Recent content by Alfonso

Probably the simplest thing, if you want to change from a conventional paper or electronic ticket to contact less or oyster and vice versa is to follow the signs for an exit, go through a barrier to finish using one kind of "ticket", then go back through a barrier using the other kind of...

Im going from Bydgoszcz to Gdansk on the IC231, 18h59-20h22. The train finishes not much later in Gdinya. Does anyone have any experience of how soon the restaurant car is likely to start closing up? Am I likely to have time for some dinner before they stop serving? Mod note - moved from Trip...

The SNCF "Cabine 8" corail coaches had 12 compartments of 8 semi reclined bunks with the foot space about half the width of the body/head space. So in theory 96 sleeping people in a carriage. The only times I travelled on them (Paris-Bale) they were mostly empty. I dont think anyone really...

Are you familiar with the 1970s film "death line" (known in our household as "mind the doors")? Plot is a young couple get shut in Holborn station after missing the last train. Its not the best film in the universe by a long shot but you could just about justify watching it as research?

No need for reservations, just go. On the Bernina bahn my completely subjective view is that you're marginally better off in the normal carriages (if there are any off season) than in the EMUs. On the St Moritz (or Samedan if you're cutting the corner from Pontresina) to Chur or wherever Albula...

Hi, Im off to Switzerland soon. Our hostel is participating in the Engadine (St Moritz / Pontresina area) Mountain Railways Included offer. I understand i get sent a pdf shortly before departure so you can use it to get to and from the hotel as well as during the stay. When should i start...

There are a couple of narrow gauge ones in Switzerland which meet funicular or cable cars but are isolated from the main network. One from les montuires to the base of the emmosson dam and another from grutschalp to murren

If yiu do use it again - and it's my preferred method - crucial bits involve being near the middle of the train for the cross platform interchange at odlxford circus and being at the back of the victoria line train to take the escalators up from the platforms rather than the ones at the other...

It's worth checking which mountain railways etc are included in the pass. I think the cable cars from fiesch etc up to the aletsch alps above are included. The higher mountain lifts from the alps up to the peaks are I believe 50%off. Switzerland can be very expensive, but there's free very nice...

Heathrow Junction station only lasted for a few months in 1998, but was about 2 miles from Heathrow terminal 2 and 3 station 1782547065 It's a bit of a stretch, but waterloo international replaced Dover western docks? Less of a stretch, st pancras international replaced waterloo international?

Personally im not a big fan of seatfrog but I can see the business case for it...Many industries have ways of quietly selling stuff cheaper without damaging their "mainline" offer. Its supposed to be a bit fiddly, so that only your most price sensitive customers bother with it, while your...

I don't think I'm the only person who stopped bothering with first on this route when it went to 2+2 seating.

If there's significant cruise traffic at Southampton, 1st (and standard) can be very busy.

There's a cable ferry across the non tidal part of the exe in exeter. Link to Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butts_Ferry

Unless it's pouring with rain it's most likely that walking or taking a bus to St Pancras will be easier than going all the way down to the victoria line and all the way back up again.