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I am getting a new computer in the next few weeks, I used to play train sim a while back and look forward to playing it again soon...Couple of questions 1. Would it be better getting a PC or Laptop... 2. If I opted for a PC, are they cheap to get custom built or would be best off checking...

I am going to Greenock 2 weeks tomorrow and was wondering where to look for the quickest way and cheapest tickets to get there. Many thanks Sent from my SM-N9005 using Tapatalk

Apologies if this is posted in the wrong place...Feel free to put it in the appropriate place... Not sure if I have asked before, but I am wondering about Disabled Railcards and eligibility for them... As I like to go out and about all over the place, I am restricted at the moment because I am...

Looks like the Maltese are Cross after Arriva sent a load of bendy buses after BoJo wanted rid...Tourists are even threatening a boycott. Tourists visiting Malta driven round the bendby the unpopular buses that BoJo rejected

Every now and again, I get some really daft thoughts running through my head and yesterday was no different, me and a mate, who is a bus driver, got talking about why they wave to each other and he did not know. A guy I know who is now an inspector, once reckoned he was once told it started as a...

Is there many services across the country that stop at the same station twice in a short space of time, I know some metro systems do this(T&W) but does it happen on the mainline. I got a train from Seaham to Thirsk 11 years ago and on the outward it went into Middlesbrough, stopping at Thornaby...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23042109 Should he be allowed to be in control of his own demise or should he be kept alive, personally I say let the b*****d die, but do a deal with the authorities, he pin points exactly where Keith Bennett is and when found, he can be left to rot and die

Just heard on the news about rioting in Brazil, one of its causes is bus fares rising... What a lame reason to riot. Could you imagine if, say Stagecoach decide to put 10p on single fare and 50000 ****ed off bus users take to the streets and riot

I am not actually in trouble, but want to ask about something that happened to me at Durham about 7 years ago. Coming back from Newcastle one afternoon to Durham, I left my ticket on the train, my mate who was travelling on to Darlington and she had hold of my ticket and I forgot to get it off...

http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/business/fresh-plans-to-extend-sunderland-metro-link-into-washington-1-5527589 Wonder if this will ever come off, it is been talked to happen by 2032

Just been reading the bus journies quicker than train thead and it had me thinking, excluding LU and metro/tram type systems is there any stations close enough to each other that it would be quicker to walk between than get the train, given that a train has to stop, set down, pick up and get...

Not sure if this should go into the railways in tv/film thread, but I Was watching old episodes of Spender w/Jimmy Nail and the times he goes in Newcastle on a train it is to/from platform 8 or 9, which actually looks like platforms 2 and 3, is that a mistake or has Newcastle Platforms been...

Hi, I hope it is ok to post this topic, I hope I am not being insensitive in posting this, I apologise if this is the case. I would like to know if anyone here has been witness to a suicide on the Tube, I only ask because many years ago, I witnessed a death at Kings Cross St Pancras...

Hey guys Need some advice, I might be coming into a few quid this year if I win a personal injury claim I am pursuing and if I win, I am planning to embark on a little holiday for a few weeks and intend to do some travelling on the Railways, some ideas I am interested in is a UK wide rail tour...

Hi, can someone help me, what diversions was used when the ECML was getting electrified, I ask because the village where I live had a little used single freight line used by coal trains till the late 80s or very early 90s. To this day I am absolutely adamant I once saw and HST pass through one...

Does anyone know if there is work being done on the Leamside Line, going towards Durham earlier on the bus and saw 2 people in hi-vis vests on the line... Being the suspicious person I am, I was thinking they were up to no good Sent from my HTC Wildfire S A510e using Tapatalk 2

Scottish indepemdence has been on another board regarding railways, I brought the Military issue here to to keep the other thread on topic. What will happen to the forces, we have Faslane Navy Base for Nuclear Subs, and there has always been opposition to that place, we got RAF bases army...

Just wondering about where can a concessionary pass be used on the Railways... I have a Concessionary Pass for my disability and I have in the past been entitled use it in my local area on the Railways to get a half price fare, I have a Co. Durham Pass and when I first got the pass in 2009 it...

Hope this is in the right section, Me and my mate were about late running trains and what happens if you miss a last connection i.e the last bus home... In 2010 I was coming home from York to Durham, the train had been delayed because of a fatality and when I got to Durham I had missed the last...

Was in Seaham the other day and saw an all yellow train, looked like an HST possibly, I recall seeing it in the past but cant remember what its purpose is