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  1. CheekyBandit

    Major Signalling Loss at Sheffield (10/02/2024)

    Doubt it - Quite a few years ago I tried to report a trespass incident in the Nunnery Mainline Jn area (I witnessed it from a car park overlooking the line there) to the BTP (using the rail specific location and city). After getting through on the national number I got told by the person on the...
  2. CheekyBandit

    [Trivia] Things that are illegal on the railway that you don't expect to be.

    In my experience I got told off (when a few loud mouthed and drunk football yobs which I found annoying) by train company officials for quoting bye-laws that didn't exist. If I didn't have a flat battery on my phone I would have shown the the actual document.
  3. CheekyBandit

    (Trivia) Railway stations which should be people

    Keighley (https://www.thebump.com/b/keighley-baby-name) also qualifies as a first name. Had a colleague called this.
  4. CheekyBandit

    Most hated non-UK station

    Brussels-Congress - closest station to where I had a conference and wanted to get to the airport one weekday morning.
  5. CheekyBandit

    Trivia: Nearest station you haven't used?

    Attercliffe Road before it closed (I think I have only ever been on one train that stopped there). Now Dore and Totley. In other places I have lived at the time these were Ham Street and Maidstone Barracks (though the latter I have used since I left the area).
  6. CheekyBandit

    RPI blitz at Derby this evening.

    What about a footbridge like the one at St Neots? Also at Sheffield I have often sneaked out of the station via the 'secret' exit on the northern end of P1 unchallenged. It is a handy short cut to the bus station from a train at that platform amd when traffic on the main road is light.
  7. CheekyBandit

    passenger confusion over trains going to similar sounding destinations

    Asked the conductor for a ticket from Mansfield Woodhouse to Worksop a few years ago and he kept muttering "Woodhouse" to himself several times while trying to find the station on the ticket machine. Might have had a problem if I got a ticket from WDH.
  8. CheekyBandit

    Doctor Who - What type of train was that?

    We do get aliens in Sheffield. They come from Barnsley. :D:D:D:D:D:D:D
  9. CheekyBandit

    Doctor Who - What type of train was that?

    It could have been diverted e.g. if roads on the 98's normal southbound route were closed to traffic (not uncommon) it would have likely called at the interchange. I have caught the 52/52a from the interchange a few times before.
  10. CheekyBandit

    Trains are better than the stress of flying, anyone agree?

    Have found flying sometimes stressful - using Michael O'Leary's rust buckets coming back from Brussels in 2002. A Nightmare trying to find a bus to rubbish Charleroi airport and when I got there the monitors were showing the wrong check-in desk. I had to holler to those waiting by the closed...
  11. CheekyBandit

    Most Misleading Railway Advertising?

    Southeastern posters advertising Leeds Castle. Nearest station Bearsted. Hollingbourne is actually closer - there is a footpath from the station (the short section up the bank isn't strictly a public one) to the lower part of the village then road onwards.
  12. CheekyBandit

    FANTASY: You're in charge of your own Open Access operator.

    Bugger off. I want a plate of pie and peas. A plate of pie and peeeeeeeaaaaasss. (Scott Doonican/Paul McCartney) It be useful if it connected with flights:
  13. CheekyBandit

    FANTASY: You're in charge of your own Open Access operator.

    I'd start the rail service from Huntingdon (new platforms using the sidings just north with access from Ringo Car Park?) with a connecting express service to Bridge Street (just past the bus gate), using the busway without going round the houses, then Round Church Street/Park Street/Jesus Lane...
  14. CheekyBandit

    New Stations fund - next list announced

    By the same logic East Midlands Parkway is equally ridiculous - the name doesn't locate that station either. Technically it could be anywhere in an area of about 6000 square miles. IMHO it should have been named Middle of Nowhere Parkway
  15. CheekyBandit

    Railway Freebie Stories

    Got a cheap first class return upgrade some 20 years ago in Virgin XC (as it was then) Sheffield - Winchester. The freebie was a can of booze on the return journey as the aircon failed. Another was a friend of mine (who was travelling with me) got the same Young Persons Railcard discount (early...
  16. CheekyBandit

    St Pancras renamed St.Patricks

    Been done at other stations such as Ramsgate and Stratford International (http://*******/2nNyJB5).
  17. CheekyBandit

    Trivia: shortest possible journey that can be made on each TOC?

    NCE-GMD is the closest out of the two pairings - . But both still beaten by some Manchester pairings.
  18. CheekyBandit

    Trivia: Nicknames we use

    390 - Vomit Comet.
  19. CheekyBandit

    Train v National Express Coach v Plane

    Used to use National Express every other week between Sheffield and London to watch the footy - going out on an early morning departure and coming back on the 2000 return service same day enabling me to catch the last bus home. The return coach often decided to make an unscheduled call at the...

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