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It's in the printed GBTT (yes, I know that's not infallible), and the pdf on the GWR website, and the timetable poster at the south entrance of Reading West station (I didn't check the main entrance), but when I tried to board it there today it wasn't on the dot-matrix boards, and it isn't in...

The NRE journey planner is showing XC trains to Bournemouth next Saturday taking longer than usual and omitting Winchester etc., and RTT confirms diversion via Laverstock; the XC website shows this as a late notice alteration. SWR services are still shown by NRE as running normally, and there's...

If you have a '[TOC] and connections' Advance ticket, and the train operated by the TOC in question is delayed so you miss the intended connecting train, does anyone know what the rules are about which train you can take instead? 1) If the missed connecting train is reservable, can you take the...

I presume all Weekend First schemes are TOC-specific, i.e. you can't buy a single upgrade covering travel on more than one TOC (if anyone knows differently, please say so). Are they also train-specific, or can they cover travel on more than one train of the same TOC? For example could...

I'm trying to buy a ticket from Didcot to Rosslare for this Friday, but so far without success. Loco2.com offers a SailRail standby ticket, but when I click 'add to basket' it says 'Sorry, we weren't able to confirm your booking.' Raileasy says 'no fares found' if I search for departure at...

I'm advising a friend in Ireland who hasn't used SailRail before, and I think is only an occasional user of public transport in general, but there are various things that I'm not sure about, so I thought I'd see what the collective wisdom of the forum had to say. Hopefully some of the points...

Thisafternoon stopping services between Didcot and Reading were being worked by turbo d.m.u.s running through from/to Oxford or Banbury. As far as I noticed, 387s seemed to be running in the normal timings east of Reading; changing from one to the other would, at least at the time I arrived at...

Does anyone have any experience of the overnight services at this gala? The maybe idealised image that I have in my mind is being able to replicate long-distance journeys of decades gone by by finding an empty compartment in which to lie down undisturbed while being trundled up and down the line...

I'm contemplating a visit to the USA, and wondering if anyone can help with the following: 1) If you travel in a roomette, how easy is it to see the view out of the other side of the train? In a European style sleeping compartment, or presumably an Amtrak bedroom, you can go and stand in the...

Thinking back to the 'End of Steam' thread from earlier this year, I was wondering when BR ceased to use steam-powered cranes. Does anyone know? There was certainly one at Stewarts Lane in the 1980s -- I remember seeing it in action 'for real' clearing up after a derailment* at Clapham Junction...

1) Is there any way to check what information the NRE journey planner provided about a time that is now in the past? (e.g. to see on a Sunday evening (or later) what you would have found if you'd searched on the Saturday -- or immediately before the train departed on the Sunday -- for a journey...

(This is of some relevance to ticketing, but I'm putting it under Infrastructure because barriers are part of infrastructure). Has anyone here come across card-only gates in ticket barriers? Are they intentional, or just a way of keeping partly failed gates in partial service? The other...

I want to make a Delay Repay claim for a recent journey, but I'm not familiar with the process, so I'm wondering if anyone can provide any advice. I reached my final station about 55 minutes late because the first train was cancelled; this was an XC train, as was the one an hour later that I...

It looks to me as if restriction Q8 applies to the whole journey of a train leaving one of the listed stations before the 'cut-off time', meaning that a ticket with this restriction would therefore not be valid on the 09.03 from Salisbury (cut-off time 08.50) to Bristol, because the train leaves...

If you have an Off-Peak Day Return (CDR) for a particular route, and want a change of route excess in order to return by a different route for which there is no CDR and for which the cheapest walk-up fare is a Super Off-Peak (SSR), can you do that as a simple change of route excess as described...

NRE is showing the £38 Super offpeak return from Surbiton to Kidderminster via High Wycombe as being valid at any time (at least in the morning) next week, whereas http://www.brfares.com/#faredetail?orig=SUR&dest=KID&rte=363&ldn=1&tkt=OPR doesn't appear to indicate any relaxation in the time...

The Chiltern Railways website says that there will be an amended Sunday service on Monday December 28th, an amended Saturday service on the 29th and 30th, just an 'amended service' on the 31st, and an amended Sunday service on January 1st. Does anyone know if it is likely that the loco-hauled...

A week ago (Sunday 15th November) I happened to be within sight of the railway about half a mile on the country side of Surbiton station, and saw a freight train travelling away from London. I can't remember the exact time, but it was approximately mid-afternoon. I didn't see the locomotive, but...

I'm planning a journey which will probably involve taking my bicycle on a Cambridge-King's Cross train on a Monday afternoon/evening. There are no specific restrictions on doing this, but I seem to remember reading in another thread about problems with too many people trying to take bikes on...

Seeing the picture in the 'Railway Magazine' of Tangmere standing on the junction at Wootton Basset after the infamous SPAD of 7th March made me wonder what the crew are expected to do in a situation like that. Obviously they inform the signalman immediately, but do they then rely on the...