Recent content by Kingsman

An option not mentioned so far, I think, is to take a boat ride from Toronto straight across Lake Ontario to Niagara (Canadian side).

Lisbon Apolónia is classical of its time. But unfortunately RENFE, Spanish railways, took the Covid opportunity to cancel all the connections to the rest of Europe (sleepers in general, specially France, Barcelona, Madrid to Portugal) There remain some difficult cross-border services, not...

As it hapoens I'm in Poschiavo for a couple of nights, all the trains around here (a remote town several hours from Zurich and nearer Milano) are well occupied and more so at weekends. Local people travel between local shops and friends, tourists and other Swiss travel for mountain walking and...

I have lived in Switzerland half the time over the last fifty years, the weekends are when most people escape from city living. 0900 on Sunday morning is a very busy time at Genève Cornavin, Lausanne, Bern, Bienne, Basel SBB, Zürich HB etc. and all the feeder lines are in full swing. The purpose...

Well...and greetings from Switzerland, Südostbahn AG is the independent company that has many routes, but in particular has taken on the old main north-south route across the Gotthard pass from Basel/Zürich to Lugano, while the Swiss Federal Railways now use the quicker "basis" tunnel. Like all...

It's a curiousity to me that the Caledonian sleepers now have threads going back 279 pages, and yet there is very little about the Cornwall train, pleasantly refurbished, running efficiently, now with functioning lounge bar again (possibly the only legal functioning indoor bar in England?)

See the thread "Sept. GWR delay-repay claim, first response Dec."

Finally managed to speak late last night to a very helpful and competent assistant, who looked up the emailed reply references on the system; the reply today was "I can confirm that I am going to send you a cheque for £192.75 and £50 rail travel vouchers ", the vouchers being unasked for, but in...

Nothing further received by email or otherwise, what should I do next?

Total absence of response, this just to let you know that I will post again if ever something happens.

Well, when I first telephoned they made a point of sending me an email with an attachment for compensation to be filled in and returned by post, so I rather assumed that they recognised some sort of potential entitlement. Where precisely am I supposed to copy all my correspondence from home? I...

Delay repay submitted (logged 19/9/16) for a cancelled Truro - Paddington - Waterbeach journey (first advance ticket Truro-Pad., first open rtn King's Cross - Waterbeach, 1147 10/9/16 train cancelled, according to staff at Truro because driver failed to turn up for the down train, so no...

It is not only harsh but very offensive.

As it happens, I booked online, yesterday, two solo berths for travel from Paddington to Penzance tomorrow (Sunday) night, which were available with super off peak singles at £41.30 each with SNR railcard. The offer of berths, or indeed seats, came up as usual on the next screen after ticket...