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The draft pdfs of the December national rail timetable still show the operator code as VT. Mind you, they still show West Midlands Trains/London Northwestern as LM. Apparently it's too difficult to change systems. Virgin are going to love that, especially if things take a downward turn.

I'm one of the [un]lucky souls who does a bit of 'sense checking' for the public National Rail GB timetable. A quick glance at the first cut of pdf of Table 68 for December appears to show two LNW Liverpool-London at xx10 and xx40 (combines at New Street with service from Crewe). In the other...

But something even better may be on its way. In the July 31 issue of Rail Magazine, Barry Doe reported that he took up the non-publication of the previous book with LNWR, who "immediately explained that Network Rail was late in agreeing times for May for some parts of its network. This would...

Check on Virgin's Best Fare Finder and it will have all the info you need. Virgin have been selling advance fares for that week for a while (their horizon is now well into January - excluding the days over Christmas and New Year), so the very cheapest may well have gone but I've just looked and...

And finally around here, on Saturday 14 & Sunday 15 September in Northampton, classic buses will be running around the various buildings etc taking part in the Heritage Open Days, including trips out of town as far as Earls Barton, Blisworth and Weedon...

And just down the road in Rugby on Monday 16 September, an old Midland Red S22 single decker will be outside the visitor centre and running a couple of 45-minute tours. This one you do need to book for. https://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/visiting/event/vintage-bus

Coventry National Express Garage in Ford Street will be open to the public on Saturday 21 September, 10am-4pm. https://www.coventry.gov.uk/events/event/7025/national_express_garage_-_heritage_open_days_2019

The new later train advertised by LNR is their 2149 to Crewe - fast to Rugby then via Nuneaton etc - that was introduced with the May timetable change. Not sure how representative it was, but the one evening I've used it (last week), it was barely 10% full. Is there the demand, I wonder. Or...

The last couple of times I've seen a security guy at Rugby he's been sat in the corner of the small shelter at the north end of platform 5 looking at his phone and seemingly very bored. The guys there in the late evening do seem much more aware of what is going on, though.

Weymouth Quay - closed in 1987, I think

Most on-train announcements on the Taipei MRT system come in four languages: Mandarin, Taiwanese, Hakka, and English. Station information screens and signs are all bilingual: Traditional Chinese (the written is the same however pronounced) and English. What is impressive is the way the time to...

Needless to say, it's not quite as simple as the Sun likes to make out. It's also two-week-old news, the changes having been announced by the Office of Road and Rail on December 3rd. I'm not quite sure how it will increase open access given the changes include open access operators being...

Yes it is - and it usually works well. WMT is free too.

There are some leaflets in the booking office at Euston 'explaining' (after a fashion) the change, and that ticket offices will be closed or reduced-staffed on training days. Unfortunately, I didn't pick one up. It seems they are going to have less staff at windows in ticket offices but with...

Apologies if the answer is already on here somewhere. If it is, I can't find it. I need to get from Euston to Heathrow Terminal 5 on July 12, a Piccadilly Line strike day, so am stuck with tfl Rail or Heathrow Express. It seems the cheapest way (unless I hop on bus 350 from Hayes & Harlington)...

In my experience, yes, 90 minutes is fine; and if it wasn't OK the vast, vast majority of the time, Aer Lingus wouldn't be offering it as an itinerary. Of course, nothing is guaranteed and things can go wrong. If you Google or dip into Tripadvisor, you'll find people saying they missed flights...

I was told that, provided both flights were on one booking, on an itinerary produced by the Aer Lingus booking system, then yes, they will simply rebook you if delayed either at immigration or on the first flight itself. It's no different really to what would happen at any other connecting...

I travelled on Aer Lingus from Birmingham to New York via Dublin at the end of May. Connection time between flights was 1 hour 40 mins. When I queried if this was long enough this with Aer Lingus (in writing, e-mail, safer) they said no problem as minimum time for such connections is 1 hour 30...

Very true, although I have my doubts about just how much. I feel a much more likely area for housing growth and station expansion would have been Braunston & Willoughby (the area is nice and flat, although the old station was on an embankment), which also has much better road links to Daventry...

Charwelton was indeed served by Geoff Amos coaches of Eydon and before them, KW Coaches of Daventry, but the main route was Eydon - Woodford Halse - Daventry. The extension to a Rugby-Banbury service came much much later (marketed as the Great Central Connection). Looking at a 1986 timetable, I...