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Am I missing something but why would anyone buy a Solo Berth ticket when first class is cheaper? As it is I might leave the bicycle at home and simply fly up - if only Inverness flights still went from Heathrow.:( then it would be a definite no brainer for me - plane rather than train

Travelling down on the 1840 Glasgow to Euston Service in coach G All announcements inaudible - not problem I thought until we all missed an announcement at Preston?? (the next station was Wigan North Western) to detrain, to cross the platform and board another train. After time someone noticed...

Coming in with my bike from Aintree and changing at Moorfield on Wednesday. Is an arrival time of 0918 going to be OK to connect with the 0932 departure heading out to Wigan North West to get a Glasgow bound train given I do not know the station? I think the 0932 leaves from platform 2...

Travelling at about 1745 This is what I have found Catch a Thameslink train to East Croydon cost 2.50 At East Croydon alight and touch in with a contactless debit or credit card. Change at Clapham Junction Get train to Syon Lane Touch out with the same contactless card for an...

HSBC bank whose UK branches were once the Midland Bank is talking of leaving the UK so as to make more profit rather than pay the taxes it suffers. The Departure of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation would be another example of the business not being prepared to pay their full...

Having had some idle moment I went to the Civil Nuclear Police Authority web site. On the site was So my question is do trains that move the Flasks about have an on board armed guard (presumably in the cab with the driver)?

Does such a thing exist? All the apps I have found act only as a gateway to TfL's site or data for registered cards. All I want to do is for my phone to read the balance off my card and tell me what it is . I do not want to get tfl back office data (my travel history) unless it is held on...

I have just found this on the Scotrail website and I thought how eminently reasonable And since there is no recent cycling and trains thread I thought I would put it here to publicly praise whoever is responsible. media-centre/new-trains If only things were so simple in London:cry...

Here we go again. First the heightened security warning. Then the extra government powers All for our own good of course. http://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/jul/06/track-phone-usage-law-snoopers-charter http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-28182494 More people are killed...

This has a first class section. I asked the guard who said it was not declassified it is not automatically declassified although the train is timetable standard only. I asked how much the first class fare was to Norwich and she said she would sell me an upgrade 7.50 which she said was how they...

I have a couple of halves of Sheffield flyers one of which expires on the 12th. I am also armed with a Derbyshire Wayfarer http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/transport_roads/public_transport/tickets_passes/rover_tickets/derbyshire_wayfarer/default.asp so I fancy having another go at the High Peaks...

Yesterday I forgot to pick up my Oyster PAYG and I caught the 0525 from Southall by the skin of my teeth. The two carriage train which started, I think, from Didcot was surprisingly well patronised and ran on the fast rather the relief lines. The barriers at Paddington were open and no one was...

17.55 ex Lowestoft is Direct Rail loco hauled set. Is this normal? Seems to have lot of rail staff on board.

Prompted by the Bad news for Pensioners, Commuters etc in South Yorkshire thread http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?p=1694785#post1694785 which seems by some to be going the way of "Tough -pensioners do not deserve their country-wide bus passes" I thought I would point you at this Quiz...

FWIW I support the strike which is over a cost cutting exercise by BAA. I like their trains, they are fast clean and fairly reliable. I like knowing that there is someone responsible on board besides the driver I like seeing people with no tickets being made to pay. I think on board staff...

Early Closing Day, for those too young to know, was a day in the week when the shops closed early at lunchtime. In some cases shops closed all day. We all knew this and life adapted. It still happens in some villages but in London this early closing has vanished. What happens in your area...

Yet a gain a politician has been coaught with their fingers in our till. Maria Miller, Basingstoke MP has over-claimed on her expenses by more than £40,000 If you or I could make off with thousands I suspect our collars would be felt since we are only little people and we pay taxes...

Age 35 as she begins a whole live term the cost to keep her in prison for the next 35 years is going to be over £1,000,000 as it apparently costs some £30,000 a year to keep a prisoner locked up. Ok so in its wisdom the country has abolished the death penalty but I would like to suggest that...

Way back in 2005 on this site was it was said in this thread http://www.railforums.co.uk/showpost.php?p=296043&postcount=1 Nine years on I read http://www.railjournal.com/index.php/europe/new-thameslink-trains-previewed-in-london.html My Questions, revealing my ignorance, on this wet...

I am thinking of this and wondered if anyone had been there recently or could offer some suggestions or advice for fairly lazy but fun time? http://www.taiwanrailways.com/index.htm