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The local dialect refers to it as Kölle rather than Köln, in the same way that many Bavarians refer to Minga rather than München. Then there's the likes of Meenz...

Smethwick Galton Bridge is utterly bitter.

That's Smethwick West, Rolfe Street was the station after it when the Stourbridge trains ran into New Street and it's the station after Galton Bridge for the Wolvo-Brum stoppers.

If there's any delay, WMT love to run express to Shirley, despite a large number of the passengers wanting the inner 5 stations. There are however some Stratford line services (and the peak extra) which do first stop Spring Road.

Some trains on the Bayerische Oberlandbahn split into three - one split at Holzkirchen and one split at Schaftlach.

It's all very damp around Stafford. The 07:15 Birmingham to Glasgow just proceeded through the Stafford area quite slowly until Norton Bridge, lots of standing water on both sides of the line and it hasn't rained heavily for about 12 hours here.

I'm afraid that once again there are problems at Penkridge.

The train manager on my Avanti service this evening claimed that the bus replacement service was from Dovey Junction - which would be novel.

Have paid both, they are grim. Rack Rate in Frankfurt/Main during the Book Fair - the next year I commuted in from Mainz, much cheaper and so much nicer than Bankfurt. Work paid for that - nearly €700 a night for the room and this was about 15 years ago. IATA fare coming back from Madrid to...

If it's open, it's better to cut through the Bull Ring, the tunnel is unpleasant and a magnet to beggars, mind you so is Thousand Trades square and the entrance to New Street. It needs much better lighting, better wayfaring and a very, very deep clean.

S-Bahn Nürnberg can be pretty full as well. Just managed to squeeze on a vastly overcrowded off-peak Thursday afternoon Buchloe-München Hbf last September. Similarly Salzburg-München Ostbf Meridian. Getting the BOB to the lakes on a nice weekend can be fun as well.

Koblenz is very nice and has a branch of the DB-Museum.

Crewe to Cardiff Central - 139mi 77ch Crewe to Cardiff Central via the HOWL (17:20 ex Crewe) 200mi 1ch

Manned ticket barriers with people who won't let you through if you wave a laundry ticket at them. However, they have been there a fair while now, so growth must be coming from elsewhere as well.

I remember getting hot buttered toast from buffets when going between New Street and Bristol Parkway when I was at uni in Swansea between 1983 and 1986.

Yes, was told this at Spring Road this morning, it was the first one the booking office did, the monthly season was reduced by £16 after the booking office put in a code - which was actually about £2 lower than the monthly season in the previous year. Of course, that means it will go up by about...

But is often done during the evening peak on the Snow Hill lines. 18:10 Cancelled, 18:31 express to Shirley, 18:39 Cancelled has happened several times. Around a ⅓ of the passengers on that route use the five stops frequently skipped.

Can the Snow Hill lines not revert to the previous timetable in May, that worked reasonably well, the current one is a disaster. Last Friday saw the genius collective cancel four Stratford/Whitlocks during the evening peak, but ran the normal albeit sllghtly late timetable for Dorridge/Leamington.

I am very fond of my old home station of Stourbridge Junction.

Well, I just got a ham and cheese croissant, cereal bar and a yoghurt served in a box very sharpish out of Euston. Don't know about drinks yet.