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Extracts from this article: To put it briefly; looking at the passenger figures for 2011, Manchester's traffic rose by 6.5% compared to 2010, while traffic at Stansted declined by 2.8%. No doubt Manchester Airport Group will be very pleased by this, as they lost this spot in the rankings...

Just had someone ask me this. Do you think it would be acceptable to catch a train with a ferret on a lead? I've looked this up and the National Rail website mentions dogs on leads, but it says nothing about cats or ferrets on leads. It does mention a carrier for cats and small animals...

Some welcome news for passengers.... Story from BBC NEWS: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15907255

I've travelled extensively on the NS network, however I've never had the need to do this: I need to buy a ticket for Schipol to Heerlen. The price is 22,90 euros for a single. The route on the journey planner is given as one change at Utrecht. Now, I know you can break your journey on NS...

Anyone else like these Siemens/CAF units? I think they're underrated! As seen in my current avatar, these are my favourite modern commuter EMUs. They somehow manage to have a comfortable 3-2 seating layout, they look very sleek (more modern than Electrostars IMHO) and are just generally...

I've just returned from Germany and I decided to get the train all the way back to the UK. Now, I've travelled quite extensively on most of the Western European networks (the Netherlands, Denmark, France, Spain, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden e.t.c) however somehow I've missed the...

Read more...www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-15217173 TfL VIDEO ABOUT THE PROJECT: http://youtu.be/tKLeeXmnjnI

Does anyone notice what advert banners are on the site each day, I seem to be getting Thomson Cruises, House of Fraser and KLM today. I don't want to give these companies too much publicity (:lol:), but is there some form of detection software at work to determine the advert or is it purely...

I was on a late night train last weekend, and there was quite a few revellers onboard. Now, since the passengers were rather drunk and quite loud, I wasn't expecting the guard to appear. However, he did try to collect payment. He tacked the groups in a jovial manner and managed to collect many...

I had to respond to this point in a different thread... There is no such thing as "no accent", I hear that all the time! Everyone has an accent, what your saying is you believe you speak a form of Standard English (or essentially Received Pronunciation). RP is defined in the Concise Oxford...

It looks like National Express has lost interest in UK rail franchises, it's now planning a move to regional rail franchises in Germany. For the benefit of the thread: as you may or may not know, in a number of European countries, regional rail services now go out to tender in the open market...

The long awaited Personal Rapid Transit system has become fully operational this summer at Heathrow Airport. The full service has now commenced between Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 and Business Parking T5. It runs 22 hours a day with three 'stations' and 4 kilometres of guideway. Has anyone...

I was prompted to start a new thread by this post, which was a response to my surprise that so many on this forum had never travelled on an aircraft before. I often travel outside of the UK, and I'm usually out of the country for one month of the year to visit family. I read an interesting...

Interesting article... LINK TO ARTICLE on Rail.co

I thought this would be the best place for this topic. The stereotypical drunk approached me on a very quiet 323 between Wilmslow and Alderley Edge today asking for the typical 50p. I politely refused, initially he just walked away and I thought I...

To mention, it has to be a publicly timetabled service, running in service for passengers. I have only really experienced this twice that I took note of - once onboard a Ellesmere Port to Warrington Bank Quay Northern service for almost the full route (this service runs once a day) and once...

I was passing through a village yesterday that had a humerous place name, which got me thinking. Some examples I have got from the UK. Crapstone, Devon. ****t, Orkney Islands Bitchfield, Linconshire From Europe... Killer, Germany. Katzenhirn (Cat's Brain), Germany. Batman, Turkey. Monster...

Apart from the part-time ticket office with very limited hours at this station, is there a working TVM in place? I can see one on the National Rail station maps, but it is not functional at the time of audit.

What do rail staff generally do when they are not sure about a station's location on a ticket, in terms of validity on that service? A worked example - A Cark & Cartmel to Parson Street Anytime Return. I bet a fair few rail staff (guards, RPIs or contracted inspectors) wouldn't be too sure...

From the BBC Article Speculations about up to 1,500 jobs, but this is by no means comfirmed as yet.