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How much luggage do you take if you were going to be away from home for 2 nights trip by public transport?

Cambridge Station has an advertising screen in the middle of platform 4. It has all the traffic to get from four platforms to the exit. Who thought this was a good idea?

larstransportmaps.com has some unofficial schematic rail maps for various European countries. This is a new one of the weekday train services in Belgium

In recent years, the first train on a Sunday morning from Ely to Cambridge has been about 9am, which gets to Kings Cross after 10am, Stansted at 11 and after 12 for Heathrow and Gatwick. I just checked on RealTimeTrains which has times for last weekend and through to October. These are the...

The Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Company is a crowd funding campaign to save a class 317 to convert into a class 210 DEMU. Rail Magazine says they are looking to raise £35k. https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/class210demu says its £20k.

A few miles from Toledo in Spain someone stole a steel railway bridge. https://twitter.com/i/status/1631000584445722636 has a video of a locomotive crossing the track in any case. Its near Algodor 39°54'01"N 3°53'54"W

https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2022q4/003438.html says: # Call for Participation: Railways and Open Transport Devroom FOSDEM (https://fosdem.org) is Europe's largest gathering of Free and Open Source Software developers and enthusiasts, with thousands of people attending each year...

A few days ago, there was an in cab journey from Lancaster to Barrow in Furness on That's TV on Freeview. It looks like it was from this DVD https://www.videoscene.co.uk/a-journey-on-the-furness-railway-en The schedule for That's TV is available at https://tv24.co.uk/channel/thats-tv but I...

I just got back from watching Bullet Train. I've not been in the cab of a bullet train, but I'm not sure that this movie gave an accurate portrayal of how to drive one.

Is there a WWW site which will let me enter details of a UK railway journey and send me an email when tickets become available for a given price? It could give me a link to buy the tickets and get some click through revenue. It could also send me suggestions for trips from my home station with...

I'm travelling by Eurostar on Saturday, and returning the following Saturday. I just went to Ely ticket office and asked for a ticket with CIV protection, using a Network railcard. They said that I needed a £43.15 Euro Standard Return, and not a £31.15 Euro High Saver Return, to get the CIV...

I've got a Dutch Flyer Rail Sail ticket from Hook of Holland to any Greater Anglia station. I want to end up in Ely. I'm arriving early on a Saturday morning, and I'd like to know which trains I can take, and can I break my journey. In this 2019 thread, @Bletchleyite wrote At BR Fares the...

On BBC Radio 4, at 7.15pm this evening, there is a program Screenshot: Trains on screen

The Guardian says: I first saw it from this tweet, which referred to the "PM" but not the country https://twitter.com/nashthomas/status/1503206248820269057 A follow up to that noted:

Shackleton's Endurance has been found 3000m deep on the sea bed under the Weddell sea in the Antarctic Dan Snow sent a tweet about it here: https://mobile.twitter.com/thehistoryguy/status/1501452764131598342 where he wrote: Dan Snow has been on the ship that has been searching for the...

Anything You Can Do is a radio documentary from 1988 on the Mallard steam engine record. It was repeated last Tuesday and Wednesday and is available for another 24 days at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b8b7qb

The Train at Platform 4 is comedy on an "Arriviata" train from Kings Cross to York https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00132xq Its written by Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis. The Train Manager is Rosie Cavaliero

This is a video of a tram traffic jam from Friday November 27th https://www.tiktok.com/@jupanurobotu/video/7034773910633663749?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id6903324216125621765 This is a Google translation from a news report...

Does anyone have any views on which electric cars have been engineered for a long life? At the moment I have a diesel Mondeo. I paid £8500 for it from a Ford dealer, when it was 2 years 9 months old when it had done 56k miles. I've done 17k miles a year for 7 years, so its now at 175k miles...

At www.gwr.com if I search for a train from Ely to Tenby leaving at 9am on Saturday 25th September, coming back at 9am on Saturday 2nd October, it reports some trains but says "No tickets available" If I try through www.chilternrailways.co.uk then it gives a super off peak return, where the...