Recent content by Leslie Fletcher

Levenshulme will be quite a challenge - on a high embankment, hemmed in by streets and buildings.

Thank you forum members; all this has been very helpful.

My wife and I will be travelling from Manchester to Berlin in September, a journey we have done several times before so we have a reasonable understanding of what is involved. We usually take two days over it, breaking our journey in Brussels. We will be using Interrail passes so plenty of...

After all, it is Transport FOR Wales, not Transport IN Wales.

Which brings Tal-y-Cafn within scope

It could have been hard to judge whether I would have trouble with the step down. I am quite elderly but carrying a rucksack with walking poles after a walk along a section of the Wales Coast Path. However, I think that misses my point. Aware of my limits, I would have used the Harrington Hump...

… if there is nothing to tell you where on the train to make use of them. Last week I had reason to alight at North Llanrwst, which has Harrington Humps on both platforms. The stop board on the southbound platform is positioned so that the Harrington Hump is adjacent to the back (second) coach...

I am, as you put it, particularly time sensitive on this occasion. I am familiar with and have used the ICE alternative to continue my journey from London and usually put up with the two hour wait. When my wife and I did this journey a few weeks ago we weren't even down on the concourse by...

Can Interrail passes be used on the Eurostar/Thalys direct trains between Brussels and Dusseldorf, subject to the necessary seat reservations? If so, how do I make the reservations? My go-to site at SNCB responds with an error message and I can’t find how to just make a seat reservation at SNCF...

I have an off-peak return Manchester<->Euston bought as a E-ticket using the Avanti app. I find I am not able to use the (still valid) return half. Can I claim a refund? (The Avanti website says “yes” in one place and “no” in another.) If “yes” how do I do it? (The instructions on the Avanti...

Thanks for this - very helpful

In a few weeks time I am travelling from the UK to Wolgast on the Baltic coast of Germany and back again a few weeks after that. This isn’t the first time I have done this journey but I am baffled by what the Deutsche Bahn website is giving me this time. I am offered itineraries with a change at...

Having just travelled through Buckenham station (on a cab ride video, not for real) surely it has the longest list of quirks. In the middle of nowhere, staggered platforms separated by a road crossing, platforms the “wrong way round” (that is, before the crossing), at least a platform’s length...

Thanks for this; it seems my recollection was possibly half correct. The map you linked to does make the point quite clearly - there was a great deal more at Market Harborough in the past than there is today.

I am a bit surprised that Market Harborough hasn’t been mentioned here. Two through routes, now just one, exchange sidings completely gone, station reduced to two platforms from ? Probably four except that I have a vague memory from my one visit to the station about 60 years ago of four...