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In other words, I'm looking for a really short train that covers a really long journey. A 50m long train travelling a 1000km journey beats a 400m long train travelling a 2000km journey, for example. Does this include portions of trains that join/divide en route? You can fight that out...

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I just want to check whether what I was told the other day at the ticket office in Glasgow Central was right, because I have a feeling it wasn't. I had the return portion of an Inverness-London Terminals Super Off Peak Return (DSB railcard). Route Any Permitted. I was trying to get some...

Walk-up tickets often have this written on them. "As advertised"? Advertised where? As far as I know the only way to be fully aware of the validity of a non-train-specific ticket is to look it up in the fares manual which is not publicly and easily available, and even if there was a fully...

Tonight I returned to London from a day trip to Brighton. I wanted to come back on the last train. A couple of days ago, I checked online when the last train would be, and it was listed as at 2311. When I arrived in Brighton today, I picked up some paper timetables (one from FCC and one from...

If I have an off-peak return from London-Inverness, and a single from Edinburgh-Fort William valid on the following day's early morning service (ie the one conveying the sleeper coaches) can I just call up Scotrail, pay the sleeper supplement and then use this ticket combination to travel on the...

As far as I'm aware the only rail/ferry ticket now available for the Dover-Calais route is a day return (not that it's formally advertised anywhere as far as I can see). Does anyone know whether there would be any problems buying one of these in advance, and then just using the return portion...

When I ask for times / fares on NRE from Streatham, I'm given the option to choose "Streatham all stations", or I can choose any of the 3 stations: Streatham, Streatham Hill, or Streatham Common. But if I choose "streatham all stations", it just gives me times only from Streatham, and ignores...

I know they get around a bit, the HSTs, but as far as I know there's never really been such a thing as an HST railtour so I'm guessing that they've mainly only been on routes that they've served in regular service. Which part of Britain is the least touched by HST? Has one ever been to Kent...

I've just moved to a flat very close to the South London Line and have seen the nuclear flask train go past a few times (this evening for example). Can anyone tell me, do these run to a regular timetable, or just as and when they are needed? If there is a timetable, would anyone be able to...

Just saw one of the HS1 'Javelin' sets going west along the south london line (between denmark hill and brixton). Anyone know why it was there and where it was going?

So I'm investigating the cheapest ticket options between London and Guildford. I have a z1-2 Oyster travelcard and a Network Railcard. The specific journey times I'm looking at are leaving London on a Friday evening and returning on a Sunday evening or Monday morning but I'm likely to be...

Flickr set here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nothingtoseehere/sets/72157625175560410/with/5093229095/ More info on this thread: http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=36105

Has anyone here been to Albania? If so I'd be interested to hear how you found it. I'd like to visit Tirana (and maybe do a couple of rail trips from there). Also... I'm trying to work out how to get there by land. Doesn't seem like any railways cross the border. There are buses from...

By the "Highland sleepers" I mean the ones to Fort William, Inverness and Aberdeen that leave London as a single train, splitting into separate portions in Edinburgh. I'm not so sure about the Aberdeen portion but the Fort William and Inverness ones often seem to be fully booked out in the...

Just wondering if anyone who has access to the NFM might be kind enough to post up the fares for these tickets - do they work on a zonal basis like the Rail&Sail deals to Ireland? Specifically I'd like to know the fare from Armadale(Skye) to Glasgow via Mallaig. (And another question...

Firstly - can anyone confirm that it is now necessary to touch in and out with an Oyster travelcard if using it on National Rail? It used to be (before the oyster scheme was applied fully across London NR lines) that you only had to touch out if you were using PAYG. The other day I got...

Some photos from 2001 that I've just recently scanned in. http://www.flickr.com/photos/nothingtoseehere/sets/72157624151458273/ I imagine loco haulage is long gone from these lines now?

I guess there's probably no shortage of photos of the caledonian sleeper on the WHL - nevertheless, I've been scanning in some old photos and here is a set from 2004; taken from the northbound Fort William sleeper on a fresh midsummer morning, in the days when the 37s were still in charge...

NRE is giving me a fare of £17 for an off-peak return from London to Banbury. It seems clear that this is valid from Marylebone to Banbury, but I have tried from Paddington too via Reading and Oxford and it looks like the £17 fare is valid this way too. Is that right or am I missing...