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I did similar when we made a return trip from Edinburgh-London with our son when he was about 9 months. As there were 2 adults travelling, we'd have been marginally cheaper without getting him a ticket as we could've bought & used a Two Together railcard (pay 2/3 of adult fares and £0 for him)...

But it adds the anomaly that a fare-paying passenger could expect to be given a seat by a child (because of the page on the NR website I liked to in my first post) but the child (or their parent) has no requirement to do so, because it's not in the NRCoT.

So does that mean there's no longer a requirement for the child to give up their seat if required by a fare-paying passenger, despite what the information page on the NR website says?

The "Train Travel with Children" page on the National Rail website says that: (bolding is mine, not theirs) This seems reasonable, but I can't find any reference to the bit that I've bolded in the National Rail Conditions of Travel, and as I understand it it's the NRCoT that forms part of the...

True, I'd perhaps been guilty of extrapolating too much from where I live (Danderhall gets 3 buses / hour to city centre, Shawfair gets 2 trains/hour) For Slateford, I'd guess there's maybe 15 mins out of every hour where the journey time including waiting would be less by train than by bus...

This change will make the train a lot more competitive with buses for people in/near to cities. For example, there's now 7 stations where a return fares to Edinburgh Waverley (below) costs less than the £4.40 cost of two journeys on Lothian Buses: South Gyle £3.80 Slateford £3.80 Kingsnowe...

But the OP has said that this is for a fictional story. I have no idea what the OP is writing, but imagine for a second that in this story, the signaller's family are being held at gunpoint to force him to deliberately cause a collision. That's rather unlikely in real life, but wouldn't be out...

To be fair, speed is a fairly significant part of encouraging public transport use! I hope they build this, because it's better than nothing, but I must say that it feels rather unambitious having a tram which mainly runs on-street as our main metro system.

Oh, I didn't know this. I've used it before, but hadn't realised it had that feature

Hi, I was looking to book the 17:19 from Milton Keynes Central to Edinburgh on Tue 15 Jul. This results in getting in to Edinburgh on the same train as catching the 17:24 would, but involves one less change. The National Rail Enquiries website showed me the 17:19 option, and gave me a link to...

Thanks. So when I said That was in effect a large part of the reason :D

When the Waverley Line was re-opened as the Borders Railway, it mostly followed the original route. An exception to that is around where the new Shawfair station has been built. Now this suits me quite well personally, as Shawfair station is a shorter walk from my house than Millerhill...

I've no legal expertise, but I wonder if it comes down to whether the trainline is merely a third-party retailer in this case. Is there a difference between: buying a mobile phone (/ shampoo / child's toy) from a shop who have bought it from the manufacturer buying a concert ticket (/ airline...

Thanks all, I hadn't realised I'd be able to actually reserve it a seat on the 05:40. I've done that now.

Great, thanks. And agree that this doesn't feel all that "simple". One follow-up Q: do you know if there's an unreserved standard-class coach on LNER (seeing as I'll be travelling on a service I've no reservation for)?

Hi, I need to travel from Edinburgh to London soon, on either the 05:40 LNER service, or the Caledonian Sleeper the night before. The price of the 05:40 has increased from £88ish when I was looking on Friday to £163.10 today... ...but there's a "semi-flexible" fare on the 05:48 for £108, which...

What does NR stand for? If it's National Rail (i.e. any station on the normal rail network, as opposed to London Underground, DLR, etc, etc) then Reston. But it could stand for Northern Rail or something else

Or, even better, they'll fix this:

I was thinking the new station would go somewhere like this: Blue = new station Lime green = footbridge replacing pedestrian-only level crossing Red/yellow arrow = level crossing. If the platforms were 200m long, then this level crossing would be 380m from the northern end of the platform

But surely that's something that can be changed (and relatively cheaply, when compared to the cost of building new lines which some of the other suggestions would require)?