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Ok first experience with refurbed 360 today... Initial experience great. Comfy seats with plenty of give, tables are nice and big and line up with the windows. Then the 8 other very full carriages on platform 1 unloaded due to some sort of failure and came onto our 4 car and things turned...

Was aiming for the one (potentially) refurbed 360 due out today but looks like it's diagram was changed since very early in the day due to "a problem with the on-board safety systems (M0)." Still have yet to see any in the flesh... The other morning I was in an Aircon failed short formed unit...

My standard Google search when heading out is "realtimetrains <stationcode/stationname>" and the first link invariably brings me to the detailed view for that station for departures now. When I notice disruption en-route my Google search is "opentraintimes <stationname>" to produce a map of the...

As long as we're dreaming, I would go 9/10 car 140mph articulated tilting quad mode trains with a full kitchen and restaurant service on every service. 3 travel classes a la Trenitalia Frecciarossa with 1+1, 2+1 and 2+2 reclining seating (with *proper* padding), reintroduce as many of the...

Forgive my ignorance, but unless this new gate style is also bump resistant, then can it really have much of an impact? (*except at stations that don't currently have barriers). I see gate pushers nearly every time I travel, yet haven't seen anyone gate jumping in many many years...

I was sure that a /s was missing from that post ... I wouldn't even class the MML as a main line - it doesn't connect London to any of the major population centres or go far enough north, its somehow both got too many trains and not enough capacity, its London "terminus" is a joke of a shoebox...

Most important line: WCML Busiest line: WCML Fastest line: WCML (I don't count HS1 as a main line, it's an uncomfortable commuter line with a fast portion) Best rolling stock: WCML Most historic line: ECML Best connected line: XC Premier line: GWML Whatever the best name for the combined...

Gotta say that I am incredibly annoyed (but obviously not surprised) at Thameslink this week. I get that they cannot run their normal service, but cutting their services to reduce capacity by a combined 80% to Luton is just inexplicable. I get that some stock may be stranded at Bedford, and...

Do you have access to a VPN?

Given that I've just learned that the driver of the train i was probably going to take on the way home tonight has probably died, I am taking a few minutes to pause and reflect.

Agreed but in the instant news era perception is everything. EMR had the disruption on their site way before TL, but still woefully belated for anyone needing to travel.

I am not going to join in on the speculation of the cause and would urge everyone else to not do the same. Right now I am: Hoping above all else for no fatalities or life changing injuries. Sad that a brand new train has been damaged. Pessimistic about incoming reductions to the Connect...

Damn, was wondering why I was stuck at elephant and castle - although that doesn't seem important now...

This honestly all sounds like the government quiet quitting the project - extending the deadlines ridiculously by massively reducing year on year expenditure to fund their other promises while kicking the can down the road so the next government (which is obvious even to them to be anyone but...

I checked tfl on approach to Paddington and chose the h&c as it was closest, due shortly, and had no changes or delays. If that had delays I probably would have headed for crossrail. Return via sleeper back to London after exploring Scotland.

Thanks for the unlock. Short answer: 1 Short-ish answer: about 40% of RTT/OTT runs were successful before this one... Perth was definitely the easiest connection! So after alarms at 4am and thereafter every 15 minutes on a phone I couldn't reach from my bed I made the 05.03 with 5 minutes...

Thank you MrJeeves!

That seems to jog and fulfil the "memory" section of my post, thank you! Now to find out if there is a current version somewhere - ie not including the words first capital connect! :lol:

My memory may be failing me, but seem I remember reading something a while back that implied that Thameslink tickets from the MML to London Bridge were also valid for travel via West Hampstead to London Bridge on the underground. Was I mistaken or correct? And if correct, is this still the...

That photo is not particularly inspiring... It suggests that passengers from the north of the station may need to cross the existing footbridge, go down the lift to outside platform 5, re-enter the station, go up the other lift on platform 5, and then down again to their required platform...