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    Under 16s can't travel alone - Caledonian Sleeper

    Age discrimination laws do not apply to under 18s.
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    Cross country - 85% train reserved seating but train 5% full

    I've booked an advance cross country ticket on the way to the station before now, it appears others did the same thing as not all our reservations were showing, however the guard moved people around based on their reservation tickets even though the seats myself and others in the coach had...
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    Stoke-on-Trent to Windsor

    I have booked two advance singles The outbound is 1450 Virgin to Euston then via Paddington and Slough to central station. The return takes me from Riverside via Vauxhall then tube to Euston returning on the 2140 to Stoke. Given that only the Virgin trains have specified seats am I...
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    Class 155, what lines do they work?

    I see them in multiple with either another 155 or with a 153 at Leeds station - haven't noticed what lines they do
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    Trivia: One way only services?

    Yes I think it ran as far as Lincoln but was only advertised to Dodworth as anyone wishing to travel further could catch a more direct train.
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    Crewe to Alsager single line section

    It ran from Skegness to Manchester Airport, then was shortened from Nottingham, now just Derby to Crewe
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    1923 Euston - Birmingham Drag

    Why does it lose so much time? How fast can these go?
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    Parliamentary services and stations in next Northern Franchise

    Apparently you can use the phone at Longport to request the Northern trains stop.
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    Parliamentary services and stations in next Northern Franchise

    I think this is the only train per day that runs through stoke without stopping, apart from WCML diversions through Alsager, however these usually stop at Stoke too. (Giving Stoke additional connections). Freight traffic will not be travelling fast enough for the straightening of lines at...
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    The Stockport-Stalybridge Parliamentary

    Yes the Halton Curve runs once per week in one direction also - but only in summer therefore there's approx 9 months between services at one point in the year
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    Northern Customer Information System Improvment - 100 stations?

    Perhaps they'll put them in places like Teesside airport, Denton and Reddish South?! Unlikely but not implausible as grants tend to be spent quite ridiculously at times! (PTE areas also tend to have rules of their own!)
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    Trivia: Stations with only one platform on double track lines?

    Norton bridge ? It is surrounded by about 8 tracks,
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    Railcard terms and conditions

    Disabled persons railcard has no photo either
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    Cascade of DMUs to CURRENT TPE franchise

    I know voyagers get a bad press, but for anyone who has used the North Transpennine route they would be an absolute dream on there !!
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    Parliamentary services and stations in next Northern Franchise

    The site of Etruria is where Stoke on Trent city council proposed HS2 would stop in their bid against Crewe. We may well have seen Etruria reopening on a much grander scale had it been successful.
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    Parliamentary services and stations in next Northern Franchise

    The (twice) realignment of track at Etruria increased lindspeed from 60-85mph,which is apparently irrelevant on the down as trains are already slowing down for stoke at Etruria
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    Stoke-on-Trent to Leeds

    Ok so whereas buying separate off peak stoke to Manc and Manc to Leeds tickets is cheaper than the through off peak, you're saying at peak times it's cheaper to buy a through off peak Stoke to Leeds?
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    Stoke-on-Trent to Leeds

    I'm travelling from Stoke to Leeds on Monday morning around 715/30, normally I'd make this journey off peak and buy two off peak returns, splitting at Manchester. The early journey means I'd have to buy two anytime returns. The trainline is offering a direct ticket Stoke to Leeds as an off peak...
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    Parliamentary services and stations in next Northern Franchise

    Etruria had already had the track realigned insofar as only certain classes of train had been able to stop. There were originally objections to its closure which led to it staying open longer. First North Western ran a daily morning service to Manchester at around 0727 which was beyond what was...

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