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Due to what seems to be financial problems, Städtebahn Sachsen has suspended all its services (diesel lines around Dresden: Dresden to Kamenz, Dresden to Königsbrück, Heidenau to Altenberg, and Pirna to Sebnitz via Neustadt) on Thursday, without offering replacement buses and redirecting their...

The Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) has announced its plan to revamp Germany’s railways by introducing the “Deutschland-Takt”, i.e. a clock-face timetable for the whole of country. It is supposed to combine the different Länder Taktfahrpläne and a new one for...

Does the restriction of a Groupsave discounted off-peak return to London travelcard zones, that all people have to travel together, also apply for the Travelcard portion of the ticket, so when travelling on the Tube in London, or only on the rail-only return portion?

Hello there. I wondered what the official definition of what constitutes the City Line out of Liverpool Lime Street station is. Is it generally all lines and services out of the station, that serve other stations within the Merseytravel area or are there specific City Line services distinct from...

Hello all, I am writing a paper discussing the privatisation of British Rail and its effects. I am currently searching for customer satisfaction statistics of the British Rail era (preferable the later years shortly before privatisation, but generally, anything would be good) that I could...

Hi, in September, I am on a class trip to England. We will be staying in Canterbury, but we want to visit London on one day. We are 45 people (all 16 or over) and we would like to travel in London with the Tube too (zones 1 and 2). I am currently trying to figure out the cheapest fares there...

Leo Express intends to run loads more international services from December this year. They applied for paths at the Czech Office for Access to Transport Infrastructure for the following corridors: Prague-Berlin (D), 6 trains daily Prague-Brno-Bratislava (SK), 5 trains daily Prague-Brno-Vienna...

As far as I see, this has not yet been covered anywhere here. On 10 December 2017, the small country of Luxembourg (Luxembourgish: Lëtzebuerg, German: Luxembur ) opened its new capital tramway system and also two new railway stations (Pfaffenthal-Kirchberg and Howald) and the funicular that...

Berlin’s BVG’s marketing department has thought off a new funny way to advertise the company: they will sell a limited number of Adidas shoes (500 to be exact) with the distinct U-Bahn moquette design, that are also valid as an annual pass for all BVG U-Bahns, trams, buses and ferries, which is...

Not sure if this is the right forum for my topic, moderators do feel free to move this thread. On Christmas Eve I created a diagram covering all Overground, Crossrail and Thameslink routes as of December 2019, in a style loosely based on Berlin’s S-Bahn and U-Bahn map. I know, there are far...

For those who are not familiar: in Tokyo, ten of its 13 metro lines connect at one or both ends with both private and JR (the ex-national railway) lines. The rolling stock of all companies are used throughout all lines, though the staff usually stays within its company's area. Some trains travel...

German Railways (DB) are establishing seat reservations in regional trains (i.e. RB and RE) in more regions of Germany, formerly these were only available in long-distance trains (IC, EC, ICE). https://www.bahn.de/regional/view/regionen/info/sitzplatzreservierung-in-regionalzuegen.shtml This...

Midttrafik, the transport company for the Middle Jutland region, reports that the new light rail system, Letbane, did not open as planned on Saturday, 23 September 2017. The Danish Transport, Constructing and Housing Authority (Trafik-, Bygge- og Boligstyrelsen) rejected an assessment that the...

I was wondering about the grammar of the Welsh language announcements found at Arriva Trains Wales' stations. As far as I understood from previous threads on this forum, the phrase "calling at (intermediate stations) and (destination)" translates in Welsh to "yn galw ym (intermediate...

I travelled on Virgin Trains (West Coast) recently and noticed the train numbers display on the doors. Sometimes, it would show the headcode I can also find on Real Time Trains (e.g. VT 1H02) but on the other hand, I also saw seemingly random numbers (e.g. VT 7923). Does anyone know why this...

The Budapesti Közlekedési Központ (BKK) recently introduced a new e-ticketing system, but unfortunately it is full of bugs. Passwords are stored as blank text, you can easily hack into other users’ accounts (complete with personal data etc.) by manipulating the url, the admin password for the...

DB is completing its works on the new electronic signalbox in Wuppertal, that has accounted for many weekend closures in the past few years, which means that, again, the complete main line from Wuppertal-Oberbarmen via Wuppertal Hbf (main station), Wuppertal-Vohwinkel and further to Düsseldorf...

Hello! Yesterday, I drew a geographic map of the Liverpool Overhead Railway for the German, English and Russian Wikipedia articles. As you can probably see from the bio to the left, I’m not from Liverpool, so I wondered if anyone could review it with regard to general accuracy. Thank you very...

I've found two articles (in French) that report the following: the STIF (Syndicat des transports d’Île-de-France) thinks that the distinction between the Transilien and RER lines is unclear, so, the RER lines (A to E) will become just trains from 1 July. Read yourself...

I’m thinking of buying a BritRail pass, but I wonder if there are really no hidden exceptions to this ticket. Can I really take any train in Great Britain, at any time (even peak) and any operator (including the OAOs)? If so, £195 for eight days and two persons is a pretty good deal :D And a...