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As many in here know, back in the late 1960s, post Beeching, it was realised that some loss-making rail lines should be saved on "social" grounds. The good citizens of places like Beccles and Builth (Rd), Barnstaple and Brora needed and deserved a rail service, despite the fact that these...

Cooking my mushrooms for lunch just now, I was pondering a trip I made to Ulster long ago, and I suddenly realised it was almost exactly 54 years to the day when this occured. A small gang of us met up in Belfast to chase a Railway Preservation Society of Ireland special for a day, possibly two...

SPLIT from this thread (as this has little directly to do with January Accidents) https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/accidents-in-january.260138/#post-6568041 Merle Haggard In fact, I wonder if A3s were even passed to work down the Midland in 1964. I think rebuilt Scots were...

I see that the new, limited-stop Newcastle - Middlesbro' 1TP2H services has been launched, presumably with this months' new timetable. Questions: 1) Are these trains popular? Have they made news in the north-east, or have they 'just happened'? 2) To my amazement, looking at RTT they are not...

I know this 1969 BBC programme has been mentioned in this forum a number of times, but I think it deserves a thread of its own. It really is a gem of a production, I think it could be used in schools and universities to show kids of today what things were like in the 60s ('cos although it...

Looking at last night's (11/11) 2V12, 18.08 Shrewsbury to Llanwrtyd and return working, 2M12 Llanwrtyd - Shrewsbury (no explanation why the balance working from Swansea didn't run) reveals a remarkable performance. The train (no details of rolling stock) left Shrewsbury 43 late, and caught up 9...

Am near Swansea, and planning a sort of half day trip up the Central Wales Line tomorrow. Request opinions on which place to get off and explore a bit and eat lunch. Plan to leave on the 09.09 ex Swansea, return on 11.22 ex-Shrewsbury from which ever place we go to. Obvously would have more...

Before the closure of the Peak Forest route in 1968 (at which point the Nottingham and St Pancras - Manchester trains began to use it), was the Dore South curve normallly used by passenger trains? And today, is it classified as a passenger route? If not, what does that entail when late-running...

The thread on the supposed success of Worcestershire Parkway had me wanting to respond: Well, if the operating authority had given Worcester (Shrub Hill) a decent Brum - Worcester - Bristol (or Cardiff) service in the first place, we wouldn't have needed the Parkway. As I remember it, there...

Put another way: what are the track arrangements on the HoW at Morlais Jcn (southern end) and Craven Arms (nothern end)? Example: I see today the 2M08 11.45 ex-Swansea to Shrewsbury was held at Llangennech for 14 minutes before going onto the HoW at Morlais Jcn. I haven't checked, but I've...

What's been going on? 2H92 starts ex Leeds 65 late - gets to Keighley 134 late - but the service seems in tatters. https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:P56114/2023-08-09/detailed

Taken from this thread: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/when-did-routine-cleaning-of-steam-locos-end.251937/ I thought this might be a good subject for discussion, although I have no idea if there is much - or any - literature on the subject. I believe Italian POWs worked on the new shed...

These days, I read from posters in here of highly frustrating incidents when someone's train run by TOC A is late or cancelled, but as the station is managed by TOC B, the would-be traveller is given zilch service because he doesn't hold a TOC B ticket. That is, assuming said traveller can even...

Your starter for 10 - How about Sheffield? I was going to put this in the current thread "Railway locations that are now only a shadow of themselves" - but realised after writing that Sheffield and what follows is not on topic for that thread ( and we had one on precisely the same subject...

I think it was last December's TT change brought in what, on paper, is probably the best HoW service levels for some years, at least on weekdays. Sure, nobody imagines Llandrindod or Ammanford are heading towards the top ten most-used stations even in Wales, but it seemed to show the intention...

TAKEN from this thread https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/future-of-the-settle-carlisle-and-forest-of-bowland-bentham-lines.235399/page-26#post-6176913 @zwk500 REPLIED This is regularly raised as a factor but is there any serious evidence that there is a significant number of people put off...

Taken from this thread on Overcrowding on East Midlands Railway (which for some reason I cannot find now!) EDIT - it's here https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/east-midlands-railway-overcrowding-issues.245838/ I seem to regularly read on these forums that the DfT people (or "clowns" * in the...

There are many in here who say the economic case for Bedford - [St Neots] - Cambridge will never stack up, and so will never get built. (Just for the record, I do hope it gets built. But I'd give that only a 20% chance.) Some (including myself) have suggested putting in a south-east chord at...

NB - For exclusive being-chased-by-cows thread, see https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/being-chased-by-cows.244037/ Since we are into being chased by cows today, I thought this was unfair and prejudicial on other creatures not to have their say and fair chance to gain fame and notoriety from...

Taken from this thread https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/trivia-longest-trip-that-any-loco-or-unit-has-every-done.243505/page-6 (I have missed my posts, which were somewhat off beam as I didn't know the Tweedmouth - Kelso - St Boswells line was used) I've been looking up some more...