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I don't understand why this happens. If I search for a journey from Loughborough Junction to Heathrow T2, 6am on the 29th December, NRE shows me what seems to me the most obviously convenient route: Thameslink straight to Farrngdon, then Elizabeth Line straight to Heathrow: But asking the TfL...

The Scotrail website says they are "still working through their train plans" for these days. I'm mainly interested in what's likely to happen on the 27th (travelling southbound from Inverness). My understanding is the NR strike is until 6am or so. Therefore at least morning services are likely...

You're traveling by yourself and boarding a fairly busy train that has a number of unreserved seats. And you fancy getting a pair of seats to yourself. Do you have strategies for this? For example, I might spot a pair of seats that are reserved for the entire journey, with no-one in them, and...

A DP railcard allows the holder & a companion both to travel at the reduced price. It's clear that this is the case where both people have exactly the same ticket type. However the railcard website isn't 100% clear on what the rules are if that's not the case. For example, if the railcard...

Or do they only ever read things from it? For example... say I have an london to Inverness off peak return. I am using the return portion. I go through the gates at Inverness but leave the train at Edinburgh, where the gates are open. On the train from inverness to Edinburgh there's no ticket...

I know this might just prompt the repetition of many arguments that have already been had many times over... Perhaps we can keep this thread focused on the situation now rather than discussions about whether the HST project should have happened in the first place. So far it's had to survive the...

As I understand it, the only places Moving Block signalling has been implemented so far are essentially metro lines. I think this is partly due to the fact they are less complex and often have few junctions? Is it close to being implemented anywhere in a more main-line context yet? How many...

https://www.railtech.com/policy/2022/09/23/european-rail-operators-given-until-year-end-to-come-with-open-ticketing-system-otherwise-mandate-follows/ This is desperately needed, especially if there is any serious ambition to tempt people away from air travel ... but will they manage to make it...

Looking to travel around the end of June (I know there are also the national strikes, but will not be travelling on one of those days). Journey planners tell me: Yet it seems possible to buy tickets for specific services (including advance tickets). So does this mean that I can buy an...

This is the response I have got to a delay repay application which involved a two-leg journey - EMR then Thameslink. The EMR train was on time but the Thameslink one wasn't, hence the overall journey was delayed. I made the application to EMR because that's who I bough the ticket from. The...

Remember when the main irritation was being able to hear tinny noise leaking from headphones, and if you were the culprit, someone might actually ask you to turn the volume down? I'd happily return to that time now. I feel that things seem to have rapidly gone downhill in the past few years...

Today I was booked to travel Inverness to Edinburgh with Scotrail, then Lumo Edinburgh to London. I actually had about 3 hours leeway in Edinburgh to change trains, but a cavalcade of Scotrail cancellations, diversions and delays meant I still missed it. I already knew I was going to miss it...

The Caledonian Sleeper with 16 coaches is the longest domestic service in the UK now. Some discussion on the CS thread highlighted that few stations can actually accommodate it on one platform. But the fact that some stations (including stations off the current regular sleeper route) can...

Does anyone know if Strasbourg sees that much freight traffic? From what I can see online there is a fairly large intermodal terminal at its river port, and it looks like a number of container trains run to and from there, but maybe only in the order of 2 or 3 a day in each direction. There's...

A friend has a TGV Lyria ticket which he can't use, so has offered it to me. It's in the form of a paper, printed ticket (in what I think of as the standard CIV format), but it has his name on it. The question is whether there would be any problem in my using it. I can find Lyria conditions...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/omicron-the-latest-variant-of-concern.225357 If we say that the response to Covid is entirely responsible for these knock-on problems then it suggests that there were alternative responses that could have avoided or reduced them...

https://www.railfreight.com/intermodal/2021/09/17/cargobeamer-connects-french-intermodal-line-to-uk/ I just came across this, and haven't seen it discussed anywhere. I assume there's no scope to extend it to other locations in the UK (beyond HS1) because of loading gauge restrictions, so isn't...

Spotted this next to the Oxford-banbury line a bit North of Oxford, whilst out on a walk. I'm curious whether it's a bit of the 'bridge rail' profile I think was used for early GWR (broad guage?) track... Or is it something else altogether and I'm jumping to conclusions?

What are candidates for this? I am thinking of junctions, station throats, yards and so on - that is, extensive and complicated trackwork in a relatively self-contained area. Not complex system networks over a large area. I suppose you might define the 'edge' of any such complex as the point at...

Last year we lost quite a slew of services still running with droplight stock, with HSTs disappearing from LNER and GWR, and the Caledonian Sleeper going over to mk 5s. So what's left - and what's likely to be the last place we can enjoy them on regular workings? I think at the moment we have...