railway

[bunbag]

dont know if this has been said can you still put yer bike on / in a train i can remember that the trains used to have a guard,s van is it still possible :confused:

[Kylie]

i presume u mean motorbike not pushbike? no idea. Pushbikes aren't a problem but they sometimes make you book.

Only long distance trains have guards vans now - and even then not sure how many do.

[Dogz]

No mate! The days ov the guard van have gone and large goods by passenger train. The only way to move yer bike by train now is on the freight side and that means a container,etc. The way of the guards van went out with BR and privatisation. (Though as a train driver, the pay is better under privatisation)

Hope that helped ya?

[bunbag]

thanks m8 :D

[wurzel]

Wouldn't let me get a fs1-e from Plymouth to Reading 5 years back even if I took the tank off and said it was spare parts. Anyway given rail prices hiring a van is cheaper

[Urban Terrorist]

i just got visions of people trying to get their bikes on the train at hatfield, no lift so you'd have to take it across a footbridge :D :D :D

[John Hopkins]

Thats's sad, another bit of my old life gone, used to be able to wheel my old 98cc Frances Barnett into the guards van and sit there chatting and eating my sarnies all the way to London..didn't even charge anything for the bike either..just Yeah that'll be alright mate just wheel it in!..Mind you it was only 3d a stop in those days...and a loaf of Hovis was fourpenceha'penny and a penneth of chips and a tuppence bit of fish...arrh them were the days... :D John