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I could just use some advice from people with experience of working on the railway but I'll just quickly lay out the situation I'm in first. At the moment I'm a primary school teacher. I mostly really like my job but sometimes I skirt around burnout due to workload pressures and the unforgiving...

I've been looking at fares to the IOW from Southampton Central. On BRFares SOU - East Cowes (via Red Funnel car ferry) Anytime Return with YNG: £11.10 On Red Funnel website Southampton - East Cowes (via Red Funnel car ferry) Standard Period Return: £25.00 I can't help but feel I'm...

Hi all, I'm heading back home to Bristol on Saturday and need to go from Great Yarmouth to London. I was looking at the routeing guide and I'm unsure of whether I can avoid the rail-replacement bus on the Great Eastern Mainline and take the train from Norwich - Peterborough - KGX If it...

I just thought I'd do a shameless plug but I work as the deputy manager of an Oxfam Bookshop in Bristol and one of the other branches in the city just had a huge donation of about 900 railway books on pretty much every subject that are available to peruse and purchase. They're located on...

I'm sat on the train right now so a quick answer would be super. I have an AP ticket Great Yarmouth - Bristol Temple Meads. I'm booked onto the 1300 Norwich - LST but only as far as Stratford. Can I stay on to LST and count it as part of my cross-London transfer to Paddington?

I'm so glad I don't commute anywhere along the GEML. About a third of the time I'm in Norwich station there's delays of one sort or another between there and London and there's a perpetually grumpy group of commuters who sit on the 1936 with me who commute from London on the 1730 who always have...

Pretty irritated to be honest. The ever-reliable NXEA have replaced the train on which I commute every morning with a bus because they've "run out of trains". Or at least trains that work. http://www.itv.com/anglia/rail-misery60494/ Any ideas what exactly happened?

Figured I'd make a thread of these Sporcle Quizes. If you've got one please add it. The first one I've done is the name of the original ToCs as listed in the 'ABC National Railways; A Guide to the Privatised Railway' published in 1996. http://www.sporcle.com/games/Norfolkadam/90s_franchises...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/walsall1955/4555350066/ The photo in question. Taken in 2002 at Norwich station. On the arrivals board there's a very late running 1458 arrival from Shrewsbury. Huh? Any ideas what this could be?

I've had a little book ever since I was a kid called "National Railways - A Guide to the Privatised Railways" that was published around 95/96 and I was just reading about the "InterCity Cross Country" routes and it says this: Now maybe I've just been a bit dense but that's the first I've...

Mystery solved. I don't know how to delete a thread.

Ok so I can't remember the exact way this works but .. On the NXEA ticket machines at Norwich and Great Yarmouth there's a great deal of useless confusion about what tickets do what. If you want to buy and Off-Peak Day Return to Norwich from Great Yarmouth (which I'm guessing most people...

I've got a rail warrant to travel to London on the 2nd of September and I just wondered:- Do I go to the ticket office to swap it for a ticket or does the guard do that like a 'Permit to Travel' or is it already a ticket? It says "Warrant Expires 4/9/10" but it's for an Off Peak Return so...

I got an email this morning saying I had got on an assessment day for Southern for a role as a Customer Host at London Victoria. I'm so excited, I've wanted to work on the railways for ages and this is the first solid chance I've had. I've looked at the assessment tests (the ticket sales on...

Just a very quick question. How much are the sleeper supplement on top of an ALR? I was thinking about doing a trip around Britain where every night I end up on a sleeper or back at home in Norfolk. So I'd wake up in Aberdeen, travel around Scotland then get back to Glasgow in time to catch...

What does this actually mean? Sometimes when applying for railway jobs I see a lot of stuff about safety critical and I'm not sure if it applies. Do you have to be 'safety critical' if you're a customer 'host', ticket office staff, conductor or station assistant? If you're overweight does...

Ok so I really need a job and I look on the NXEA website thinking "Oh yeah, dream on" but there it is, my dream job (sad dream I know) being a conductor. I'm only 18 and it's a trainee programme so I'm very excited. I really hope I get past the first stage of the recruitment process. The...

So I've asked at the ticket office and looked online and there are no Advance fares for travel between London and Great Yarmouth (ap Ipswich) on Sunday 23rd May. I know there's engineering works going on so I expect that's connected but does this mean there won't be any full-stop or that they...

So I've been fiddling with Avantix and this is what I got with a Y-P railcard: -------------------------- London Terminals - Leeds Super Off-Peak Return £55.25 Total = £55.25 -------------------------- London Terminals - Peterborough EC Off-Peak Return £17.15 Peterborough -...