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Fun fact: Duncraig was shut in 1964 as part of Beeching, but the train crews ignored this and trains called there anyway. In 1976 it reopened.
As one of the drivers said:
"We thought that if the English wanted to close a railway station they should pick on Euston or King's Cross"
This is Duncraig station, a beautiful wee station just by Loch Carron, located on the rural Kyle of Lochalsh route.
Rumour has it, the station was named after a guy called Craig Dun... ^Ste
Unfortunately, Eleanor wanted to break her journey, and now she can't, because LNER have decided to get rid of off-peak and super-off-peak fares. So "freedom all the way" is pushing it a bit, isn't it?
Have you seen our new TV advert yet?
Featuring Eleanor dancing to "Weapon of Choice" by
@FatboySlim
and
@Bootsy_Collins
, with moves to rival Christopher Walken!
To learn more, visit
#FreedomAllTheWay
Wasted an entire day travelling because of some tiny crack on the track that Network Rail are looking at overnight.
I mean honestly, this country used to rule the world, now we fall apart over a sodding chip on a rail track.
We are overwhelmingly proud of Will and moreover incredibly proud that the Rail Society was somewhere they felt safe and supported.
We will always fight as members and allies of the queer community.
Today I am celebrating Edinburgh Pride, but there're something I think you should know
I am Asexual, it's something I've known for 2 years and it's so good to finally be myself able to show my true colours
🖤🩶🤍💜
“it's your responsibility to have a charged phone”. I’m sorry but passengers aren’t children. Things happen. Especially if, as so often, the train charging ports do NOT work.
I don't know if this is unpopular, but:
It's really sad that there seems to be such a lack of affection for modern DMU/EMUs. For example, the National Railway Museum turning down the opportunity to have a Class 442.
We'll regret not preserving these units, if we fail to do so.
This is patronising, a waste of time and money, it discourages new passengers, it turns staff into police officers, and above all, it is totally ineffective and unnecessary.
It’s hard to think of a worse rail policy paired with a worse advertising campaign.
After 44 years of service, today marks the final day our legacy fleet will be in operation 🧡
There will be a legacy train on each circle this afternoon between 1 - 4pm for their final run of passenger service.
#GlasgowSubway
#farewellToAnIcon
Scotland's Railway has reached Leven!
@LevenmouthRail
is go!
We're on the first train and we've just had a lovely chat with Bill Reeve of
@transcotland
, who very cogently set out the wider social importance of the railway: this is a community project, not a 'train' project
Imagine if we could take all the resources plugged into promoting and spreading transphobia, and redirect them into investment in our railways instead. I want to cry and also to break things.
‘It is part of the terms and conditions, and therefore it is right and proper’ is a peculiarly British response to something being inconvenient and unnecessary.
The interior of a former
@GWRHelp
HST exported to Nigeria. The HSTs will be used on the new Red Line, near Lagos, and the railway was inaugurated on February 29, but the HSTs are not, yet, in traffic. More in
@railexpress
out this week. 📷Ian Cable/Romic.
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@LNER
@JenOnTheMoveUK
But that's worse for customers — you're replacing a much more flexible fare, one that allows you to break your journey and one that ISN'T subject to availability — with one that is! And if passengers want that, they now have to pay more than double the price, for an Anytime!
I love the idea of nationalising the railways but somehow not including the actual trains. It's like if I made you a meal and only gave you the plate and cutlery.
This is a horrible, horrible thing, so needless & destructive. Wishing all the best to the tireless volunteers at Bo'ness.
We'd like to help. We're collecting donations on our Discord, so if you're a member, please check the station-announcements channel. Thank you.
It's currently quicker to drive from Inverness to Edinburgh, Glasgow or Dundee than it is to go via public transport.
It's quicker to drive from Glasgow to Dundee or Aberdeen than it is to go by public transport too.
Scotland's InterCity railways really need investment!
It's pretty dangerous if you're a rail fan to dig too deeply into rail projects that never took place. If even half of them were ever finished... maybe British rail infrastructure would be in a far better shape.
Because they scuppered our Reston plans we are declaring war on TRANSPENNINE EXPRESS.
By our hand they will lose their franchise agreement within one week.
Something a lot of men don't like to admit:
All of your hobbies and ambitions are to attract women.
Nature doesn't care how much personal fulfillment you get from them. Those things are cool, but they're a coincidental positive externality to the prime objective:
To keep the
Gleneagles station is beautifully maintained — one of
@ScotRail
's loveliest stations!
It's also not a bad place to see majestic High Speed Trains at speed. Within a 40-minute period, we saw three... one even said hello!
This is absolutely TERRIBLE. No more off-peak and super off-peak fares, with affordable flexibility and refundability.
'Flex' tickets have to be booked in advance. This just creates two tiers of advances.
It's a stealth fare hike. Nothing less.
Today
@LNER
is launching a pioneering pilot - making ticket choices clearer & easier.
We’re introducing a whole new type of ticket - allowing you to get on a train up to 70 mins before or after your original booking.
We’re calling it Simpler Fares:
The parkway station is such a fascinating concept, because there is something there that is so fundamentally dated, something buried deep in the psyche of new-millennial renewal Britain.
Look at the narrative you can draw from this single image. (It's East Midlands Parkway.)
it is so GRINDINGLY obvious that the highland mainline desperately needs the investment that the A9 is receiving.
there is ZERO justification for the mainline between the Highlands and Lowlands to be mostly SINGLE track.
doubling it is cheaper than what they're doing to the A9!
Hope everyone is ready for the reason behind this: Primark paid £158,000 to have a tram stop outside their new megastore instead of a half a mile down the road at Waverly station.
Perhaps the SNP wouldn't be scrapping Scotland's desperately-needed climate target if they'd had any kind of faith in their own railways...
A total, criminal betrayal.
To people just discovering us on Twitter - hi, we're RailSoc, a student society at the University of Edinburgh for train-lovers and trip-goers alike! 🚂🚂
@DomTheTrainNerd
We try not to engage with Wolmar (terfery) but there's a lot of evidence that BR was indeed really turning round after the mid-80s — InterCity profitability, huge rise of NSE ridership, and Regional Railways saw effective savings and the introduction of very good rolling stock
If you're just tuning in, yes, a 47 really did drag an LNER InterCity 225 on a diversion via the GN/GE Joint Line this evening. What a way to round off 2023, right? 😁