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A large percentage of commuters have flexible working available to them* although not all take this up. Annual season ticket prices are roughly based on 400 single journeys i.e. 200 returns For conventional working a season ticket therefore makes sense, but even one day a week working from...

As a counterpoint to the Poor Station Design thread https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/poor-design-of-railway-stations.166620/, how about a thread for examples of good design on railway stations? As this is in the UK section of the site I suppose we'd better mainly keep it to UK stations. To...

Spotted a Grand Central 180 (180106*) in Leeds station this morning (~08:20) - wondered what is it doing there? GC don't operate into, out of, or even through Leeds even though it would love to I'm sure! It was showing 'Not in service' on its external PIS. Sat in a bay platform (6 or 7 I...

Hope this hasn't been covered to death here, but this follows on from comments in various refurb, PRM-mod and manufacturing threads. It used to be taken as gospel that a DMU would last ~40 years and an EMU ~45-50 years, with mid-life refurbs to the interior. From personal experience the...

Apologies if there is an existing thread, couldn't find it. West Midlands Trains (WMT) have apparently ordered 26 Civity DMUs from CAF (80 vehicles in total) under the TOPS classification of 196xxx to replace their 170s - does anyone know how these differ from 195s? Only difference I can find...