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I recently travelled from London to Astana (aka "Nur-Sultan") in Kazakhstan by train. I visit Kazakhstan every year as it's where my other half is originally from - this time I was able to find a combination of rail tickets that was of comparable cost to a plane ticket, but due to work...

I've recently been purchasing tickets on pass.rzd.ru (the official website from Russian Railways) for a journey between London and Kazakhstan. I was amused to see souvenirs are offered for purchase when finalising your journey booking - presumably the items are passed to you by the provodnik...

Eurostar regularly sell Paris metro carnets from the onboard buffet/shop on their trains. Since they started running services to Amsterdam have they started selling GVB (tram/bus/metro) passes on those services too? If so, which of the 24/48/72/96 hour passes do they sell?

My parents are travelling on Eurostar next week. They hold Senior Railcards and I'm intending to purchase tickets to London International CIV for them - EURO STD RETURN tickets such as those shown below: http://www.brfares.com/#faredetail?orig=HLN&dest=LNE&rlc=SRN&rte=1000&tkt=EOR Their...

This Sunday there's a two-hourly service with a bus replacement from Woodbridge to Ipswich. Strangely the service which connects with the 11:30 bus from Woodbridge is not shown as a connection north of Woodbridge. It looks like this is because the connection is timetabled at 4 mins while the...

This weekend buses replace trains north of Ipswich. For the operating trains between Ipswich and Liverpool Street are some of these due to be operated by "Intercity" hauled sets? It looks like the buses from Norwich connect with the xx:43 from Ipswich on both Saturday and Sunday so possibly...

I received an email from TfL this morning stating that the recent timetable change has brought (half hourly) Sunday services to Acton Mainline and West Ealing. Previously there had been no service for these stations as they only have platforms on the relief/slow lines, while engineering work on...

I recently updated a map I maintain, showing high speed lines in China: https://goo.gl/RnxEWp Most openings in China occur in the last days of December each year - this year was no different with several new lines opening: China adds 2254km to its rail network as nine new lines open

I'm travelling to Chester from London tomorrow at short notice. My parents are also travelling to Chester, getting on my train at Milton Keynes. I'm buying all the tickets today, intending to use virgintrains.co.uk so I can easily seat us together (I'll use two separate transactions and then...

An American has a regular English language program on Kazakh TV. This month the programme has taken Kazakh Railways as its topic. It gives a pretty good idea of travelling by train in Kazakhstan (and to some degree, most post-USSR countries).

I'm travelling up to the North West this weekend (Saturday 22nd & Sunday 23rd December). I'm planning to travel to Hartford on the Saturday and back from either Chester or Frodsham on Sunday. I know roughly what times I'll travel, but I'd prefer to have the flexibility of a Off-Peak Return...

I noticed recently that Antalya (Turkey) has a tram system (or rather two systems - one modern and one heritage, which do not have a railed connection). However, Antalya does not have a mainline railway station (and as far as I know, has never been connected to a mainline railway). I think this...

One for the dreamers (myself included)! Having said that, if the costs of the Moscow-Beijing services (Trans-Mongolian and Trans-Manchurian) can be subsidised by China and Russia for decades for the sake of diplomacy, then who knows what's possible. Increasing the route length by a modest...

I just passed through Crewe a few minutes ago and saw an EMT Meridian standing on the east side of the station (platform 2 or 3?). This seems quite unusual. Would it be a train in passenger service or some kind of maintenance move?

There hasn't been much information available on testing of the Crossrail core. I thought I'd start a thread so it would be easier to keep track of progress... With services in the core due to run in 6 months time (December 20192018) there isn't much time remaining to test all the stations...

Turksib - a classic film from 1929, documenting the building of the Turkestan–Siberia Railway is being shown in London today, 22nd May. The showing is at 19:00 in Central Hall, Westminster. Tickets cost £15 and are available here...

When I search for an itinerary on National Rail Enquires from Cambridge to Stowmarket I'm shown the need to buy two tickets if I take a service which requires a change in Ely. On Sundays it seems there is a direct service every other hour, with a service changing at Ely in the hours where a...

I'm travelling up to the Chester/Frodsham area this Friday, returning the following day (Saturday). My ultimate destination is a village that can be reached from Chester/Mouldsworth/Frodsham/Runcorn (at a push). I like being able to change my plans and catch a slightly earlier/later train, so I...

I'm planning to go up to Suffolk for the weekend, from Friday evening to Sunday. I've noticed there is bus replacement between Colchester-Witham that I'd like to avoid when I come back on Sunday. Are Darsham-London tickets valid via Lowestoft/Norwich/Cambridge? I realise I could also go via...

I'm going from London to the Frodsham/Chester area this weekend (7th / 8th October). My main options from Euston are: xx:10 to Chester xx:30 to Warrington (Glasgow service), change to Frodsham/N Wales service xx:40 to Crewe (Manchester service), change to Chester service Given the xx:07...