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This thread may have been done before, but not for a while. Stabling aside, which stations could easily lose a platform or two without negatively impacting services? Penrith is an obvious one (is platform 3 even booked for anything?) and so is Stirling (9 platforms, and the morning starters...

Sorry if a similar thread has already been done, but it was prompted by somebody mentioning Sankey and Penketh (sic) station in another thread. The actual name of the station: Sankey for Penketh. However, as someone with knowledge of the area (my great uncle lived in Sankey his whole life)...

Recently I saw a Great Western network map (1930s, the one on the Wikipedia page) that shows Chester to Manchester via Warrington Bank Quay was part of the Great Western. I always, rightly or wrongly, assumed that it was an LMS route. 1. Was it a joint route? 2. If it was a Great Western...

When I was younger, these were my favourite stations to go to: 1. Manchester Victoria 2. Perth (depot and carriage sidings highly visible from the platforms) 3. Chester These stations are not 'well-organised' or architecturally coherent (unlike, for instance, Coventry) and routinely called...

There has been a lot of discussion on here about stations that should be renumbered, and the general consensus is it is not really worth the massive cost and disruption to long-standing systems that function well enough but may confuse the occasional passenger. But what about the opposite...

I used to rip these off the windows when I was a kid in the 80s/early 90s. When a train had reached its destination of course, not before. I wish I'd kept some of them, and would love to see people's examples, if anyone has any photos. The most unusual one I remember having was a Llandudno -...

Another thread got me thinking... From Chester it's possible to go to Manchester via Northwich or via Warrington with a reasonably frequent service. Similarly, journeys to Liverpool via Birkenhead or Runcorn. Which other cities are joined with similar competing routes?

Sorry if this has been done before but... Stirling (I appreciate some may be used for stabling) - 9 last time I counted.

I was born in 1980 and remember we usually used to travel into Manchester Victoria from Warrington Bank Quay (with my mum to go shopping in the 'big city') in the 1980s, presumably because of the ease of access/car parking at Bank Quay compared to Central if coming from the south side of town...

Why does Inverness have roughly twice as many daily services to Edinburgh? I appreciate that Edinburgh is the capital, but in Glasgow is a more populous city. It also contains the two football clubs who command by far the biggest crowds in Scottish football. As Inverness is pretty much...

Bill Bryson alluded to this when he went to Retford, thinking it was a significant place, due to it being marked in large bold letters on the old passenger network map. Recently discovered Fishguard is a town of only 3,000 people (much smaller than I imagined) and a 1-platform station that...

Another thread got me thinking. Warrington is now a very large town with a diversified economy (210,000) and many inbound commuters. Yet there are a number of towns close by with a direct connection but no (or infrequent) direct service: Hartford (really part of Northwich, population 47,000)...

Could anyone please possibly help to settle a dispute? I am arguing with a mate and I am sure that when we used to go away to the rugby in Hull we would catch a direct train from Warrington Central in the early-mid 90s. He reckons we always changed trains. Is there any way I can find out who is...