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The Nuremberg museum was interesting for a couple of hours, they had a special exhibit on the train toilet when I was there in 2024. My main memory was that it was stifling hot with no air con. Not much fun in August even in the morning. Interesting timeline about the changing network with...

on the 450s what I don't like is how dirty they generally seem. I don't find visible dirt on the rest of the seats

Many people have semi flexible travel patterns and take a variety of different trains in the morning, depending on their schedule at work. They can work both from home and in the office. If for example I had an hour long meeting at 9am which could take place on Teams or in person - followed by...

Hi the link https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/ticket-types/tickets/ftc/ Mentions that Family off peak travelcards are available on SWR, but I can't any mention of this elsewhere nor on Brfares for my station Farnborough. Is this something coming soon or a typo? SWR is one of the London TOCs that...

and much cheaper compared to similar length NR journey into London. It's £22 for 35 miles /45 mins from Farnborough to London Waterloo, not sure what investment this line has had recently

Unfortunately what's not always calculated is that the lack of Sunday bus and evening services that stop people using public transport for work, unless the congestion and parking costs are very high, if I need a car for my social life, I might as well drive to work. For bigger places like say...

At Waterloo you can always use the barriers a fair distance from your platform and walk across on the paid side to your platform. In extreme scenarios the paid side subway under the platforms is a better place to wait.

The hourly x39 Waterloo to Southampton semis (at times further SW) - providing the second fast service to Farnborough are still cut. This cuts Southampton from 3 to 2tph and Farnborough from 4 to 3tph. You can see the gaps in the peaks too. There's no Woking fast service between 1730 and 1750...

It's a real pity that the government legislation has not kept up with a raft new of e-mobility. There is a world of difference from legal ebikes made to British standards and illegally modified Deliveroo/ Just eat emotorbikes. That's probably why Brompton ebikes are still allowed. - though...

Is anything going to be improved following this work?, or is it just like for like?

last night Network Rail sent a self congratulatory tweet saying they'd completed the work and the signalling was back on. No mention of traction power

Thankfully ToCs are on the way out and GBR will hopefully be empowered to come up with better alternatives which are consistent nationally and achieve the goal of increasing Rail ridership

I agree with this, I had Young Person railcard in the 90s, it had a minimum Peak fare and the Summer no peak fare restrictions. The difference was that if I wanted to buy tickets in advance I had to go to a ticket office and the restrictions would be explained to me at the point of sale. On the...

ToC because young people buy a car instead

@northernassist couldn't explain the restrictions for this railcard fully in a single tweet - they missed out the minimum fare affects tickets up to £18 not £12. The simple way to fix this would be to remove the minimum fare from this railcard. I wonder how much this would cost in lost revenue...