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Hello A friend needs to get from either London bridge or cannon Street stations to Victoria coach Station this Sunday evening. Unless I'm misreading it, tfl weekly email update suggests no subsurface line journeys from cannon Street towards Victoria, which would also remove the option of...

Hello all I now live in the southeast of England and visit Scotland multiple times a year for family work and social purposes. I just thought I might make my life a bit easier by acquiring a smart card for Scott rail services, however, it's been nothing but hassle since I got it. Spent ages on...

Passing through here a few days prior to Christmas and couldn't help noticing that the main up escalator, the longest one on the system and indeed all the escalators to a certain extent. But this one in particular were sounding decidedly unwell. When were these last replaced and how much of a...

I'm not naming or shaming individual stations here, but this is becoming a far more common occurrence in recent times where passengers requiring assistance to or from trains and platforms are being told by the station that they want to travel to that that station is too busy to assist them...

can't find any other threads discussing this in any detail but my attention was caught in the WCRC monster discussion by a little dialogue between @d1630 And @paul1609 About the ongoing and potential future situation at SRPS railtours, I have rather cac handedly quoted the two posts in...

Hi all Intending to use this route for a work excursion this coming Friday and wondering if the rail replacement service is generally reliable or should I build in tons of extra time for it to be late or not turn up all together? Also is there a non-stop fast service from end to end or do all...

Hey all, reaching out to those in the know and or who more closely follow such things, Contemplating a Brussels, Vienna return trip mid or late September and wondering which rolling stock is likely to operate then? I know that a couple of the new semens sets are in traffic now but not well...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/lumo-plans-to-carry-additional-275-000-passengers-between-london-and-newcastle.261420 Personally, I feel that Lumo should be concentrating on trying to obtain additional rolling stock, to either lengthen the existing sets or have...

Hello all Can the real experts solve a question that is baffling me, my local booking office and the local generally friendly peak time RPI If I want to, as I regularly do make a journey from my local station of Chatham into London and back, going out on the 838 Thames link abbey wood...

As the title says really, interested in how people on here would deal with all the current issues in the great big melting pot of Scottish shipping. We all know the fleet is aging with particular challenges being the Caledonian mcbrain large vessel fleet and the Orkney isles internal ferry fleet...

Hello all I'm taking my friends kids on holiday in about 10 days time from Edinburgh to stay with their friends in between Dalbeattie and Castle Douglas As long bus or coach journeys make them travel sick it had been the plan to travel via Glasgow Central to Dumfries taking advantage of...

I can't be the only one that is extremely brassed off with the fact that from destinations such as the Medway towns, we have to endure a frustrating, unreliable and often non-existent five zero minute stagger on a Thameslink 700 cattle truck to reach the top end of the Elizabeth line from where...

I've noticed in various posts on other threads that there have been known issues with the 96 stock but have never been able to find out what these are and in the last year or so in particular I have noticed that a lot of these trains seem to have issues with ride quality, motor problems and...

Hi Likely missing the obvious here Having just moved to England from Scotland I got on a London bus today with my freshly minted Medway Council issue encs card was rejected. I can't find any reason why it should have been and have red absolutely everything I can find everywhere and can't...

Is the title suggests, any suggestions for a good pub lunch near or easily reachable by bus or taxi from the station? This would be for today. Feel free to suggest whether spoon but alternatives also extremely welcome. Thanks

Hi. I've loaded an off-peak day travel card onto my freshly minted southeastern Key smart card for use today. However only several hours after purchase did I realize that one of my journeys involves a bus. Presumably I won't encounter any difficulty tapping the card on the reader upon boarding...

It's over a decade since these opened and they have been absolute rubbish since day one. Frequent breakdowns and failures and at least one lot of major repairs requiring hoardings and and lots of bits being stripped down at cetera. Here we are in 2023 and at least two have been long-term off for...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/dft-publishes-cross-country-prior-information-notice.241142/ I very much hope that some money is found from somewhere for a a substantial change to the the fleet. XC needs a uniform load of bi-modes and in my personal view these...

Split from here On the asylum seekers and hotels discussion a few posts above I think I would cancel any booking at an asylum seeker hotel, nothing to do with the hotel or the asylum seekers themselves and everything to do with the fact that I don't think we should be spending taxpayers money...

Hello everybody. Anyone got any mega good suggestions for discounts or savings for this journey, travelling out this coming Friday and would be grateful for a dealer flexibility on the return, the return journey could be anytime from Sunday afternoon until the middle of next week hence why I...