS?