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I can tell you it was the 16.10 Crewe to Newark Castle on Thursday 1st June 2023. I'm afraid I can't tell you if Peartree was a scheduled stop or not for that train; perhaps someone else can assist in that?
Purely by chance I happened to be on that train from Crewe to Derby.
Portillo boarded with his team of three a couple of stops after leaving Crewe and did some filming on board. When we stopped at Peartree, he was filmed leaving the train. He then quickly got back on it again, and the train...
Two signals inside Totley tunnel is surprising to this observer from the south west. Not sure an extended signal stop within the tunnel would be much fun for anyone. Can't be easy to maintain either.
Indeed. Merseyrail & Transport for Wales are not on strike at all. Great Western Railway are not on strike on 5th April; although there is an overtime ban in place.
So the journey is physically do-able via Chester & Hereford (although GWR's services are infrequent on this route). Just a matter...
Thanks for all your advice.
I've now solved it with the help of the User's Guide menu. I'm glad I won't now be in danger of running out of camera memory on holiday!
I have a Sony DSC-HX200V camera that's quite a few years old now.
Typically, the pictures taken using it have been about 800 KB - 1.1 MB. Recently, inadvertantly, I ended up in the settings menu, and getting back out of that I seem to have changed something. Pictures taken now are enormous: 4.5...
And parts of the Rame peninsular, west of the Tamar, were in Devon - Kingsand & Mount Edgcumbe, hence this sign on the wall in Cawsand/Kingsand beside the Halfway House Inn
The trains will certainly not be empty, but you should be alright at these times I'd of thought, it really boils down to how much personal space you want to make it acceptable. I suspect, reading between the lines, you may perhaps only feel comfortable with more space than I personally need?
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You won't find the trains "quiet"; these routes are well used all year round, but there's generally seats to be had, but see below:
Exeter Central is the main destination for most people on these local routes. More people get on/off these trains there than at St. David's...