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Hi anyone else done this trip? Looking at going beginning of Oct 23 undecided whether to go from NY or Chicago

We were treated like mushrooms in the pandemic told to come in to work everyday and not to worry just wash you hands every now and then whilst manning the gates making sure other key workers had to pay to go to work while our managers communicated with us via email while in their gardens having...

Cheers mate just seen the vid :D I've been looking and it seems to be about £150 for the 2 of us one way in the same cabin you stayed in and much like our country avoid the weekends due to engineering work, we are going to stay in Cefalu

Hi All Anyone done this trip please on the sleeper looking for tips and prices do we get staff discount? Cheers

Anyone know of priv prices for single sleepers x2 return London - Fort William? Thanks

What a load of nonsense that twitter feed was... I was at Winchester Station and seen the man jump he actually jumped before the train got to him if that makes sense and the train was stopping at Winchester so doing maybe 20-30 mph the train just knocked him down so no horrible mess and no mass...

Just on a side note SWR HR are awful take everything they say with a shovel full of salt.

Basic Maths, English Timetable reading (train goes from A to B how long does it take....etc) pick up a train table from somewhere and get used to reading it, looking at it and understanding it. Set of numbers & letters will be played to you on an audio for example AM9BEM63HDR249F and you will...

Hi, from what I can see your asking about is a pass is a pass, the assessment is all pretty general Maths,English...they will also ask you about train timetables how long does a train take to get from A to B to C....etc then you will be called in for an interview at the interview you will be...

Thank you all for your replies was hoping on doing this March 2021 now looking less and less likely

Cheers looks like you are exactly the kind of person I need to talk to. We done the garden route last time by car from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth and back with the odd detour on the way back. Basically we want to do the Cape Town to Jo'burg on the premier classe train just one way either way it...

Went to SA 2 years ago and hoping to return next year and going to do a bit of train travel out there anyone else done this? Was looking at going from Cape Town to Johannesburg then down to Durban for a visit to Rokes drift and then end up at Victoria Falls (via plane) or vice versa open to...

Exactly this

Hi Folks As it says on the tin me and the missus going in December for a long weekend anyone done this via FIP/coupons. I apologise I have never used these things before so looking at what discounts/prices I/we get (only worked on the railway for about 20yrs) :rolleyes:

Thanks Hadders I will look into that

Hi All Looking at doing a couple of days of sight seeing stay in b&b's the further away from towns and cities the better anybody got any good suggestions ? places to see do? we can go free Virgin East Coast from London (return) and then use out ATOC passes in Scotland

Just facts my friend

SWT are very poor with pay compared to other TOCS seeing as the majority of their network is in the most expensive part of the UK,its widely known that they are totally understaffed due to big cut backs a few years ago but are trying to get jobs back at stations but are still using agency staff...

Looking at doing this by train for the Euros in June with my FIP card and discount but don't know how to go about it any info please?

Thanks Jonny I will have a read of this later on this evening and maybe bend you ear a bit about it when I have. Dos's & Dont's if you done it again?