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Re the situation with Crewe, the issue with only the doors on the front three cars opening only arises if the train is routed into plt 6 in the up direction. As Bungle965 says, this is due to the positioning of the balise, which is in the wrong position for trains taking the normal route from...

That looks really cool

Does anyone know whether Thameslink will be able to call at Farringdon on strike days?

Can someone please explain why I can't find a fare with PRV discount from St Pancras to Heathrow Terminal 5/Heathrow Rail? I can find fares to from Heathrow from one station either side i.e. Kentish Town and Farringdon but not from St Pancras itself. This doesn't make sense

Precisely. One example is at Sandwell & Dudley where the line speed IIRC is 75 mph

Just checked traintimes.org.uk and it does indeed look like the normal timetable has been reinstated for this Sunday (Feb 16)

Thanks both. Will try to catch 'em while I can

Hoping this question isn't off topic as so far this thread has focused on Europe, but does anyone know if the XPT sets are still in regular use in Australia?

Also New Street IIRC

From what I remember the ticket barriers comprised of one man* in a booth with a narrow doorway between the booth and a floor to ceiling high fence. The doorway to platform 4 was permanently open when the station was open. I don't know how late in the evening the barrier was manned* until as I...

Yes. See my post #20 on page 1 of this thread

AIUI the footbridge at the south end of the station was removed around the time that platforms 1-3 were taken out of scheduled passenger use during the Beeching era. During this period the ticket office was moved from the station entrance to the top of the staircase to platforms 4-7. There...

Not sure if it's anything to do with the storm, but 1H91 lost 45 minutes between Mickle Trafford and Frodsham. Ended up scrapping my plans for the evening as a result

I suspect there may be some form of system outage at the moment. I've tried traintimes.org.uk and nationalrail.co.uk this afternoon and both returned error messages rather than train times

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