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Seat 61 reports that you can now use Interrail and Eurail on Ouigo services, just pay for reservations.
Top of the July news page
https://www.seat61.com/news.htm
And on the Ouigo page at
https://www.seat61.com/interrail-and-eurail-reservations.htm#France
I've linesided at Sliedrecht. Quite enjoyed it, a few viewpoints, strong sun can be challenging as there's a path/road on the N side of the line. I had some photos up on another forum but they don't show up any more.
Was that in fact yesterday (7th)? as in this one:
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:R51869/2026-07-07/detailed
I can see a return working,
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:H00537/2026-07-09/detailed
Similar slow loading here, maybe 15 secs or more for a page to load, and it's normally pretty much instantaneous. Yesterday had some much longer load times. Other sites are fine. railforums.co.uk cache/cookies cleared, no difference. ios/Safari on two different devices, same slowness.
Better northbound, with the 1102 from London scheduled for 119 mins:
https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:W70967/2026-07-06/detailed#allox_id=0
and 2 hrs dead for the 1802 from London.
The site dedicated to movable bridges has a search facility, but not apparently by what goes over the bridge.
https://movablebridges.org.uk/Default.asp
Are you including lifting bridges as well as swing and sliding ones? The King George V Bridge, the big one over the Trent at Althorpe (near Keadby), used to lift, but is now fixed. It also carries the A18 road.
Spent a few too many minutes searching online for photos of cartics in Motorail service, and found very few. Kind of surprising.
Meanwhile there’s a great selection of scanned Motorail brochures including routes and timetables at Andy Gibbs’ site:
https://andygibbs.zenfolio.com/f56164866
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