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I was at this weekend's Bluebell gala, and was pleasantly surprised by the number of young children around. Okay, some were obviously not that interested, but most were. What I also noticed was how intimidated and upset many were by the sound of a steam loco whistling or blowing off. One...

I have an off-peak return from Birmingham NS to West Brompton. It has a + symbol, indicating that it is valid via the underground, and West Brompton is a valid station to travel to with a + symbol. However, on various journey planners I have tried, they come up with valid routes via Watford...

It came as a bit of a shock to me to read about the Bluebell’s financial difficulties. I had assumed that as one of the big players, and with a significant and prosperous catchment area, the Bluebell would be relatively immune to such pressures. However, if the Bluebell is struggling, how are...

I noticed at Edgware Road, at the Paddington end of the Wimbledon platform, a marker board, with an identical board labelled "CoActor". This CoActor board was mounted at identical height to the main board, just a foot or two from of it (I can't recall now which comes first). What is the...

Making a journey from New Pudsey to Birmingham this Saturday, I booked my ticket on line. I was given a reservation for New Pudsey to Leeds, but no mention of a reservation on the 1611 XC train from Leeds to New Street. .My previous experiences with XC have shown reservations on their services...

Checking for journeys from Birmingham NS to London this Sunday, the Avanti and National Rail journey planners are both showing 2 trains per hour at xx47 and xx21. Including trains arriving at Euston well after 20:00. However, Realtime trains and Opentrain times are only showing one train an...

Avanti seem to have blocked the sale of all tickets for this coming Sunday, even though they are running trains. How does this affect Delay Repay? If I were to attempt to travel, e.g. using the return portion of an off-peak return, would I be able to claim Delay Repay if my train were...

I was under the impression that you claimed Delay Repay from the TOC whose train delayed you. Has this changed? The reason I ask is that on multiple occasions I have heard Avanti guards make an announcement that because the train has been delayed passengers are entitled to claim DR, which can...

There has been a radio comms issue today, reported in this thread: Nationwide Signal Issue i had assumed that a GSM failure would be fairly localised, say an individual radio mast, but the idea of a single failure taking out the whole national network is concerning. While this has been reported...

I am trying to book tickets (Off-Peak returns) for travel this weekend, using the Avanti web-site in order to gain club avanti points. However, whenever I select trains from the list, I get one of two messages: 1) Sorry, it is not possible to book on this travel 2) There are no more seats...

The Mariazell Museum Tramway mainly seems to be open weekends, and my trips in previous years on the Mariazellerbahn have been on days when the tramway wasn't running. However, this year I arranged it for a day when they were open. Previously, when I had visited Mariazell, I had spotted the...

The thread below already covers some examples, so thought I would add my own: Extreme weather in Germany, Poland, Austria, Czechia - Travel Disruptions Expected Last year, travel between Vienna Hbf and the airport was affected by single-line working due to engineering work, and on the day I was...

A recent thread highlighted that there are various features built into the Oyster card system designed to catch fraudulent use, but which can sometimes unwittingly catch out legitimate users. In the case in question, the user made what he considered to be two quite separate journeys with a...

I am intending to travel to Vienna at the end of October, then subsequently travel to Germany, and then return to the UK in early November. I understand that it is intended to introduce the EES at the beginning of November (the new cubicles seem to be all powered up and running when I passed...

Passenger information on the Wimbledon and Edgware Road branches seems to be very poor. This morning, waiting on the North bound platform at West Brompton, the platform indicator was displaying the trains as: 1. Check front of train 2. District Line 3. District Line Well, I know that they are...

In a recent thread, a passenger who had bought tickets for travel between Oxford and Halifax via XC decided to travel instead via London due to disruption. He bought new tickets for travel via London, and got his old tickets refunded...

As I understand it, one of the main advantages of Advance fares for TOCs was that they could take the whole fare for that ticket, rather than having to share it like they do with the regulated fares. Because you are restricted to travelling on that particular TOC's train, it should get all the...

Today I was returning from Croydon to Machynlleth with an off peak return, with an itinerary Croydon - Watford Jcn - Birmingham - Mach. I actually started my journey from Shepherd's Bush. Unfortunately when I arrived at the station, I discovered that the hourly Watford train was cancelled...

Apologies that this is a long post, but it is a summary of a dispute that has been going on now for the best part of 6 months. Last year, I had a weekend away to London, travelling on an off-peak return bought from TfW. I was delayed by over 2 hours by Avanti West Coast on my outward journey...

According to the PID traffic notices, local rail services over the river bridge were reduced last December, due to problems with the bridge. Does anybody have any further information, in particular when services might be restored. A lot of money was spent on resignalling and other upgrades to...