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Let`s get back to basics, why is any train company reserving seats so that some people can reserve at the last moment over anyone else ? Take this theoretical example. I get on at Sheff to travel to Edinburgh, someone gets on at Donc and there`s no seat. What`s to stop him then using his phone...

Just to clarify this, if one was travelling on a day return ticket bought at a station (or a rail rover) one could still get a 10 minute seat reservation ? Not that I think short notice seat reservations are acceptable anyway I hasten to add. They`re only acceptable if you`re not asking someone...

This is how I see it, there are only a certain number of seats on a train, seat reservations allow people to jump the queue (effectively) for a seat. Now if it`s clear on the seats exactly when they`re reserved from the point any particular passenger gets on the service then being able to...

Sorry, are we suffering from a breakdown in communication here ? You get on a train, there`s a choice of unreserved seats, you pick one, the train fills up so there aren`t many (or even any) seats left. Half way though the journey someone gets on and says I`ve reserved that seat 10 minutes ago...

Sorry if this question has already been asked before, my point refers quite specifically to this new instant online ticket booking that XC (and possibly other TOCs) may introduce. Is it really the case that you could get on a train, pick an unreserved seat which then subsequently becomes...

To be honest I find the noise from headphone overspill even more annoying than mobile phone conversations..... Quite apart from anything else at least mobile phone conversations eventually come to an end, people listening to music on their (non personal) personal stereos can go on for the whole...

I`m a bit behind on learning about Cross Country Trains ditching their Quiet Coaches, but I have to say it`s really rather depressed me. The tinny overspill from other passengers headphones is something I find intensely irritating, it`s actually enough to ruin a journey for me. How I yearn for...

I think you`re forgetting the salient fact, crossing are used by trains and road vehicles/pedestrians. It`s not just about the trains..... So, if I'm out for a hike somehwhere in the middle of nowhere, or I use a crossing to get somewhere without a half mile detour and I get to (what once...

I don`t fully agree with you. I think some people will try to jump the lights whatever, but if all drivers had more confidence that they`d not be there waiting for ages with no train (like I have been a few times at Rossington) I feel fewer would try to run the crossings. --- old post above ---...

Could someone please explain to me why it's considered a positive when Network rail manage to close a level crossing or path crossing ? It's certainly not a positive for those who use them (unless a bridge is built, which is relatively uncommon)..... I have to say I think all this stuff...

Yes Celtic sounds more like it.

I always think the pattern looks vaguely Egyptian. I am right that all Class 158s have the same pattern don't they ? If so surely they must have put some thought into what was going to go there, so what is it ? Someone must know !

I agree the standards of the articles is a bit inconsistent. I also don`t understand how, when they`ve got the whole of the railways world to go at for articles to only fill one magazine they publish articles like visiting all the stations with names of only three letters ! How contrived is that...

Here's something I've often pondered as I've travelled on Class 158s over the years. What, if anything, is the pattern meant to represent which is etched onto the glass sides of the luggage shelves at the end of the carriages ? ! ?

As I said in a previous post the articles on WWI & WW2 railways in the July RWM were actually very interesting. However, why does their letters editor persist in printing letters congratulating the RWM as being the best thing since sliced bread ? ! ? It's nauseating ! ! ! I quote a particularly...

To be fair, I have to say I think the articles on railways at war in the current RWM are very interesting.

I went to Peterlee today but had to catch a bus from Hartlepool. To make matters worse the bus didn't even go from outside Hartlepool station, and to rub salt into the wound it was virtually full.... There are some really rather small places which have had a new or reopened station, surely...

I'd have thought there were quite a few people who wanted to keep up with the railway scene but haven't the money/time/shelf space to get more than one magazine. Thus, if the RWM is to be believed, it really isn't a surprise that they have the greatest circulation. The RWM's content has defn...

I haven't got the time to read (or shelf space to store....) more than one railway magazine so does anyone have any suggestions of railway magazines on the market which cover all areas of the railway scene ? The Railway Magazine is the obvious one and I've been getting it for years in fact...

Well all I can say is that we went down to Little Brampton on Friday, it's about 20miles south of Shrewsbury, and (including a 45 min stop for lunch) it took five and a half hours ! The M1 was very slow due to congestion, then became a car park at junction 25 with the signs saying there was a...