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This is the info they gave us: So it may just be Catalonia. Apparently Girona is also a nightmare because half the city is closed as they are filming Game of Thrones there.

They've just let us know that there is a huge strike planned for the 11th. Which will make getting back from Girona interesting. And apparently half of Girona is off limits as they are film game of thrones there...

Thanks. I'll look into that.

It's a legacy of Branson being a massive Dukes of Hazzard fan and an homage to 1970s TV (why else do you think that there were Thunderbirds?) The plan was that drivers would leap through the window a la Bo Duke before departure and the horn was going to play Dixie. The DFT rejected it on...

It is probably a shame that they can't do what they did at the Woking 150 which as I recall featured the 4-Sub and 2 Bil running shuttles. It'd be nice if they were able to get the old Southern Electrics like the COR, BIL, SUB etc as well as the later SR VEP/CIG/TC/BEP/EPB, and then onto...

Thanks. I'm assuming that once we get to Sants that we can buy a ticket for a train (even if it is more expensive). Although we are only travelling with hand luggage, I've no idea how long it'll take to clear customs or to get the train from the airport to Sants. I don't want to book a train...

Quick question. I need to go from Barcelona to Girona in a few days time. I have the option of buying the tickets online. My question is - are the tickets similar to advanced tickets in the UK where you have to get a specific train. The train trip is the same day as we fly in so I don't want...

You know for once you could just admit that you jumped to conclusions and that you were wrong. It doesn't hurt to say 'sorry I didn't realise that you were asked to change the thread. Sorry for wrongly accusing you of having an agenda against railway staff.'

I also deleted the part about him being a manager/administrator rather than a member of staff. So that blows your claim about having an agenda out of the water. :roll: I amended it because because I was asked to by the mods as they were concerned that the thread would be derailed into another...

Well, not much, but when he opened the doors he got out with the child and his attention seemed to be as much on the child as the job. I've seen other people sit their children down in part of the train, given them a book/phone game, told them to sit and behave themselves and then gone off...

I do find that I always get a headache on the Voyagers. I am not sure if it is the stale air. I find that I get the same on 444 and 450 as well. HSTs, 165/166, 180, I don't seem to have the same problem.

This made me raise my eyebrows a little today. Our guard/train manager was guarding with his son/a small child in tow. I am curious as to whether it is normal policy on the railway for people to take their children to work with them. Especially in what most would consider a safety critical...

Since when was it considered acceptable not to offer the cheaper fare? The fares system is complicated enough as it is with all the different fare types and restrictions. Hence most people (other than FGW and people who think all passengers are scum) think that for your average irregular user...

I caught it once thinking it would be faster to Oxford than an FGW service. I was wrong. Still the reversal at Foxhall is interesting but you can't see anything as it is pitch dark.

One time I did have someone at Paddington sell me the wrong ticket. I was coming back from work and thought - I've got some time so I'll get my ticket now. Went into the ticket office said which train I was getting c08.30 and could I have a travelcard for tomorrow. The guy then sets up a...

The point is that most people don't know what the cheapest fare is. Another example of what FGW have done recently when they jacked up the fares along the Cotswold line. So our TVM the front screen which says London, Reading, Oxford, Travelcard etc, gives the highest priced version of the...

If you want to see the gauge change I'd suggest a better border would be the Romanian-Moldova border. If you get the Chisinau-Bucharest sleeper the change takes place in the Open at the border. You can see what is going on from the window. You can't as I recall get out during the change...

I wonder if what you rode behind was a 31? They have a similar boxy shape to the 73. And some were painted in the InterCity Livery...

And their the ones who get everyone else a bad name. I'd knock it on the head and say 'oh it is a couple of people' but it seems closer to the majority of the 'visible' enthusiasts than a rogue minority. I am sorry if you felt that 'autism' was used as a pejorative term because that was not...

That is very interesting, a very sensitive and well thought out policy by SWT.