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Ah, I hadn't thought about doing 1st class for only one of the legs. That's a good idea, thanks! As far as I can tell I can't choose a seat on crosscountrytrains.co.uk (which I assume is the site most likely to allow it). I can ask it to reserve me one, but it just picks one for me; I can't see...

Hi folks, I'm planning to take a trip from Oxford to Leicester shortly, and as I'll have luggage and be with a nervous post-pandemic traveller, I was trying to work out how full the trains are likely to be, and whether it might be worth shelling out for 1st class (or maybe even a taxi, looking...

Thanks all; sounds like it ought to still be valid, then! In fact, I've discovered that gwr.com is happy to give me that route. And thanks too for the railcard suggestion; I do actually already have one, but didn't mention it as it wasn't directly relevant to my question. Thanks again!

Hi folks, If, on http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/, I ask to go from Oxford (OXF) to Brighton (BTN) tomorrow at 11am, returning the day after at 11am, and then amend the search to 'travel via Wokingham (WKM)', then for the 53.40 off-peak fare it won't let me select a return journey via Clapham...

At our "All In A Day's Work" event, as well as passenger trains running on both of our demonstration lines, visiting loco Andrew Barclay 0-4-0ST no 1931 will be shunting around the engine shed, and our 6 ton steam crane will be in operation in front of the carriage shed. There will also be...

Three videos from three steam railways this spring. Hope you enjoy them! 4cSg9-vw8GU A compilation of clips from the Lakeside & Haverthwaite railway on Friday the 29th March 2013. Starts off with the day's service loco shunting a couple of other locos from the carpark tramway back into the...

Season tickets don't permit doubling back, but they do permit making multiple journeys (and thus could be used to go from A to B and back again, provided they are valid from A to B). This may seem like a pedantic difference, but perhaps it is the cause of some of the confusion.

One sign says "IF NO LIGHT - PROCEED WITH CAUTION" while the other says "Cross only when green light shows". That seems like a contradiction to me, but I guess that normally either red or green would be showing, and only if something is broken would neither light be illuminated?

I had a great day chasing the train around London, with an afternoon in the V&A while it was back in the depot. I was a little worried that the stations would be heaving in the evening, when there wouldn't be any light to see it outside, but it turned out that even Baker Street was absolutely...

If you have a smartphone, then I wonder how well its camera stacks up compared to an 80 quid video camera? A quick Amazon search for "phone tripod mount" suggests that for 10-20 quid you'd be able to get something to attach a phone to a tripod.

Why buy a £15.80 ticket to Brighton if you can buy a £15.45 ticket to Lewes?

Yes, I meant "network railcard" everywhere I said "railcard". Thanks everyone for the confirmations!

Hi all, If person X has: a Blackwater - Lewes CDS with Railcard discount £15.45 (and no railcard), and person Y has: a network railcard a Didcot Parkway - Gatwick CDS with Railcard discount £14.45 a Gatwick - Brighton SDS £8.00 (no Railcard discount, as on a weekday and < £13)...

Hi all, At Combe station there are what appear to be 2 vehicle detectors (http://www.agd-systemes.fr/products/agd200uk.html) looking up the line. Does anyone know what the purpose of these is, that isn't already satisfied by track circuits, please? Thanks Ian

At Paddington, the train will be sitting in the platform for some time (listed as "Preparing" in the screens, I think) before it is announced which platform it will be. When the platform is announced, you get a swarm of people approaching from the London end, where the departures info is.