Railway travel for the Disabled
(1 messages)
Date: 1 Jun 2005 02:41:37 -0700
I am partially disabled and have noticed that recently Station Staff do
not offer to help with suitcase/bags etc even if they see you
struggling. One extremely bad place for this is Luton station, the
staff there just disappear ...
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Railway travel for the Disabled
(12 messages)
Date: 1 Jun 2005 02:40:56 -0700
I am partially disabled and have noticed that recently Station Staff do
not offer to help with suitcase/bags etc even if they see you
struggling. One extremely bad place for this is Luton station, the
staff there just disappear ...
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Coupling and uncoupling Adelantes
(13 messages)
Date: 31 May 2005 22:47:42 -0700
I know that Adelantes can be run as 2 x 5 coach trains and have seen
them advertised thus for whole journeys such as Pad - Bristol. But can
anyone please tell me whether they can be regularly coupled or
uncoupled in mid-journey ...
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Vale of Rheidol two-train service - loop usage
(1 messages)
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 23:11:01 +0000 (UTC)
I took a ride on the Vale of Rheidol Railway yesterday for the first time in
many years. A two-train service was operating, with all crossing moves
taking place at Aberffrwd because services are timetabled to leave Devil's
Bridge ...
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Dr Who: rail location
(28 messages)
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 23:05:39 +0100
I don't suppose anyone knows where it was? The 'Wartime London' episodes
that is - something unworldly* had landed on a railway line, and
somehow the untidy glimpses of track and platform ends didn't look like
a set.
Mark
*It ...
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37s on ATW
(9 messages)
Date: 31 May 2005 13:50:37 -0700
I have read in quite a few rail journals & chatting to a few people
about the Class 37s on the Rhymney Line. Someone said that they are
ending in June, someone said Summer, & someone else told me december!
Now, does anyone ...
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Luckiest contributor
(3 messages)
Date: 31 May 2005 12:55:28 -0700
1. Joe Patrick
He has a First Class Privilege Pass, which allows free travel anywhere
around the country - lucky so and so! He also drives trains for One,
so is quite a keen rail enthusiast.
2. Tomas
He has a First Class ...
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CTRL Visitor Centre
(1 messages)
Date: 31 May 2005 12:34:05 -0700
I am thinking of going to the CTRL Visitor Centre sometime this week?
Is it any good?
...
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How many ticket checks in one trip
(1 messages)
Date: 31 May 2005 12:31:23 -0700
Today my travels took me from BNS to Euston (via Northampton) between
BNS and Northampton the friendly fat American conductor came round and
checked tickets after every stop now this was ALL tickets. Also between
BNS and B'Int ...
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Nuneaton to Lichfield TV - in one minute?
(4 messages)
Date: 31 May 2005 11:46:32 -0700
The 18:05 Euston to Manchester tonight is apparently timetabled to
depart Nuneaton at 19:09 and depart Lichfield Trent Valley at 19:10!
Clearly an error on the part of Virgin, or have they discovered
revolutionary new technology ...
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Adelentes and beeching help wanted
(15 messages)
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 18:41:17 +0000 (UTC)
Hi
New to here but im a small rail fanatic. I have travelled extensively on the
GW and have found it has been reliable and quick. The Adelente experience
was fantastic more to the fact that it has superb acceleration than ...
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Plusbus, without the fuss, what nonsense!
(34 messages)
Date: 31 May 2005 11:36:11 -0700
I purchased a 'Plusbus' add-on ticket to my rail ticket earlier
(www.plusbus.org.uk). For a small supplement, I could use the bus at
the end of my rail journey - seemed good value to me.
However, at Preston, no less than ...
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Fatalities on ECML and MML
(62 messages)
Date: 31 May 2005 11:29:48 -0700
Not a good day for train running on the MML and ECML.
Fatality between Kings Cross Thameslink and St Albans
Time reported 10:50
TOC(s) affected Midland Mainline, Thameslink
Route affected Leeds-Sheffield-Leicester-Bedford-St ...
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UK Senior Railcard in Denmark
(3 messages)
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 18:28:31 +0000 (UTC)
Quote from the 2005 edition of Thomas Cook Travellers Denmark:
"Recipients of state pensions in their own countries are entitled to
reductions on Danish railways on presentation of their passport and a Senior
Citizen travel ...
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Isle of Wight
(7 messages)
Date: 31 May 2005 05:19:14 -0700
A few years ago, I bought a ticket from my local station to Yarmouth
(IOW) which included travel from there to London, across London &
London - Lymington Pier, where I got a boat service to Yarmouth on the
Isle of Wight. The ...
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BBC images again
(29 messages)
Date: 31 May 2005 05:02:25 -0700
The front pages of the BBC site have a photo of a Pendalino as the icon
to the story that Voyagers were taken off yesterday...
Good old Aunty Beeb !
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Pathfinder - new fare arrangements
(1 messages)
Date: 31 May 2005 04:51:36 -0700
Having checked this out with Pathfinder prior to yesterdays tour,
please note that they do not now have a "part-fare" policy as it has in
the past. Apparently a full fare is now charged for all journeys (even
Birmingham International ...
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Gold Card purchased from Tube station
(1 messages)
Date: 31 May 2005 04:09:00 -0700
A quick query - when buying a Gold Card Travelcard (i.e. an annual
Travelcard), are Underground stations and TfL Travel Information
Centres able to issue the Partner's Network Card (i.e. the 脗拢1 offer
for Gold Card holders to ...
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Class 143 on Penzance - Bristol Temple Meads (Is this legal?!)
(39 messages)
Date: 31 May 2005 04:05:49 -0700
Sympathy goes out to those who caught the 1200 Penzance - Bristol
Temple Meads recently. Imagine the horror of those passengers going all
the way to Bristol finding out their journey for the day would be
formed of a two-car ...
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Will there ever be an end to weekend WCML disruption?
(7 messages)
Date: 31 May 2005 04:01:31 -0700
Every weekend for the past two years i have been inconvenienced by
engineering works on the Milton Keynes - Watford section of the WCML.
It takes almost two and half hours for a journey less than 1 hour 30
minutes. Is there ...
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