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My wife and I will be travelling from Manchester to Berlin in September, a journey we have done several times before so we have a reasonable understanding of what is involved. We usually take two days over it, breaking our journey in Brussels. We will be using Interrail passes so plenty of...

… if there is nothing to tell you where on the train to make use of them. Last week I had reason to alight at North Llanrwst, which has Harrington Humps on both platforms. The stop board on the southbound platform is positioned so that the Harrington Hump is adjacent to the back (second) coach...

Can Interrail passes be used on the Eurostar/Thalys direct trains between Brussels and Dusseldorf, subject to the necessary seat reservations? If so, how do I make the reservations? My go-to site at SNCB responds with an error message and I can’t find how to just make a seat reservation at SNCF...

I have an off-peak return Manchester<->Euston bought as a E-ticket using the Avanti app. I find I am not able to use the (still valid) return half. Can I claim a refund? (The Avanti website says “yes” in one place and “no” in another.) If “yes” how do I do it? (The instructions on the Avanti...

In a few weeks time I am travelling from the UK to Wolgast on the Baltic coast of Germany and back again a few weeks after that. This isn’t the first time I have done this journey but I am baffled by what the Deutsche Bahn website is giving me this time. I am offered itineraries with a change at...

My grandson and his mother are currently staying in the DoubleTree by Hilton Leeds City Centre hotel in a bedroom overlooking the west end of Leeds station, much to the delight of my grandson. Many years ago I stayed in the Jury's Inn (now the Leonardo) whose upper floors have a grandstand...

I hope this is the most appropriate forum for my query. We are a family of five, four adults and one child travelling north from Kings Cross on a through train to Inverness in a month or so. Two of the adults and the child will alight at Waverley, the other adults will travel through to...

My wife and I often travel by train from Manchester to Galashiels, on our way to visit family in Peebles. The next time we do this, on Sunday 2 April, it will involve a rail replacement bus from Carlisle to Edinburgh, which is likely to pass near to Peebles. Would we be permitted to alight at...

About once a month my wife and travel from Manchester where we live to Edinburgh to visit family. Not wanting the hassle of changing trains we book with TransPennine to travel on their through trains, stipulating the time of train on which we intend to travel. When we made this trip in January...

(Moderators: I am not sure if this is the correct forum to raise this rather technical IT issue. Please move if not.) I have just returned from a trip London <-> Berlin using a Sparpreis ticket. I had received an email from buchungsbestaetigung@bahn.de with a PDF of the ticket attached. When...

My wife and I recently travelled by train from Milton Keynes to Pescara on Italy's Adriatic coast and back using option 2 "by morning Eurostar & daytime high-speed trains with overnight stop in Turin or Milan" from seat61.com and similar in reverse with an overnight stop in Paris. This part of...

From an earlier, now closed, thread: "I hear Northern Rail have purchased the Allerton TMD site, in preparation for the electrification of lines in area west. Anyone got more on this ?" Passing by today, I noticed that vegetation was being removed from around the tracks furthest from the...

Does anyone here have up-to-date information about whether Ireland's Golden Trekker Scheme will be re-introduced in 2011? Given Ireland's financial problems, this does seem monumentally unlikely but I cannot find a definitive staement.

According to the National Rail website and my son who is a passenger on a Virgin Train stranded at Nuneaton, there is an "incident" (a fire?) at Rugby station and all Virgin trains to and from Euston are suspended. Does anyone have any more information? My son is travelling from Stockport to...

Yesterday my son wanted to travel from Dolwyddelan (DWD) to Burnham (Bucks) (BNM) so I used the National Rail Journey Planner to check the changes if he left DWD at 15.11. This showed him changing at Llandudno Junction (LLJ), going forward at 16.25 and arriving in BNM at 06.xx the following...