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What a memory you must have! Remembering when trains ran on the Marston Vale line after 6pm.

Bedford. 5 Platforms, 6 lines (including the Bletchley line)

It was on page 13 of the March edition. I won't mention who wrote it but the website exists.

In a letter in the March edition of "Kempston Calling" someone from BootRouteE.co.uk states that "This makes Bedford Midland a prime target to become a freight marshalling yard, like Cricklewood". Scaremongering, with totally incorrect facts, at its best.

The following is showing up today on the BBC website. "Seven trains carrying crates of food for the hauliers have left London in the past 48 hours, with the Salvation Army distributing the items." Is this just a reporter getting things wrong it did it really happen? Merry Christmas to one and all.

I think that has solved the problem. Many thanks.

Thanks for that, I will send her a picture of 66745!

A 69 year old lady contacted me yesterday (18th) to find out what train had just passed Richmond (London) at about 1420 towards Twickenham. Her description was "It was all dark and light blue with flashes on it, pulling 3 or 4 carriage lengths". Today she told me she had investigated and found...

Stewartby, on the Bedford to Bletchley line, was in 1935 named after Sir Halley Stewart, director of Forders brickworks and then the London Brick Company. As they were making a half a million bricks every year the station must be linked to thousands of buildings!

In the early 1960's the Bedford to Bletchley line had a Saturday only service only as far as Woburn Sands. I know as we were kicked off there after a days spotting at Bletchley. At just over 4 miles was this one of the shortest non branch line journeys?

Does anyone on this forum really believe that the Oxford to Cambridge route will be up and running in their lifetime? I'm 71 and I doubt I will see passenger trains running a regular service from Oxford to Bedford. The Borders Line in Scotland opened only after 20 years of active campaigning. I...