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Since railway privatisation, the majority of routes are run by a single operator, but in some cases there will be either different routes from one place to another (e.g. Birmingham to Edinburgh, you can travel by either Virgin Trains up the West Coast Main Line or Cross Country up the East Coast...

Thanks very much :)

It's a long shot but does anyone know / is anyone able to access which unit operated 2J23 1855 Machynlleth to Pwllheli on Sunday 24th March? Thanks in advance.

UK Steam (http://www.uksteam.info/tours/trs13.htm) is very good for listing details of all the tours booked - it also has a separate page for loco movements without trains. Once you know when something is booked, you can check Realtime Trains for its passing times, although they'll often be...

There are some pretty lengthy ECS Voyagers from Central Rivers. 5A21 VT 0357 Barton-under-Needwood RSMD to London Euston 0648 (via Birmingham New Street) http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/P50064/2013/05/16/advanced 5V82 XC 0426 Barton-under-Needwood RSMD to Reading 0717...

Because of the constraints of pathing trains on the WCML, the xx13 and xx49 trains from Euston carry on through to Birmingham. There's also a slower xx54 from Euston which is advertised as terminating at Northampton, then waits for 15 minutes or so (where it is overtaken by the following xx13...

FGW use Adelantes on a few slower services as well as the faster ones. The following services are all booked for Adelantes on the slow lines, but may be replaced by 165s/166s at short notice due to reliability problems... 2N04 0522 London Paddington to Oxford 0702 2P22 0700 Oxford to London...

There was also a very irregular (about 4-5tpd IIRC) local service along the Trent Valley, operated by Central Trains. At privatization this was run using 153s, often as an extension of Coventry - Nuneaton trains (running Coventry - Stafford or Coventry - Stoke-on-Trent), then was replaced by...

As far as I know, the only signal box in the Duddeston area still manned is the Aston Signalling Centre (confusingly located south of Duddeston station), which controls the Cross City line between Aston and Lichfield Trent Valley.

It closes for two weeks on Saturday 30th. So it will still be running on the 29th. :)

I'm aware of that - I meant that the Aberystwyth service is diverted to Crewe and not running to Wolverhampton or Birmingham. And I was intending to buy a Minffordd to Four Oaks Off Peak Single. I've checked the routing guide and it's not normally valid as far as I can tell...

I've looked into going via Crewe and it would actually be quicker to where I'm going (Four Oaks) - not sure if the ticket would be valid though! The local buses to Wolverhampton are even more painfully slow - the 126 is the only direct one and takes about 90 minutes I think! The Metro might be...

Hello, There seems to be some kind of engineering work closing the south end of Wolverhampton station on Friday 29th March (Good Friday)...

Judging by the departure times in the Shropshire Star article (1133 & 1837), these may be additional services from Euston - no VT services currently depart at this time (existing Birmingham trains at xx03 & xx43, Wolverhampton at xx23).

It looks like the originally planned passenger service (http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/Y32164/2013/01/30/advanced) was cancelled due to the late arrival of an inbound service, so they ran the train empty stock back to Manchester ready to form its next working. Why they did this instead of...

It sounds like you saw a Permit to Travel machine - these work as follows. You put some money in (anything from 5p upwards) towards paying the fare, and it issues you with a slip for this amount. When the time comes to purchase a ticket, either from the conductor on board the train or from a...

They issue reservation coupons to 'tie' you to a certain train, as advance tickets do. It's just they don't go to the bother of actually allocating you a seat. Unfortunately I think you are still tied to that train, because of the reservation coupon. It's a fairly common thing amongst...

I've used the Saveaway ticket no problem on the ordinary daytime River Explorer cruise, it's just only valid in one direction (I used it Pier Head to Woodside) - you have to show your ticket at the ferry booking office to get a boarding pass.

London Midland don't do reserved seats - all seats are unreserved. :) Have fun! HTH

3xxx is generally used for high-priority ECS (e.g. 3P16 0542 London Paddington to Didcot Parkway is an HST forming a busy peak-time train back to London). 0xxx is meant for Light Engine moves, although is also used to denote bus services (0B00) and ships (0S00).