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My recollection of trips on the Cirencester and Tetbury branches are that these used setright tickets

And when that was offered as an explanation during an interview the interviewer said "so your saying that it was the wrong sort of snow" which has passed into folklore

CDL worked as did the toilets

If it helps them keep time that's a good thing

When I was a student at Manchester University in the 1960's the Railway Society regularly arranged brakevan trips on normal freight services. An extra brake van, normally unfitted, was placed at the rear of the train. BR worked out the mileage travelled and charged the appropriate first class...

There were numerous places where the GWR/WR banked trains

agreed

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This prompted a critical article in The Daily Telegraph which seems to suggest there is no problem and this is a waste of resources!

I've heard the same story about Llangyfelach tunnel on the Swansea District line

My understanding is that the Great Western/BR western region requirement was that if a smaller engine was attached as a pilot it had to be coupled inside the larger engine. This was folowing a derailment at Loughor in 1904 when the smaller pilot engine derailed and was thought to have been...

I remember being shown round one at Longsight circa 1966 on a Manchester University Railway Society visit. From memory we were told that the guards had refused to use them and they were being disposed of. I seem to remember that they had cooking and washing facilities and we suggested that they...

Not ex BR. NB 28038. When I photographed it in 1977 it was still in Cadbury's livery. itlater got repainted blue and was still there in 1993

Now shown as 158837

People still take no notice of the zonemarkings on the platform. In Cardif when trains are shown as stopping in zones 1-5 on platform 3 passengers still wait in the middle of the platform(zones 6-8) and rush forward when the train stops beyond them.

There is certainly a Neath-Manchester first class fare which I often use so there must be one from Swansea

There is a wide range of first class fares available, including advance, for the Marches Line from booking offices and online

the point I was making is that there is space where platform 5 was but nowhere else

Cardiff Central could do with several more but other than re-excavating platform 5 which was filled in 50 years ago there is no room