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My thinking here is that The Hydro isn't a Glasgow venue, it's a national venue which happens to be in Glasgow. At present, getting there by rail means either: Exhibition Centre, which whenever there's an event on is maxed out to the point of people having to queue on the street, and which...

Yeah, I'd thought about Cambus (and Clackmannan, and Causewayhead) but not included it as I thought it was my bias as someone who grew up in Clackmannanshire :-)

I hadn't thought of, or heard of Balgray, which is why I didn't include it (and when I looked at a list of towns by population, it's grouped in with Bellshill, which already has a station Winchburgh for some reason I thought was done already. You've made me think: combining your list and mine...

If you could open 10 stations in Scotland, where would they be? I'll have a go: Not requiring new track be built: Finnieston, Glasgow - re-opening on an existing passenger line "Stirling Parkway" - on or near the old Bannockburn station on an existing passenger line Grangemouth - addition of...

Haymarket platform 0 (IIRC it was built to allow some trains from the North/West to terminate there while the lines between Haymarket and Waverley to be wired - now this has been done no trains from the North/West terminate at Haymarket) Stirling Platforms 7 & 8 (I believe they're each used for...

I ended up going to the Curly Coo, it was very pleasant indeed - decent local beer (Harviestoun and Williams Bros), a massive whisky selection, and books to read.

Sorry, I meant I was in London on Monday (i.e. catching the sleeper Sunday night)

Thanks all, looks like it'll be a long connection (probably involving a pint or two) at Stirling then

Hi, on Monday, I'm travelling to London on the Caledonian Sleeper, in the seated carriage. There was no availability from Edinburgh, so I'm booked from Stirling. This would be fine if I could get the train from Edinburgh at 22:35, to arrive to Stirling at 23:33 (or maybe the previous one to be...

If I use public wi-fi, it's because I have no mobile signal in that location (or this was previously the case, and I've not disconnected, or maybe even automatically reconnected after a previous visit) and nothing to do with not having sufficient data allowance. I'd guess I'm far from alone in...

It depends what is meant by "dating apps". There are apps which exist for the purpose of finding a partner for a casual sex, but are euphemistically referred to as "dating apps" by their users and owners. Probably the best known is example is Tinder - AFAIK no-one uses it to find someone to go...

100% this. It's compensation for the time lost. If the time belongs to the employer ('cos they're paying for it) then they're the ones who should get the compensation, if they're not then the employee should.

Doesn't that mean there's more or a case, rather than less? The area will badly need regeneration, which a new rail service could help.

In the ~5 years I did Edinburgh-London every week, I'd guess I averaged two >1hr delays per year. On a couple of those occasions, after it had all gone wrong our very delayed train was held while the following (far less delayed) train go past. I wondered at the time if it was because we were...

LNER are within scope of FOI, aren't they? So you could submit a request for this. There are exceptions for commercially-sensitive data though so may want to word the request to say that if they can't give you the raw data to give you something which gives useful info without being sensitive.

I would've thought the opposite. it would mean that the impact of the time being mis-measured by 1 minute would only be 1.5% of ticket value, not up to 50% of it. So it could significantly reduce the stakes in any dispute - people (from either the customer or TOC side) aren't going to argue...

These comments in a thread about a disputed arrival time for delay repay Have reminded me of something I've long believed: Delay repay should be a sliding scale rather than with big jumps. So instead of being: 25% for delays over 15 mins (certain TOCs only) 50% for delays over 30 mins 100%...

Thanks both! @30907 thanks for pointing out the gotchas re group tickets & advances. I don't think they'd have been the best tickets for us anyway, but thanks for highlighting.

Hi, a group of us are going for a night away to Aviemore in a few weeks' time. There's a possibility we'll want to stop off on the way back for a pub lunch and a few pints. The obvious option for this would be Perth, but I was wondering our tickets would be valid to travel via...

Ah, I think I'd underestimated cost by a factor of about 100! At that kind of price, I doubt it'd be worth it.