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The EU parliament doesn’t have legislative initiative so maintining a majority or coalition is less important than, say, in Westminster. Its members also don’t form the executive so also reducing the importance of maintining a status quo for longer periods.

Well I’d rather have delay repay than that proposed compensation system. Especially since delay repay now starts at 15 minutes. Most of these already seem to exist in the UK. Compensation, break of journey, split ticket journey rules.

Luckily for me the start date is next week so I'm not losing out on anything yet. It does make you wonder though - if they're doing this by default with online orders how many people are losing out on a potential decent saving for their leisure trips? Especially when then their phone staff don't...

I ordered an annual season ticket from GWR to allow me to get a Gold Card. I used the GWR website out of habit (I prefer the mixing deck) even though it's a Hatton to Lapworth ticket. It arrived on a normal, grey, ticket with just 'Season' written on it. I checked with a TfL staff member if...

The chances of catching HIV from a used plaster are pretty much minimal. Even if you picked up the syringe used by a HIV positive person and then used it to inject something into yourself the chance of getting HIV is about 0.5%. Even being spat on the chances are negligible.

If somebody only wanted the off peak Oyster discount in London (or other rail), can they simply buy an annual season ticket for somewhere within the gold card zone with no intention of actually doing that journey?

I'd normally like electronic tickets. But now I've got an advance ticket I'd like to change and it seems that that is difficult to do. You think the more modern product would be more modern and be able to deal with changes. A paper ticket would've been less hassle and could be changed online.

Perhaps I don’t understand the fear, but is it not possible to travel at night? Then you can’t tell the difference between being in a tunnel or not on the ECML. I always do my Newcastle to London trips at night (cheaper fares then) and can never tell when we’re in the tunnel under the M25 which...

As a last hurrah of my Railcard before I'm no longer eligible for one I'd like to take advantage of one of the cheaper berths on a sleeper train. Let's say my Railcard has a valid until date of 1 September. If I use it for a Sleeper service which leaves at 10pm on the 1st and arrives at my...

In Italy Italo operates Italobus to towns without rail services. Photo of it is here: https://www.italotreno.it/it/destinazioni-orari/italobus

As many of you, I like the occasional railway journey, and every now and then I treat myself to first class. But right now I don't have a specific destination in mind, I'd just like to try some of the best first class services in Europe. So in your opinion, what is it? It might even be in the...

If it's any use the Citymapper app covers Stockholm and does it really well. It shows local bus options to the airports as well as the Flygbussarna coaches.

If you're a business you charge what you can. Just because costs may be lower, the price you charge the customer can be completely different. BA flies the 747 and the 787 between London and New York. The 747 uses about 10,000kg of fuel an hour and the 787 about 5000kg. Even though the 747 has...

Thanks! I've found another, Swiss railways: https://www.sbb-shop.ch/pub/index.php?&l=en Ideally though I'd prefer it on the city level. Vienna's U-Bahn and Stockholm's Metro do some cool keyrings with their logos on etc. Given how iconic some metro logos on I'd have thought that there...

and preferably with an online shop too. I want to get some rail/transport related souvenirs, and I'd like it to be branded to real networks rather than just a train model in a made up livery (for example). I know there's the London Transport Museum selling lots of branded stuff...

The recent reports from ORR and the like mention this about delay repay and how it should be easier. So staff shouldn't be stopping people keeping their tickets.

Since the company operating the trains is often legally different to their parent, but still owned by them, do their staff still benefit from staff travel? For example, GWR is run by First Greater Western Ltd. The in turn is owned by First Group. So do First Group (head office, not...

Heathrow Express. Their yellow quilted jacket things look quite good.

Is this restricted to those firms with a PQQ passport, even if in a joint venture, to qualify for the 250km/h running requirement? Could someone with a PQQ passport go into a JV with, say, NTV, who run the Italo trains in Italy despite NTV not having a PQQ passport? Trenitalia is on there but...