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Best speak to your HR department. While you could get excellent advice on here from someone knowledgeable, you could get complete nonsense. How would you tell the difference?

I used an old carnet ticket that I must have had for over 30 years today, paid for in francs. That worked.

I was at Milan Centrale yesterday. There are two 'immediate travel' desks in the middle of the concourse, train side of the barriers. Both were staffed. Don't exit through the barriers. I arrived at 14.58 from Rome, ten minutes later had my Interrail reservation for EC54 15.20 to Brig, but there...

I tried a couple of weeks ago at Lille Europe for a reservation from Paris Bercy to Clermont-Ferrand. The machine had the interrail option on it, but then didn't apply the 100% fare discount to leave just the reservation fee. The very helpful travel centre clerk did the reservation for me, but...

And before someone gets upset it is not necessarily traincrew being difficult for the sake of it. Many go the extra mile (literally) during disruption. But if you expect to finish work at xx.xx, then have an urgent appointment, school run or whatever, what else can you do.

Well compared to when I worked in Control there has been a massive leap in technology. But in those days you couldn’t even see where the trains were! But seriously, investing in IT is easy to say, more difficult to achieve successfully, especially in our fragmented railway. You have to be aware...

Indeed, and traincrew costs in particular are a big cost in running a railway. Hence the growth in computer systems to produce ever more mathematically efficient diagrams. But the old maxim, keep the crew with the train wherever possible, is the best way to aid service recovery. Much easier (in...

Obviously 'The Man in Seat 61' website is the first stop, but if you do Facebook there are a few useful sites there too, particularly when it cones to reservations. Just search Interrail on FB. No one can predict delays, just make sure you have a plan B. Then if you are delayed plan B becomes...

The best timetables and associated resource plans get the balance right between journey time, and operational cost and reliability. How many people on hear moan when there is slack in the timetable, for whatever reason, yet complain when their train is late. The current GA timetable is a good...

I'd agree, here's a few to look out for, including two on the Hamburg route: https://www.vagonweb.cz/razeni/razeni.php?rok=2024&vuz=START+WRmz+m&najit=Find&v=p

Thanks for all your research, interesting reading. I just wish my memory could answer why those through trains didn’t survive any longer than they did.

There are these two workings north of Hamburg: https://www.vagonweb.cz/razeni/vlak.php?zeme=ČD&kategorie=EC&cislo=174&nazev=Berliner&rok=2024 https://www.vagonweb.cz/razeni/vlak.php?zeme=ČD&kategorie=EC&cislo=175&nazev=Berliner&rok=2024 And look at EC174 to EC177 in this link...

I just tried to get a reservation from Paris to Clermont-Ferrand for next month using the ticket machine at Lille Europe. The interrail option is available, but it doesn't apply any discount, still wants to charge the full fare. Very helpful booking clerk in the ticket office sold me the...

Picking up from a closed thread, research by a retired Great Eastern timetabling guru has uncovered the following Liverpool St (LST) - Norwich (NRW) services via Cambridge. From 16 May 1983 to 13 May 1984, the following ran: 08.35 Mon-Sat LST - NRW (11.05) 12.35 Mon-Sat LST - NRW (15.06) 18.05...

On the ex Great Eastern bit at Colchester and Clacton depots, conductors are diagrammed between Marks Tey and Sudbury, Colchester to Clacton and Walton, and Manningtree to Harwich. Colchester to Colchester Town is DOO however. All the previous operational requirements for Conductors on 8 / 12...

Of course, I was only mentioning what I was told was best practice forty years ago. The bigger TOCs will have more complex permutations. Didn’t imagine it would start a debate!

Not to mention their 1,906m-long train, made up of 25 x 4 car units: https://www.rhb.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/redaktion/Ueber_die_RhB/Medien/Dokumente/Medienmitteilungen/Medienmitteilungen_2022/20221029_MM_Weltrekordversuch_english.pdf

:lol: You might say that, I couldn't possibly comment. Frustratingly there is a solution to get a consistent product on both Norwich and Stansted services, but no one will sign the cheque.

The 379 could keep time (just) on the Harwich branch trials, but the line speed is only 60mph with stops to test acceleration. Performance beyond that would perhaps have been a struggle.

Quite simply to help the 745 availability. 720s on the Stansted services further help that 745 availability, if you made another Stansted diagram 720s (if available) then perhaps you could remove the 755s on the Norwich line, but it is all robbing Peter etc....