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Does anyone recall the coach operators that used to run overnight coach services from around London Russell Square/Southampton Row in the 1980s/1990s to I think the north east and Scotland. They had a check in office on Southampton Row near the Bedford Hotel. Any idea when the services stopped...

For the London Olympics, event ticket holders could buy tickets well in advance - this does not seem to apply for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games. Will advance rail tickets just become available 12 weeks in advance as normal? Will there be any additional long distance rail servies provided?

Network Rail recently published an interesting document Long Term Planning Process: Regional Urban Market Study. This provides an overview of the commuter market into each of the major English cities excluding London on each regional rail line. It shows for each line the number of trips from...

Is there a list anywhere of TfL annual travelcard prices for the 1980s and 1990s? Interested in zones 1-2 and 1-3. thanks

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I was looking at the Essex Thameside and Thameslink franchising documents recently published by DfT which show the minimum service requirement including first and last trains. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/245068/a-train-service-requirement.pdf and...

Does anyone know which routes generate the greatest revenue but have no or very limited direct services. Given the interest in operating them I presume London to Shrewsbury and Blackpool are two of the best earners. But I would imagine other high earning routes include London to Harrogate...

I have recently travelled on airport to city centre trains in Rome, Oslo and Kuala Lumpa. All were fast, clean, suitably expensive, reasonably easy to understand but all have different ticketing systems and were not very well used. Interestingly in Rome and Oslo children travelled free making...

Travelled from Rome to Pompeii by train. High speed rail from Rome to Naples easily booked on line in UK - just show print out to onboard ticket inspector. Train very comfortable and spacious - €38 return. Busy going down around 9am and empty on return around 7pm. From Naples local train to...

Looking at buying 1 adult and 2 child single tickets from London Bridge to Gatwick for Saturday. National Rail journey planner shows lowest price as being £12.40 - £10.40 adult and £1 each per child. Click through to FCC website and this ticket does not appear - the cheapest being £19.80...

Anyone know if it is possible to travel from Rome Fiumicino airport on the local service into Rome and change on to the metro using the one 8 euro ticket or do you have to buy another metro ticket. Its not clear on the web when it says the ticket is valid to any rail station within Rome if that...

Yesterday I traveled from Vauxhall (London) to Wool and went to buy a day return ticket from the TVM and was taken aback when it quoted a fare in excess of £100 - having previously looked on-line I was expecting a fare around half of that. So I went to the ticket office and brought the same...

Are there any proposals to allow Oyster cards to be used on services to Stratford International - if necessary with a premium charge? And on Crossrail will premium fares still be charged to Heathrow and will these be possible using Oyster's replacement by then?

The Essex Thameside franchise is up for being relet this year. Given the excellent work National Express has done with C2C over the past few years what further improvements could realistically be delivered on this line or it will it just be carry on as it is now for the next 15 years?

Does anyone know how much electricity an escalator will consume per hour - I presume it will vary by use and length of escalator so some sort of average is fine. How does this compare with the amount of electricity required to move a lift over the same height difference?

I recall seeing a breakdown showing tickets sold by ticket office, TVM, internet etc but cant track it down - anyone know the answer or where I can find it? thanks

According to National Rail website today's 08.28 Penzance to Glasgow was terminated at Leeds? due to "This train has been cancelled because of an unusually large passenger flow" what does this really mean It seems to reappear as a later train from Leeds - 16.23 instead of being the 16.08...

Fast on the news that you can travel faster than the speed of light- London Midland takes up the challenge According to National Rail enquiries its service departs Watford Junc 16.33 arrives Euston 16.33.

Fast on the news that you can travel faster than the speed of light- London Midland takes up the challenge According to National Rail enquiries its service departs Watford Junc 16.33 arrives Euston 16.33.

Has anyone got a link to the layout of the former Manchester Exchange Station? I understand it had 2 bay platforms and 3 through platforms - but I cant understand how the through platforms worked in relation to Man Vic platform 11 which linked the two stations. Was the layout platforms 1&2...