Recent content by P Binnersley

Blake Street and Four Oaks stations on the Cross City line are inside the West Midlands Combined Authority area and have free parking. There may be a charge for driving through the Birmingham Clean Air Zone if your car in non-compliant. The Zone is within the "Middleway" ring road and includes...

Eurostar recommended Check in Times are:

The TimeAndDate website gives times for the eclipse with direction (almost due west) and angle above the horizon (5-10%), together with the probability of it being cloudy. The main criteria is to find somewhere with an good unobstructed view west. I saws the 1999 eclipse near Munich and it...

Still Open according to the ORR Website. Now more than 3 months past the extended compliance date. What options does the ORR have now other than fining Network Rail or a Prohibition notice shutting down Euston?

A Two-Together railcard required a passport sized photo of each applicant. No photograph is required for a senior railcard.

10:02 is for Outward travel. This is the return portion of the ticket and restriction 7E states:= As he was arriving at St Pancras after 08:46 there should not be a problem with this restriction.

IRCAS have a form that you can complete online. It also allows at least two attachments.

Signal 33 has calling-on aspects for platforms 1,2 & 3 (the arrow points to both the main and subsidiary signal). This probably wasn't provided on the original signal as there does not seem to three additional spare levers (next to or near the original signal levers) to operate them. The new...

A planning application (PL/2024/0000288/FULM) has been submitted for the Coventry VLR (Very Light Rail) demonstration line. The link gives access to all the documents submitted with the application, including scheme drawings and the "planning statement". From the planning statement. The...

The Delta junction at Wednesbury for the Dudley/Merry Hill extension is going in over Easter. Delta junction structure in Wednesbury entering final construction phase (Midland Metro)

Stagecoach operate the 51 service from Coventry Pool Meadow bus station to University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire taking 80 minutes on a "scenic" tour of west and north Coventry. The direct National Express Coventry No. 17 between the same points takes 27 minutes. Two very different routes...

According to a local paper when we were in Cadiz last year, people have been booking 16 trips to get one free return. This has caused some MD services to Sevilla to "sell out" when they actually run almost empty.

Gotha, Germany, operates with nothing newer than 1990 according to the fleet list. I had a 1964 Duewag unit on the Thuringiawaldbahn line to Bad Tararz two years ago.

All good museums, but some have limited opening

My Boss, who regularly travels first class, avoids Cross Country like the plague. He can generally get cheaper tickets travelling via London and a better first class service.