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With the cut back in railway services to serve only the most necessary travel, I thought it would be good to record those bits of railway that have now lost all passenger services. If we can compile a reasonably comprehensive list I will put it in the RO. Unsurprisingly, many early casualties are ro...

Not Metrolink's fault at all, but it's not a great way to start a new service on a new route (Trafford Centre)!

I posted this on another forum but discussion wandered off into other things without answers. Maybe the good burghers of RCTS can help! Around the year 2000 saw the start of what was supposed to be a super-efficient rail-based Royal Mail distribution system known as Railnet. It served terminals at: ...

It is possible that this isn't a direct spoken quote but more a reflection of attitudes of the time. Most men higher up the social scale had an aversion to those at the bottom doing anything other than working.

https://www.scotrail.co.uk/about-scotrail/news/scotrail-first-train-operator-publish-real-time-train-data Didn't note the train number? Look it up on http://realtimetrains.co.uk/! Stock allocations are now shown for most ScotRail services (and GB Railfreight). (Note: no connection other than as a us...

You might want to add the date for future readers/searchers. Today (4 January) or earlier in the month?

Privatisation started well before train operation was hived-off in the mid-1990s. For example, BR's hovercraft services were divested in 1981 and Travellers Fare in 1988, the latter being sold to the management team eventually becoming today's SSP (that runs Upper Crust and other brands). One odd sa...

Michael Quick states (expanding out his abbreviations):
lost last eastbound service 18 June 1962 timetable; last working time table for line, 7 September 1964, shows unadvertised stops both ways – eastbound Fridays and Saturdays, westbound Fridays and Mondays. Closed 14 June 1965.

Hope this helps!

Guildford station still advertises Red Star parcels outside (2019-07-06):

LNER-liveried 800206 passed through Reading this afternoon (5 July) heading for Eastleigh.