Recent content by Capybara

All I can add is that, in my experience, trains in Germany can get very busy towards the back end of Sunday as people return from their weekend away, particularly if you are travelling to a university town/city. so you may want to consider whether you need to make reservations. I'd echo the...

I've used this ticket on a couple of occasions in the past and, as I live in London and have a Freedom Pass, I've used the non-London version as highlighted by diamond geezer here. Now this version does not appear on the c2c website so I assume it has been withdrawn but can't find anywhere that...

So, I can change my reservation after the train I should have been on has left? Is that right? If I'd arrived on a late-running earlier train then I'd already be on the station, no? The only large French station I have any experience of is Strasbourg and I don't think there are gates there. Are...

I have a query that isn't purely an Interrail one but it relates to a possible Interrail journey I might make so here is as good a place to put it as any. I'm an experienced Interrail traveller but one country I've hardly touched, mainly because of the reservation issue, is France. However...

Indeed. That it was Rocket was crucial to the question. And finding a picture of Rocket is not exactly difficult. If you put Stephenson's Rocket into Google images, you get pages of images of Stephenson's Rocket, not pictures of Locomotion No 1.

The Headingley lights can be seen from all sorts of unexpected positions on the railway but not from the point closest to the ground. Pannal CC is visible from the line near, errm, Pannal station.

I popped along today having only found out about it because of this thread. I thoroughly enjoyed it. The train was full in both directions. They seem to have a good little operation going there.

Yes, this. As an example, on my most recent ticket I travelled from Great Britain to mainland Europe and back on three occasions. I used the return domestic journey on the second trip and the outward on the third. I also used one day of travel to go from Belfast to Dublin.

This is timely and really helpful. I came onto ask almost exactly the same question and have never seen it definitively answered before. I have more days on my pass than I'm likely to use (that's what happens when you buy one months in advance when they are on offer) and happen to be in...

That was quick! Cheers!

Passing through Maidenhead on another train on Friday at just after 13:00 I saw what from Realtime Trains looked to be 6A50, Whatley Quarry to Hanwell. It had two 59s on the front and there was a Freightliner locomotive in the middle of the train. Any idea what these were and what was going on?

Thanks. I rarely use it myself but it's helpful to know it's a known issue and not a problem with my 'phone.

Given this thread is about how the passes work, it's as good a place as any to ask if anyone is having the same problem I am currently having. Basically, the app can't find local stations. I've checked that everything is switched on in my 'phone in respect of apps knowing my location and I've...

Thanks.

Thanks. It wasn't clear from the link if there were other restrictions, such as Belgian nationals only, or you need something extra (like a senior railcard in the UK, for example).