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After spending most of 2016 going to and from hospitals for both my wife and I, we've decided now that the vast majority of treatment/physio/operations are done that we want to get out and about a lot more - but further afield than just Scarborough where we live. We have a mix of fatigue and...

Assuming you know you are going to be delayed, either due to a late arrival or departure - let's assume it's down as 24 minutes when you set off from your destination, and delay repay kicks in at 30 minutes - would you rather arrive that 24 minutes late, or for the sake of 6/7 minutes, and a...

Problem under investigation at present, but a friend of my wife is on the train (1722 1E91 LIV-SCA) says the train has hit something. Roughly 5 minutes through York. Bustitution for other services between York and Scarborough.

Absolutely nothing to do with trains, actually a study one of my friends needs help with. Basically, imagine two sets of cards - each numbered 1 to 9, so 18 cards in total laid in a 3x6 grid - assumed at complete random It's a 'match the pairs' game. So you pick a card at random, then pick...

My wife and I may have to make a daily (M-F) trip from Scarborough to James Cook in the near future (early December) for 3 months (65 days). I think all travel should be off-peak. There is an alternative of travelling to either Preston, Bolton or Chester and staying with family in...

Today is apparently World Bridge Day. So, which - in your opinion is the best railway bridge - UK or the world - by design or appearance or engineering, or simply your favourite?

Which, in your opinion, are the worst maintained stations on the main network? Either from an infrastructure point of view, or just general maintenance - obviously stations vary significantly, so let's split them between: Urban, Rural, Staffed and Unstaffed Came across the idea from a...

I saw that this offer was out once again - having not bothered the last few times, I'm seriously thinking about giving it a go. Starting station is Scarborough assuming I stick exclusively to Northern and don't invest in any other tickets with TPE, etc. Guessing it is a 'travel after 9:30'...

Excluding your most local station, or commuting starting/finishing location, which is your most visited station - and is there a particularly reason why? For example - someone living just outside York (near Ullskelf) travels to Doncaster for work each day - but goes to Leeds at least three...

Same as the Wales thread. Two Scotland stations - what is the highest number of changes required whilst still minimising changes? Example: Thurso - Falkirk High Thurso - Inverness Inverness - Haymarket Haymarket - Falkirk High Again, any train/tram travel can work, let your...

One of those sleepless night posts, something I started on Twitter earlier but thought I'd bring to the forum too. Basically you have free reign to create your favourite food item from the following list - I've been inspired for this by some places I've visited, or places my friends have been...

Pretty sure there was a thread in the UK as a whole re: this - but didn't find one re: Wales. Basically, I am interested in the highest number of stops between two stations involving a journey wholly within Wales and its associated islands (i.e. including Anglesey, etc.) - but you need to keep...

I must admit, if I pay for a product or service, I expect a standard which relates to what I've paid for, especially if I'm paying extra for it. Typical example being next day delivery premium charges, or delivery/collection/installation charges on bully items that I've ordered. If this falls...

I've seen departure boards in cafes, waiting rooms and pubs on train stations before, which isn't particularly unusual, and often is useful to keep an eye on while you have a brew/pint waiting for your train. I've seen them in other places dotted around the station too (car parks attached to the...

A friend of mine posted this on Facebook, and it drew the usual comments about how UK fares are too expensive, and trains too crowded and never on time. I did a bit of research, finding that the £96 fare looks to probably be an outdated walk up peak single, with advance singles available from...

Was sat down having a drink with a mate last night, and we created an idea to do an alphabet challenge on the trains. Basically, the idea was to travel to a station from A-Z, in a day - to see if it's possible. Quickly, we realised it wouldn't be and certain letters weren't possible - so we...

I wonder if anyone knows which station was used in the ITV drama "Brief Encounters" which was on ITV1 for the past few weeks? May well have been a heritage line but not 100% sure.

Obviously, there are stations like London Victoria, Manchester Piccadilly, Birmingham New Street which are huge stations, and the arteries of the network. Then there's your stations which serve the smaller cities, larger towns, etc - not to mention the seaside stops. You've got...

Got a friend who is in to his train bashing - but he looks for units rather than actual stations. We were chatting the other night and he was asking me about a challenge he was thinking about. He wants to travel on the most trains on the National Rail Network as possible in 24 hours. I sent...

I'm guessing this will be a fairly rare occurance for Scarborough unless someone knows differently and tells me otherwise. At 14:45 yesterday, there was a train on each platform. 1: 60163 Tornado (The Scarborough Flyer) 2: EMT 222010 (service from/to St Pancras on summer Saturday's) 3...