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    Passports Required from 28 September for Ferry Travel Republic of Ireland to Great Britain

    Most passports are electronic now, it'll be a much easier way to stop people with a warrant out for their arrest. I wonder whether Labour are looking to make amendments to the good friday agreement by tightening up the loopholes to go (by the back door) after ex IRA? The main title headline will...
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    Sail Rail fishguard ferry cancellations

    Hi all, Booked from London to Rosslare via Fishguard on Monday. Should they cancel the ferry what alternative arrangements can be expected for a sail rail passenger? Do they transfer is to Irish ferries route from pembroke?
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    SailRail product offering needs a root and branch overhaul

    Bring back the direct London - Fishguard boat trains I say, but I know it's very wishful thinking :(
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    TfW have withdrawn Sail-Rail tickets via Holyhead

    Amazing! the ship only went for refit in 2023, I wonder what they got wrong?
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    TfW have withdrawn Sail-Rail tickets via Holyhead

    The route via Fishguard - Rosslare is still completely unavailable :(
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    TfW have withdrawn Sail-Rail tickets via Holyhead

    CLICK THIS HERE To see the internal update to all TFW staff regarding the Sail Rail ticket suspension. Interestingly it says Rosslare to Fishguard is still available, where it quite clearly is not! For those of you who can not open the above link, this is the text within:
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    TfW have withdrawn Sail-Rail tickets via Holyhead

    Unless you're buying them in person at Rosslare, they still only use written tickets.
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    Sail rail ticket routing? Ireland to London.

    Is anybody able to let me know the permitted routing from both fishguard to London and Holyhead to London? I was wondering with the class 68 and mk5 sets coming back in to use, from Holyhead could I travel down via Birmingham moore street on one of those? And out of curiosity, what are all...
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    End of the station's word!

    Kildare
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    Is there a new steepest gradient?

    The new London overground extension to Barking Riverside has a flyover at the junction from ripple lane sidings area. It looks incredible steep at places and probably only suitable for distributed traction, is this now the steepest incline on our railway?
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    Trivia: longest delay?

    If you include the rail and sail fares in which also work with delay repay, then... 24 hours in some cases recently on the Rosslare route.
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    Seeking Advice on Fare Evasion Fine – Feeling Stuck Financially

    Can you not cancel the holiday to use the money to pay the penalty? Better than eventually getting a criminal record if you don't?
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    Seeking Advice on Fare Evasion Fine – Feeling Stuck Financially

    A fine is not supposed to be in budget, if it were to be in budget, it wouldn't be much of a deterrence?
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    Is this bus actually free?

    I know between underground stations it is free, because they close the entrance to the stations and the oyster pads are inside.
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    Electric bike on London Overground - continually being ejected from trains.

    The bike looks very similar to this one here but a 36v 250w version. I have been revenue inspected three times in the last month on the Barking Riverside to Gospel Oak line and once on the North London Line. Twice being ejected to not cause a scene, and once I managed to persuade the...

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