Recent content by glenbogle

Used it on a return journey to Bidston and back from Chester a couple of Sundays ago. 3 car 197 and had a coach to myself both ways between Chester and Wrexham. Enjoyed my first trip on one of the ex London Underground sets on the Borderlands line.

Plenty of good first class offerings. I’ve managed to buy - £16 Paddington to Hereford £11 Cardiff to Taunton £13 Exeter to Penzance £56 Penzance to Paddington Standard Class £6 Penzance to Barnstaple takes some beating. Any other good ones about?

Rail Sale News - The Promotional Period will start on 6 January 2026 and will end when all Great British Rail Sale Tickets have been sold or on 12 January 2026, whichever is sooner, for travel between 13 January 2026 and 25 March 2026.

Broken rail north of Penrith causing misery for the third day in a row between Scotland and Preston.

After over 2 hours of freezing my ass off at Glasgow Central I gave up, went back to Queen Street and travelled 90 miles back home. At Central I had a Avanti first class advance ticket, the first class lounge was closed so couldn’t even find a place to keep warm. Lost out on a hotel booking...

Blaenau Ffestiniog to Penrhyndeudraeth is 9 miles and can take over 9 hours by train with 3 to 4 changes.

Wick, Thurso, Stranraer and Kyle of Lochalsh will take some beating.

It’s away from Crianlarich at 1317 - 329 late. 1757594943 Sounds like it’s been wrongly routed by the signaller and the driver has accepted it!

Done well to only be 6 hours late going via Castlecary!

Caledonian Sleeper have a £200 Club Ticket on sale from tomorrow. Hundreds of Club en-suite rooms from £200* on our Highland routes this autumn and winter To celebrate 200 years of the modern railway we're selling hundreds of Club en-suite rooms on our Highland routes for £200 (solo) or...

All Southbounds didn’t leave the Central Belt due to the OHL problems on the WCML.

Apologies, I’m only ever on the Highland sleeper!

Sleeper does not stop at Watford Junction.

This happened to me last month, we were all woken up at 0430 with the train still in Edinburgh due to an engine fault and advised to catch the 0540 to Kgx. That train was involved in a fatality near Newcastle and the train arrived in London at noon. Fortunately I headed back home on the first...

I trust you had a limit what you could spend on a hotel and couldn’t go to the Renaissance at St.Pancras for example even though that was probably closest to Kings X