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    Ryde Hoverport to mainland advances

    Thanks for all the advice! This is what prompted me asking - all the journey planner routes have the 1 minute connection to the bus and then ~10 minutes to the train at Portsmouth & Southsea, which makes me a little nervous about missing it in the event of a hovercraft delay (even if it is a...
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    Ryde Hoverport to mainland advances

    Hello folks, I'm planning a trip to the IoW in the coming weeks and some questions came up around combined hovercraft and rail tickets. Say, for instance, I book an advance from Ryde Hoverport to Waterloo, which has a specific train and (I assume also?) hovercraft flight on it. Do I need to...
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    Barcoded Ticketing Standards - Freedom of Information

    Great work! It looks like they didn't get around to releasing the public keys though - or have you chosen to not publish them? Will you be pushing back on this? (The internal review reply declining to "engage in a speculative technical debate regarding RSA cryptography" did make me laugh!)
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    ECML disruption - broken down train near York (21/02)

    Not a great day at York, also saw 1S12 (12:19 to Edinburgh) cancelled (RTT reporting "problem with the on-board safety systems (M0)") and people seemingly moved onto 1S14 an hour later.
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    CrossCountry XC Class 170 refurbishment

    Got to experience the refurb for the first time on 170102 today. Initial impressions: the power sockets are a long-overdue addition, the interior is decent, seats are alright, but the vibrations are genuinely excessive. It might have just been my unit (I was sat in the front coach), but typing...
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    Real Time Trains 2025 Christmas Special

    Stansted Mountfitchet appears to have lost its name!
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    Major Incident at Huntingdon (01/11/2025)

    1F38 just returned back to King's Cross, and it looks like 1D31 is on its way back too.
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    Signal berth codes?

    LEKY spotted at Waverley - must be an electrical pickle!
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    Penalty Fare - Phone Was Dead but i had a valid ticket during a random check at the train station stop

    Side-note: your redaction of personal details in the PDFs is incomplete - you've covered over the text, but it can still be selected and read. I'd advise using the redaction feature of a PDF editor (Tools > Redact in the Preview app on a Mac) then removing and re-posting.
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    Non-Urgent TOPS Requests

    What were the units on 1T56 1912 London Kings Cross to Kings Lynn today? Thanks folks!
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    Unusual LNER movement at Peterborough

    Earlier today while waiting for a train at Peterborough, I saw a LNER Azuma (800207 according to RTT) pull in ECS to Platform 6, change ends, and depart again. I checked RTT and saw that it had come in from Ferme Park Recp. [XFD] via Cambridge and Ely, and was then due to go to Bounds Green TMD...
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    Signalling problems Guildford/ Reading / Waterloo 18/07 lines

    NRE says "Trains are unable to use platforms 1 to 14 [at Waterloo]."
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    Cambridge -> London -> Alexandra Palace -> Cambridge

    Hi folks, Looking for some advice for a journey I’m intending to make tomorrow - going from Cambridge (North) to central London in the early afternoon, then to Alexandra Palace (arriving around 7pm), and then back to Cambridge in the late evening. Would it be valid for me to use a Super...
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    ECML Major Disruption (09-Oct-24)

    That fire looks nasty. Are the cables just that flammable, or did a train spill diesel over them or something?

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