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Oh. It's not something I've done before, how much data would an hour on iPlayer consume, is there any way of knowing precisely or would it all depend on area, setting etc? Thank you again :)

Hi, I don't know where to put this but hopefully this is right. I want to know if the on train WiFi onboard TFW would cope with watching a programme (Final Score football) live on iPlayer (or at least a part of it) ? Thank you :)

Hello! This is my patch despite my name, I'm wondering when the 197s will appear on the main line, and if the remaining 175s will actually return or not, will they go straight to 197s? Does anyone know? Thank you :)

Most interesting - It’s probably because I travelled on it for leisure rather than commuting but I really like the Brighton Main Line, especially northbound. Lovely countryside through Sussex including the very underrated Ouse viaduct, lots of regular stations to mark progress, going right past...

My worry is how many of these border closures & restrictions in Central Europe are their more nationalistic governments taking a chance to do what they always wanted to do anyway - so how many of these really are temporary :(

Out of curiosity, what’s actually happened to the signalling system down there? Seems to be a pretty big problem. Come to think of it, what brought down such a huge length of wire on Saturday?!

It seems to me, a total outsider, as though the Ordsall Chord & the through links it enabled have caused massively more problems than it solved & should never have been built - too simplistic or is there more to Northern’s problems than WM-style too-long-routes?

I don’t really blame NR or anyone, I just wanted to know why these things happen - I especially never realised that the pantograph would act as a knife if the wire came low, I thought it’d be like running your finger along the bottom of a curtain - the curtain rising to match your height along...

So a train can’t be an initial cause (as I say, it should always be below), but if something else causes any bit of the wire to fall below where it should be (without any technical knowledge, I guess it getting too hot/cold can do that?) then when a train gets there...it’s oops time. Thank...

Hello, the event at York today has reminded me to ask a question I’ve wanted to ask for ages. I’m not involved in the railway, just an ordinary norm passenger but I’ve always been intrigued by the idea of trains pulling wires down from below. Can anyone explain in non-technical (norm) language...

As an ex-Cumbrian, 24 hours of heavy rain is what Cumbrians call ‘a fine spell’ :p It’s nothing the WCML doesn’t see several times each winter.

I really really hope the old story about the American couple turning up to Leeds (Yorkshire) station & asking directions to the castle (in Leeds, Kent) was true :p

Victory for common sense & people power :) Hopefully the reversal will lead to several high-up people behind this decision having their rear ends kicked very hard - the idea that the people behind this idiocy are about to set the future basis for all rail fare policy is frankly terrifying. After...

While not in any way defending the monumental, jaw-dropping stupidity & greed of this decision, it does sound like we Brits will still be able to buy & use the range of Interrail passes on the continent after next year, although sadly without the free trip to the border, which was obviously the...

Boris Johnson cares about getting votes. Given that he was seemingly ok with TfL taking on more territory for London Overground, plus he’d be aware of how unpopular the current franchise system is (& how popular the idea of public ownership is) among the public, not to mention the complete mess...

Bristol. Temple. Meads. Numbered to 15, but it’s only got 9 platforms even if you count the unused platform 2. Not to mention the disappearing number 14. I’m sure the numbering system is only there to make GWR think it’s bigger than it is :p

The greatest thing about that is that it takes nearly 4 hours. You could literally walk it quicker o_O

I’ve literally just checked that - & the right fare is now showing. I now know to check NRE a bit closer to the time for the full truth - that or just use RTT. Thanks again everyone :)

Thank you - I never even thought of using RTT :idea: The 10:52 to Manchester is shown as running as usual, even arriving 5 minutes earlier than the printed timetable says! It is marked with a VAR, but I assume that refers to it starting at Port Talbot Parkway rather than whatever part of...

On the flip side, the 10:52 train I was planning to get from Shrewsbury to Manchester should be pretty empty :D *if it runs... Edit: what is an ‘STP’ service mentioned earlier in the thread? Only STP I know is a certain Eurostar station...