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That's the challenge - how well do you know your trains? How many of you could confidently identify a train just by it's sound. You are blindfolded and taken to a mystery station. On arrival you are taken to a platform and asked to listen to and identify the next train that comes in. For...

Just looking at services through Glasgow Central on Realtime Trains and saw that the low level services show platforms 14 and 15 (their old numbers pre 2008) instead of 16 and 17 which they carry now. Other platforms (such as the new 14 and 15) all show correctly. Has anyone else noticed...

Just downloaded the new National Rail Timetable and note that for a large number of the tables, one direction (normally the latter, so in many cases the Up) has the timetable number suffixed with an R. Does anyone know the reasons for this? I cant find anything in the notes, which are...

Don't know if Anyone else saw it, but a pair of class 159s were working a Waterloo - Reading diagram on Friday. I can see the line from my office and get used to the regular 458s going by. The sound of a diesel makes me look up for longer and having doubted myself earlier in the morning...

Good evening I wonder if one of the fares advisors can help me please. I am travelling up to London tomorrow from Wokingham, via Reading, using an Any Permitted Off Peak Day Travelcard for £24.30. If I use my Network card, this comes down to £16.05, but clearly I can not leave until...

Another two faux-pas for the BBC. Over the weekend, following talk of the MML electrification, a series of shots was used to illustrate the MML at Sheffield. The problem - Virtually all of the views from the one minute or so sequence were of Pacers coming and going from Sheffield station -...

I was recently asked to reaserch train times for a colleague going to one of the Olympic events at Greenwich Park. They have been given a Games Travelcard with their ticket- Is this treated just the same as a standard Travelcard? For example, as they live in Bracknell can they purchase a...

As posted elsewhere, we are a few days into a 14 day All Line Rover. When we bought the tickets, the system also printed date matrix cards. I have had these before with a 3in7 day rover (makes sense) but could not understand why we got them with an ALR, which is clearly for consecutive days as...

Just been looking up a few places on Google Earth and came across an unusual sight just to the West of Newton Station in South Lanarkshire. On the Up Fast line avoiding the station, there are a pair of Pendolino Driving cars sitting back to back, with no loco or similar in the vicinity. This...

Travelled on the 1812 Waterloo to Basingstoke this evening, formed of 3x Class 450 with 450088 leading. This train is non stop to Brookwood then all stations to Basingstoke. The PIS was loaded shortly before leaving Wateloo, which then proudly declared through internal visual displays and...

Don't know if anyone else has noticed, but there seems to be more and more instances of rail staff doing things that they ould aprehend passengers for doing. We saw an example yesterday when on boarding a Cross Country service at Reading, the Catering assistant was taking her break in the...