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In September, I shall be travelling from home to Paignton via Paddington on a Saturday and return using SSR Super Off -Peak tickets. For the mainline GWR parts of the journeys I intend to travel on the 12:00 PAD to Newton Abbott and return on the 10:52 or 11:53 from Newton Abbott (both ex PNZ)...

Moderator note - split from: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/first-etcs-train-operates-on-the-east-coast-mainline.268889/ How is it that commercial aircraft fly with complex avionics, communication and navigation systems, irrespective of manufacturer, operating environments, political...

I would be grateful if anybody can help with: 1) What were the typical journey times from Liverpool St and (say) Fairlop via Ilford? 2) What sort of consists were trains in those periods? Thanks in anticipation.

I am intending to purchase two SVR returns from St Albans to Gatwick. Outbound travel will be evening time both ways but on separate days, but one person will be breaking the outbound journey at Blackfriars to travel to another Zone 1 station and back for a few hours using contactless for that...

If travelling on a return ticket with a London Terminal interchange where the journey into London is prohibited from arriving before 10:00, but there are no restrictions on the following train out to the destination, would it be permitted to start the journey at the London origin of the second...

I note that in today's news, there are reports of proposals to tighten laws for drivers: See here I have no issues with either of the proposed changes even though I am well into the mandatory eye test age group. I note that the AA's president Edmund King, suggests that the threshold for eye...

Starting from St Albans Abbey, I have a need to be in MK between 14:00 and 17:00 and then in central London from 19:00 until (say) 23:00. Would this be permitted?: on a DDR from St Albans Abbey to Euston (restriction PX), break the outbound journey at Watford Juction and travel on a CDR to MK...

My wife is caught up in delays south of the TL core - reports of fire at Farringdon. Anybody here know more?

Travelled from Farringdon to St Albans yesterday on 16:01 Three Bridges to Bedford service (9R42) which was diagrammed for 700113. Travelled in the rear car until shortly after Radlett then walked forward to car 9. On entering car 11 and then passing through car 10 there was a quite severe...

A faulty update of Crowdstrike software has caused much of the global commercial payment systems to collapse this morning. Are there any here caught up in it at the moment?

mods note - split from this thread I was preschool and primary school in the '50 and living in SW Essex, there were plenty of visual reminders of the war years, both in the destruction of urban properties, and the continuance of food rationing. My parents generation would repeatedly say,: "the...

Simple question really, - I am attending an appointment at Guy's Hospital today and will be travelling from St Albans direct to LBG on Thameslink. I intend to get a super off-peak London Thameslink return ticket, but NHS appointments being as they are, it may mean that I am not able to catch the...

Ccould probably minimise the impact by terminating at Kings Cross and for MML services use low level platform A or B*? The other line, if safe to operate with ongoing recovery operations in hand, could be used for short flights of through trains, (say 2xBML and one Sutton loop). It would...

I have a combined broadband/landline service from John Lewis that is effectively a tailored Plusnet package. John Lewis have informed me that it will not be possible to crete a new analogue contract after September this year and they will be discontinuing their product by the deadline. They have...

In passing Carlton Road Junction north of Kentish Town on Tuesday, I noticed that the north to west chord of the triangle (Carlton Road jct. to Mortimer St.) is closed to traffic. That is because there is demolition work over the tunnel Tottennham north curve (visible from the MML slows) where...

Mod Note: Posts #1 - #30 originally in this thread. In many areas, it's worse than that. Whole rows of ex-council houses that the council was forced to sell at ridiculous prices to tenants by the Thatcher government, are now owned by landlords charging full market rates. So, houses built for...

Travelled from St Pancras to St Albans yesterday evening on 9T50 Ex Brighton on unit 700133. In my experience all the 700s I've ever been on handle the worst bits of the MML fasts around Hendon to Mill Hill pretty well even at 100mph, but last night there were a couple of quite severe sideways...

TfL's status page is saying that on the Jubilee line today, there will be "Minor delays between Finchley Road and Stanmore due to train cancellations. GOOD SERVICE on the rest of the line." I need to travel from Stanmore to North Greenwich today, does this mean that there is a limited service as...

mods note - split from here. Installing a dummy 3rd rail with warning notices would be a serious safety failure, - especially anywhere near operational 3rd rail territory. It would devalue the genuine warning signs once the word was out that the preserved track had warnings just for trivial...

I am planning to travel to York from St Albans on 17th September, the original (somewhat obvious to me) route was to use TL form St Albans (SAC) to St Pancras (STP), then LNER fro Kings Cross (KGX) to York (YRK). Both the LNER and TL journey planners include a RR bus journey from (SAC) to...