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As we know, most planned enhancements for the December 2020 Timetable have been deferred or cancelled. This thread is to discuss news and plans as they're announced for what will form the permanent basis. This is expected to roll over many things from the May 2020 base timetable. Minor tweaks...

In the past hour, scores of tweets from high-profile accounts, including Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Joe Biden have tweeted scams asking for bitcoin payments, taking potentially tens of thousands of dollars in payment in minutes: https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/15/twitter-accounts-hacked-crypto-scam/

One thing which does not quite seem to have registered everywhere just yet is the impact of Covid-19 on the OpEx of the railway. For the moment, of course this was not an immediete concern. In March the Department for Transport managed to get agreements out to the fourteen contractors they...

Covid-19 is likely to result in a reorganisation of timetables, and there is likely to be some retrenchment. At present, nobody wants to admit this because we're still in 'emergency mode' and because it would be bad politics, but the reality is that there will be either a greater or lesser...

Mod Note: Posts #1 - #6 originally in this thread. Therefore, if we're bringing this up: it's also reasonable to suggest that because significant taxpayers money goes into the railway industry there should be a measure of oversight, though clearly not so much, into the staff costs and...

http://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/article.cfm?id=133060&headline=%27Scrap%20the%20Senedd%27%20-%20English%20MP%20hits%20out%20over%20differing%20lockdown%20rules&sectionIs=news&searchyear=2020 An interesting take from an MP in England, which is that the difference in Welsh and English rules means...

One thing nobody who actually cared about people would do would be to just pick up "mental health" as a reason for wanting restrictions to be reduced. The fact is that healthcare for the causes of suicide are very poor in this country. Some people are able to access literally no support...

Austrian Open Access Operator Westbahn have been awarded a contract by the Austrian government to run for an initial three month period. There is to be broadly a two-hourly service overlaid with the Federal Railway services (OBB). Westbahn must call at additional stations specified, and accept...

Moderator Note: Split from this thread: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/stones-conservative-mp-sir-bill-cash-wants-hs2-to-be-cancelled-to-benefit-the-health-service.203113/ I'm pretty sure that you've just made this up.

LNER are currently heavily, pushing to me on Facebook, and possibly elsewhere, a 40% discount on tickets: Unfortunately, quite a lot of people have commented on the public post, tagging others or complaining that the discount doesn't work. I can't get the discount from clicking through. This...

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2020/feb/19/eurostar-delay-security-missed-connection It's clear that the customers had two tickets, the first from London to Brussels and another from Brussels to Cologne. It is unclear who the retailer of the tickets was, but of course, the Eurostar website...

Hi Is it actually possible to book these tickets from any stations apart from Belfast Lanyon Place, Portadown and Newry? I note that they are all in the data for the most part for journeys via Holyhead and Dublin Conolly on Irish Ferries or Stena Line and then IE, but there appears to be no...

Good evening all I've been in contact with Transdev in York but unfortunately I've had no response. I've got nowhere using their website for the Coastliner. Is anyone able to advise please with regards to single prices on route 840 from York Rail Station to Whitby? If there is a group discount...

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/first-of-a-kind-2020-launches-to-find-this-centurys-brunel

I have been asked by some family friends who seem to have 3 Crewe to Stockport Off Peak Day Return TFW RS ONLY tickets for help with their journey home. The three tickets are contained within one of their Trainline apps. They aren't willing to wait until the 1839 service and want to take the...

Travelling from Liverpool to Manchester this afternoon on TransPennine Express, I asked the host for a hot chocolate when she came through the train. I was told that as this is a new type of train (one of the locomotive hauled sets), they no longer serve hot drinks to passengers in Standard. I...

I wanted to comment briefly on the phenomenon of trains running on highly congested routes with large numbers of empty seats on them. I don't wish to pick on another user, but I thought that this comment in a recent thread deserved a little expansion: In many cases this is certainly already...

I recently opted for an e-ticket as an experiment, on the back of information from this website and a number of other sources, about how versatile, flexible, and easy to use they are. I bought a TransPennine Express Only Advance ticket from their website (the only place it was available from)...

Following the passage of the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) Act 2019 earlier this year, which set today (21 October 2019) as the deadline for the Northern Ireland Assembly to meet before its provisions came into effect, the Northern Ireland Secretary, Julian Smith, answered an Urgent...

I have just called the Caledonian Sleeper to ask to reserve a seat on my forthcoming journey from Crianlarich to Fort William. I have a Glasgow to Fort William Off Peak Day Return to use on my journey. I called because it says this on their website: https://www.sleeper.scot/tickets/seats/...