Luxembourg and a bit of Belgium mileage help needed
Hi all, Looking for help finishing my non tram/Metro moves from my Benelux Interrail trip,unfortunately the Thomas Cook timetable isn't helpful on these bits I need.They are: Brussels Nord to...
View ArticleVirgin Recruitment Event
Hi guys and Gals, I'm really new to all this forum stuff but could do with some advice on the above. I applied for Revenue Protection Customer Service Assistant vacancy and now have been invited to the...
View ArticleBeer/Real Ale
Hope this thread is acceptable. Which beers do you like? In an attempt to break out of a lager rut I've been attempting to find other beers and so far I've enjoyed: Thornbridge Chiron (American pale...
View ArticleCompetition 712 :: Railway cuttings
Railway cuttings (e.g. trains passing through a cutting). Entries by 1900 next Sunday please. http://www.railforums.co.uk/gallery Cheers
View ArticleCompetition 711 (Track Workers) :: Voting
http://www.railforums.co.uk/gallery/....php?album=316 Votes by 1900 next Sunday please Cheers
View ArticleBBC Television Centre: Your Views
With BBC Television Centre broadcasting for the last time tonight and set to close by the end of the month, I wondered what your views are on its closure. Most of the BBC programmes including Blue...
View ArticleDrunks and beggars - what to do?
Hello everyone - longtime lurker and rail enthusiast here. I'm currently on a Southern train from London Victoria. Before we got to Clapham Junction we had already had two incidents - a beggar, and...
View Article"CSN Day Single" from Underground station
The other day I bought a CSN Day Single from an Underground station to a station in the NSE area. It was printed on Underground ticket stock and accepted by the guard on the National Rail train. It...
View ArticleGraham Rd Curve
With Boris and Co. still angling to take over services from Liverpool St to Enfield and Chingford at some point does anyone know if that might mean regular services over the Graham Rd curve again and...
View ArticleFTPE BR class 170 and 185's?
Hi All, I understand that these 2 classes of trains operate between Manchester and Warrington? I am looking to commute a mix of bike/train and, assuming there is space and the Guard allows me and the...
View ArticleMetropolitan Line Car 25012
Does anyone know whether it was delivered as 25012 or as 23012, and if the latter, when it was fitted with de-icing equipment? Cheers
View ArticleBizarre ticketing prices today
OK, working in Sheffield today and because of the weather being rubbish went by train. Got on and the conductor (one of the best I've seen in ages on Northern) said did I know about a 'quirk' in the...
View ArticleAdditional XC HST ECS Working 17/03/13
Following the failure of 43357 at Exeter last Saturday whilst working the 0632 Dundee-Plymouth with 43285, the train was terminated at Newton Abbot (as 285 could not be expected to climb the Devon...
View ArticleHooton to Liverpool on the Halton Curve
I have just found this on the Helsby Parish Council minutes for March . Liverpool Airport to mark 80 years of the opening, a special train would be laid on from Hooton Liverpool Parkway known as...
View ArticleRowdy Rails : 37606 Alone on Engineers
DRS' 37606 was trusted to work solo on a fully loaded train of continuous welded rail train along the ECML from Tyne Yard to Doncaster, not an opportunity to be passed by, regardless of the rather...
View ArticleBirchwood to Crewe Return
Today I looked on Transpennine Express' Websit, www.tpexpress.co.uk, and it showed a return from Birchwood to Crewe on the 08:40, changing at Liverpool South Parkway for £11. I later searched the same...
View Articlee320/Class 374 Eurostars - What will happen to Class 373?
I was down at KGX today and decided to pop my head into St Pancras for a quick look around. It got me thinking about how nice the e320's would look when they go into service on the Eurostar routes....
View ArticleCard rejected at station
Just curious about what my rights were in the situation I was in this morning. The station I travel from doesn't have a ticket machine or a ticket office and is normally totally unmanned, but during...
View ArticleTake The Train Bizarre Routing
Hi all, Just been looking at trains from INV - MAN out of general interest and I found a site called takethetrain.com. If I enter my journey details it throws up some rather unusual routing, including...
View ArticleNorthern rail strike ?
Anyone heard that the Rmt are to ballot northern rail staff for industrial action over the use of agency staff on their network ?
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