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I have a mystery I wonder if anyone can assist with. My wife and I borh have ITSO type bus passes issued by Leeds council. We have them as we are registered blind. Within West Yorkshire they allow us to take a companion on the bus with us. I believe the graphic top right on the picture of my...

I have not been able to find the answer to this. Can a WYMetro blind / companion pass be used on Grand Central trains within the West Yorkshire area? The pass allows free travel on rail services in the area but as Grand Central is an open access operator I don’t know if they have to also allow...

I am a user of the line from Scarborough to York and would be interested in knowing more about it and any developments going forward. I have read it’s history & note in the past how much bigger Scarborough station was and the other routes that joined the line and how it has declined with the...

I appreciate there is no easy fix for when delays happen, but one can understand why members of the public get annoyed at the railway companies. Unfortunately, tonight a train broke down at Seamer and this meant the line between Scarborough and York and Scarborough and Bridlington was blocked...

Strange request perhaps, but has anyone got any pictures of the old departure board at Kings Cross that was in the 1970s concourse building that has been replaced by the new concourse? Thanks

The BBC London Transport correspondents is reporting a Chiltern service took a wrong signal at Chalfont and Latimer on the Metropolitan line and came very close to a Met line train. This seems rather worrying. https://twitter.com/BBCTomEdwards/status/1275110168104239110

I went to school in the Coventry area in the 1970s. We would sometimes go and see what was happening at the sidings at what I think was called 3 Spies Junction. This is where the line from the Kersley Coal Mine joined the Coventry to Nuneaton line. The line went from there over a level crossing...

Wycombe station is built on a stagger, so if you want to go from the main entrance to platform 3 for faster trains to London, it's quite a walk to the end of platform 2, then over the bridge to platform 3. But it also can be a long walk to a London bound train on platform 1 as if it is a short...

Today, March 29, I caught the 16:35 from Kidderminster to Dorrigde. I was surprised to see the third carriage was a class 153, a separate unit. When I got of at Smethwick G Bridge I am pretty sure the front unit was a 170. I travel to and from Kidderminster about once every 2 weeks and...

On 10 October, at around 2pm, I believe I saw a red class 67 on the "London" end of an LNER train in platform 6 at Leeds. i believe 91105 was at the buffers and the class 67 was attached to the dvt at the other end. If what I saw was correct, I was puzzled by the composition of the train. If...

I am sure there is a simple answer to this, but it is not obvious to me! On the Grand Central class 180s, where in them is their actual number? I pass them at Kings X and can never see the 180nnn anywhere!

According to a report in the Bucks Free press newspaper, strange blue lights seen in the sky the other evening over parts of Oxfordshire and Bucks were cashed by a train shining a blue light from its roof. Any ideas what this train was? Article link...

For the past 9 months I have had to travel quite a few times to Kidderminster from Birmingham Snow Hill. I have noticed on approaching Stourbridge Junction from Birmingham (and going the other way) the trains runs very slowly approaching the points. I think I have spotted some speed...

On certain mornings a train calls at West Hampstead at 08:38 on route to Willesden Junction Low Level. It is a 2 car class 172 set as used on the GOBLIN. When the GOBLIN was open, it ran almost everyday, but since the GOBLIN has been closed it appeared not to run. But over the past month or...

It seems an Arriva bus caught fire yesterday (20 July) http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/13465848.Pictures_and_video__Fire_crews_tackle_bus_fire/ The report says I hope everyone was OK, I think it was a service 1 (Chesham / High Wycome) When a bus catchs fire, they do seem to go up in a...

Story from local papers http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/11845446.Bus_blocking_main_road/ http://www.getbucks.co.uk/incoming/bus-jackknife-a413-causes-traffic-8812214 One headline reports a bus jackknifed, I was not aware this could happen? I wonder what really happened.

As I am not very technically minded, I was wondering how multiple engines on trains are controlled to ensure they are all providing power and not being dragged or pshed by another. What I mean by this is when a train is being doubled headed by locomotives, or the various different engines on a...

I came across the attached snap from i think the late 1970s. I think it is showing the wiring of the overhead system being put in at Kings Cross. I remember at the time watching trains with men standing on the roof!

Not a great picture, but I think once this type of telegraph pole was seen a lot at the side of railway lines. Are there many left around the country? This one is the only one I have spotted and is between Amersham and Chalfont & Latimer on the Metropolitan Line

When I go to Leeds, I get the impression there are more orange Centrebus services being run, but they seem to be the less popular evening routes, or is that just my perception. Are Centrebus taking over routes from First?