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I have one (first class :))

Just seen on FGW's website, long delays due to a 'line-side fire' between Truro and St Austell. Does anyone know anything more?

Can anyone add to this list if I've missed any? I'm ignoring railtours and steam etc. FGW, NXEC and XC HSTs WSMR 67 FGW 57 night one SWT Lymington - Brockenhurst EMUs NXEA something?

Anyone know if they mind br passes rather than tickets? Sometimes XC and virgin will say no food if you haven't actually paid for the ticket...

Not that strange I suppose, but seeing an HST at Whimple station when Taunton - Tiverton parkway was closed was weird.

You can't lean out the windows on anything other than HSTs and the lymington pier brockenhurst EMUs! That's my only quarm about modern railways!

Well I was thinking of doing a trip up to somewhere beautiful like Kyle of Lochalsh, so therefore Inverness. I know there are a few NXEC services direct, but otherwise whichever is easier for that.

Hello, I'm planning to travel to Scotland at some point and not having travelled on either the west or east coast main lines, I was wondering which you think is the better? Forgetting price differences, is one more scenic? Maybe Virgin is a better TOC to travel with than NXEC? Is the...

Simple enough question, or perhaps there's a better one: is there a point? I joined the forum recently because I would class myself as a rail enthusiast - I enjoy rail travel, I think the history of the country's rail network is very interesting, and that rail transport is a vital part of...

Does anyone know why some of fgw's buffet cars haven't been refurbished, how many of them there are and when they will be?