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Thank you for your reply. With the amount of improvements happening all around the country right now, your answer makes a lot of sense. There must be some seriously overworked people in Network Rail offices right now. I notice with the Highland Chieftain, it does conflict with an Edinburgh to...

As frustrating as that must be, I think that's more than reasonable what they are offering as a way of compensation/apology.

In two weeks time, electrification works will be closing a section of line around Dunblane in Scotland. I started a thread about this in the ticketing section as it left me with an issue with some advance tickets that I had, which (i hope!) have now been resolved, but it has left me interested...

There does seem to be a few instances of engineering works being announced to the public after advance tickets have been released, as I have found recently with Scotrail. In fact, there's 2 weeks to go until the blockade around Stirling, sleeper tickets to stations in the middle of the blockade...

I quite like what Eurostar does with it's mobile ticketing which still gives you the option of printing at St Pancras if you need to. Doesn't work at Gare de Nord as it prints a ticket without the barcode on the SNCF ticket machines, so there's no way of getting through the ticket barriers. Had...

Only three weeks now until the week long blockade between Larbert and Dunblane and the communication for passengers is still quite concerning. Scotrail seem on top of it now to be fair but nothing mentioned on other websites. Scotrail, as mentioned previously in this thread, have now...

A bit worrying to see Caledonian Sleeper still selling direct London to Stirling tickets for the week 15th-19th October when there's a blockade on through Stirling that week. Hopefully there won't be too many passengers messed around.

When I was at Corrour earlier this year, I was surprised to find one of these in the shelter there. It helpfully told me what buses went from the station and other onward travel links!

Still nothing on the timetables about the Caledonian Sleeper and the Highland Chieftain. Both still showing as routed through Stirling that week, and stopping at the stations through the closed section. Although I see on Real Train times that their pathing is shown on the diversion route on the...

Thank you. This is a train journey I've been wanting to do for a while (to Inverness along the east coast on the Highland Chieftain in 1st class and back down to London via the West Coast in 1st class, using Scotrail to connect from Inverness to Glasgow) and thought as I was turning 40 next...

I see. Thank you very much. So only enough capacity to get the London services alongside the regular Inverness to Edinburgh services through on a weekday then I assume. It's going to be an interesting journey on the Highland Chieftain. I assume this diversion will cause some delay. I now have...

I don't know the railways too well around there. It's looking like the Caledonian Sleeper and the Highland Chieftain are being diverted (hope so anyway!), but is there a reason other services can't be. Are there some single track sections in the area which makes it difficult to arrange?

Can't be bothered with this. Cancelled my Inverness to Glasgow ticket (no admin charge) and noticed there are still some cheap first class tickets left on the Highland Chieftain to Haymarket, so got them instead. It is for my 40th birthday trip, it's meant to be a treat, it eliminates the...

Don't think Scotrail are going to budge on this. Been told I'll have to change or cancel my ticket for a £10 admin fee if I don't want to get the bus and travel via Haymarket. So much for planning ahead ay?

I'm hoping Scotrail will let me stay on the Edinburgh train, change at Haymarket and go onto Queen Street from there on my advance ticket. It is a valid route but not sure if my advance will allow me to do it. If they say no, me and my wife are thinking it may be worth the extra £22.60 anytime...

Absolutely have no problem with that. Any improvement to the railway is a good thing. The problem is them announcing it after advance ticketing had opened. Something has gone wrong there. But there you go, it is what it is now and like you say, the long term benefits will be helpful.

When I grew up in Lowestoft, there were several ideas mooted to push the town's station further up the line. One idea was by a few hundred yards so that the road system around Station Square could be improved. Another was to put a new terminus beyond the docks near Normanston Park to allow for a...

It's made a bit of a mess of a journey I had carefully planned for that week with advance tickets I bought back in July. Maybe during the works, something unforeseen has happened which has required this short notice closure? I hope that's what it is because it's pretty poor otherwise.

Must be frustrating if that's a regular commute for you. I know need to contact Scotrail, see if they will let me divert around Edinburgh on my Inverness to Glasgow advance ticket instead of getting the replacement bus, contact Virgin Trains and get permission to use a later train to London...

Indeed, updates to the timetable are now being sorted. Journey planners are now showing the bus replacement too. Just need to await information on the Highland Chieftain now. I'm going to ask if I am allowed to travel via Edinburgh on my advance ticket as I bought it before all of this was...