Recent content by Max

I'm stuck at Bishops Stortford. There are trains in every platform but nothing moving. I was on the way to London for something this evening but looks like I'm not going anywhere!

Thanks - of course I'm totally aware that these tickets are not valid Monday-Friday (as mentioned, I have bought them many times before ;)). And glad to hear that I wasn't imagining the error with the TPE app, and I appreciate you passing that on for me.

Glad to know, but certain apps do not seem to be offering it and I wasn't able to purchase on the machine this morning. The TPE app, which I have used many times to buy this ticket in the past (thanks to the cashback in certain places) is only offering the off peak day travelcard for Greater...

I often take advantage of the very reasonably priced weekend super off peak travelcards on Greater Anglia to travel into London from Cambridge at the weekend. These tickets are great value and a good incentive to avoid the often overcrowded Great Northern trains at the weekend. However, on...

I was the 15th member of the forum after @yorkie convinced me to move across from the UKTrainSim forum (RIP). It's been an important part of nearly two thirds of my life, I've met many fantastic people (some of whom even attended my wedding!) and been on countless enjoyable trips and meals...

I'll give credit to Great Northern tonight, they kept things going in very challenging circumstances. Signal failure (that's what we were told anyway) between Cambridge and Cambridge North at around 5.30, which obviously decimated the service north of Cambridge. However, despite looking like...

Things may have improved on some TOCs this evening but Great Northern seem to have simply given up on the Cambridge route. No fast trains have run from Kings Cross since 20.09 (though it looks like the 22.39 might run...). This in itself is pretty terrible, especially given the incident was...

I've noticed that some guards have started to get a bit hotter on enforcing this recently. On a recent late night London to Manchester Avanti the guard firmly but politely asked two men to stop playing videos out loud "as it's a late night train". This was complied with, with no complaints...

Is it a coincidence that leaving the 2a Act on the statute and commitment to a (rebranded and tweaked) 2b Bill leaves the door open to fill in that Birmingham to Crewe gap later (however it's funded and delivered)? Presumably not.

Are you certain about this? I just checked NRE journey planner again using Shepreth and I can see buses on the 7th, but not the 6th. It's certainly quite strange!

Does anybody know whether GTR plan to run rail replacement buses between Cambridge and Royston on Saturday 6th April? NRE and the Great Northern websites suggest there will be buses running, but no buses show in journey planners or on realtime trains (albeit I am sure they were there when I...

My wife works at the Biomedical Campus and cannot wait for Cambridge South to open. We live east of Cambridge and currently drive to the Babraham Road Park and Ride, but the traffic is so bad around Addenbrookes in the morning that it will make much more sense to park at Cambridge North and take...

The loss of through services from Hull to Manchester is one of the most eye opening changes I've spotted. I don't remember a time when Hull has ever had no direct service to Manchester and it feels like a very retrograde step. Does also slightly undermine the claims about "improvements" from...

See previous post, this service wasn't cancelled in the end but had a set swap and was diverted via Leeds. It's currently been York and Thirsk.

Many thanks for the update! :)