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I wonder if this ‘new’ northern will continue (or start on some lines) the much promised ‘northern connect’ services. I have seen precious little of them (in fact none) on Middlesbrough to Newcastle services. Seems like they just throw any train that is available at it. As for ‘Advance fares’...

Pic here from the Daily Express: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1233865/paddington-station-train-crash-great-western-railway-london-news

Are you sure? I couldn't find one at Arram last week (nor Hutton Cranswick or Nafferton). Unless they are disguised as lamp posts or something? Alan

In the past week I have been working away for a couple of days and staying with relatives a closer to where I was working. To get to where I was working from my relatives place, I twice travelled on a northern service from an unstaffed rural station to another unstaffed rural station. Neither...

That is only for injured veterans who've sustained a certain level of physical or psychological injury in the line of duty and who receive either an ongoing War Disablement Pension at the rate for 20% disabled or more, or receive an ongoing guaranteed income payment under the newer Armed Forces...

Sorry if I have posted this in the wrong place, but Grant Shapps (Sec of State for Transport) has today announced that former servicemen/women will be able to buy a 'Veterans Railcard' from November 2020. The new railcard for veterans will be available to buy from 11 November and will cost £21...

How do drivers manage on London Undeground, particularly in the core? I don't know where the nearest WC is for drivers at for example Kings Cross/St Pancreas on the PIcc line, but it must cause problems if the driver needs to leave the train, even for a couple of minutes for a WC break. Alan

Having spent Christmas in New York, I was surprised to see the Subway fully working a Sunday service (which itself is 24 hours on most routes), along with various the commuter lines and some long distance Amtrak routes operating. Having travelled through Penn Station on Christmas morning, there...

I don’t know if this is in the right place or not, but here goes: Reading the article on the introduction of the Nova trains in current edition of RAIL magazine , on Page 13 (ominously) the bottom right corner article talks about the 22 excess Class 185’s possibly remaining with TPE. It also...

From local media: Source: https://www.minsterfm.com/news/local/3000364/severe-damage-to-power-cables-on-the-railway-at-overton-near-york/

I think it is at Overton near Skelton, just north of York on the ECML where the wires are down. Apparently the fire brigade are on route according to local media.

Thank you for that ainsworth 74. I will let her know.

My dear mother-in-law got caught up in the disruption at York on Saturday whilst trying to get home to Scarborough. She could have stayed another night in York, but was told that despite the disruption, that there was no ticket acceptance for the following day (she was on a First class advance...

Have TPE finally given up on having staff post updates on Twitter? Or have the staff become too stressed trying to keep up with all the cancellations? Just noticed this on their twitter feed: https://twitter.com/tpeassist?lang=en The trouble is some of the auto tweets take a bit of...

Many thanks for that.

A genuine question as I don't know the answer, but what if you are at an unmanned station (for example Seamer, or Malton after the booking office place has closed) and the train just doesn't turn up. No taxis to jump into and no station staff to sort anything out. Are you quite litterally on...

Between 2013 and 2016 he was firstly under-minister, then a minister at the Department for Transport. He did an awful lot of good there, such as: Interntionally blank!

And no doubt will turn late running trains round at York (or Malton at a push) as TPE do at will at the moment with scant regard for those heading to Scarborough, or changing at Seamer onto Northern to get to Filey etc. For what good it is, my mother-in-law (a Scarborough resident) ‘commanded’...

I know it probably isn't a popular move, but in the absense of Northern's York to Scarborough 'shuttles', then TPE really do need to look at running the York-Scarborough-York service as a shuttle service themselves to improve reliability. They could run into/out of Platform 2 at York, meaning it...

But the Azuma did break, very effectively - it de-railed and smashed its nose. Or did you mean ''Was the speed too low for the train to brake effectively?'