Recent content by samshltn

Thanks for your reply. We're doing it over two days, seems pretty straightforward. Should be lovely. Thanks for your help.

Hi, I hope you don't mind me using this forum to pick your expert brains on this subject: I want to travel from Euston to Llandudno Junction, and 'return' from Bangor. (I'm going to walk between the two over the weekend). I don't want to buy two separate single tickets. My plan is to buy a...

I see what you did there.

I was hoping for a bit more detail than I'd already found myself. For example, from front to back, what coaches are of what type (SLE, SLEP, SLED, TSO... etc....). I'd assumed that a forum of rail experts could have given me a bit more depth than Wikipedia! I'm aware that the service...

Thanks CosherB. It's funny, I read that article just before I came here to ask the question. Can you see anywhere in the place you linked to that answers the question I asked? Or... do you know the answer please?

Thanks! Do you know what the train consist of please? How many coaches, what type, etc?

I'm on the sleeper tonight, from PAD to PNZ, and back up on Sunday night. Is there anything interesting, unusual or irregular I should be aware of?

You're correct. I've just checked and it's only for this area. I have one myself, and assumed it was UK-wide because I mostly travel in this area, and it's always been fine for me!

I wonder what the 'NRS' stood for in this context? In my trade (airlines) it would be 'Non-revenue standby'. Does anyone know what it means here?

I'm not sure if it's what you mean, exactly, but what about a Network Railcard?

Does this forum think that the Friday night sleeper from PAD to PNZ will be affected by this? Should all be sorted by then, right? Right?!

Where does it go to 'park' during the day?

I chatted via Twiter with GWR this morning. They say that they are 'still waiting for the refurb to start'. The tweet I was replying to was from July 2014. Does anybody know when they're likely to actually do this refurb?

I've just read about the refurbishment these SLEPs are getting... and seen the lovely pictures on co-tr-paul's Tumblr. It asked some more questions in my mind... When would we know whether a 'refurbished' or 'unrefurbished' SLEP is operating on a particular date/route? Not until the day of...

Oh, good. That sounds like a real joy. :roll: So it's only for First Class... What constitutes First Class on this service? I have paid for a compartment to myself. Does that make me First Class? Thank you to everyone for being so helpful and interesting. I'm very interested in trains...