Recent content by james60059

Ah yes I forgot that one. Rugeley has faired better than Atherstone then in that respect.

Social media users will need another loco now to be the butt of all jokes and memes.....

I'd say stations like Atherstone on the Trent Valley has improved which has enjoyed an hourly service since 2007, when prior to that only a handful of trains called. Even then many were bustituted when the WCML upgrade was taking place.

Don't forget that a lot of people are too precious about having someone sat near them too and will occupy seats with bags etc. There's been instances of individuals having a bay of 4 to themselves and telling people to stay away.

For me, the early years of privatisation with the combination of new liveries mixed with Intercity branded stock, such as Virgin/Intercity, or even when operators changed their liveries with trains running a mixture of old/new liveries.

I think North of Crewe there's also some pretty decent inclines where a single 90 on a box jockey might struggle :smile:

Same situation as me, I live in Hinckley, and work at Bermuda Park - OK both have railway stations but would involve a change at Nuneaton (if only the direct Nottingham - Coventry's were still running :lol:). I work what's called the late shift from 12:30 until 21:30, so for me, the car wins...

There's still a fair few precious people about, bless them. My response would be that if you're that scared of being near others, then stay at home, happened once or twice over the Summer when I was gallavanting about on a rover tickets.

You could also include maybe the line from Heaton Norris Junction to just before Reddish South which is 3 tracks, although admittedly it does become single track.

On occasions, Arriva Trains Wales (now Transport for Wales) have usually held the Fishguard Harbour train at Swansea for the incoming GWR service from London Paddington if that was late.

You could probably argue Barnetby being 4 tracks plus however many sidings, but since freight has decreased dramatically over the last couple of years, maybe 4 tracks is now too much?

This "reservations compulsory" is a load of rubbish. Even when XC and LNER were "reservations compulsory", people were still using bought on-the-day tickets and rovers without reserving - I was one of them - and had no issues whatsoever

Lovely photo, thank you for sharing :). Thank You everyone for the replies too.

Just out of interest, when the colliery (near Stoke-on-Trent) was open, whereabouts did the coal go?, I'm assuming it was power station bound. Got me thinking as there was a North facing chord on the West Coast Mainline at Madeley, apart from Fiddlers Ferry, can't think of any more in that...

Not as good as me, I went on a Class 172 from Nuneaton to Leamington Spa when I did a HofE Rover earlier this year, there was a gentleman, who was occupying a bay of 4 seats - no issue as there was plenty of seats to go round, I sat 2 rows behind and he got up, huffing and puffing, and uttering...