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Tfl have announced that the NCL will go to KGX before 0700 and after 1900, with trains terminating at Old Street 0700-1900. TfL information page

Heworth to Gateshead was probably my best.(other than the time I lived in walking distance from the office). Metro was pretty reliable, and every other train was empty, after starting/ending at Pelaw.

I suspect it was one of the things deferred in the Great WCRM overspend debacle

I wonder if part of the problem with staff awareness is that a lot of passengers in central London are, and are employed as experienced information workers, and that may be their primary function in their current job. This also extends to the social media teams at TOCs. Train dispatch and...

Caught in this, definitely a bad day to travel in South London. Southeastern control very kindly laid on some special stop orders for trains on the Catford loop. Unfortunately nobody told the driver on the train I was on, meaning that the passengers were then abandoned at Peckham Rye without...

Indeed, no local public transport runs in North East England on New Year's Day. Long distance services (except those along the Tyne valley and Durham coast lines) run as normal. West Yorkshire also don't run buses on 1 Jan, but local trains do run. Many other non-PTE areas also don't run...

Peterlee? On second thoughts, maybe that doesn't fit the question.

Would it not be worth subcontracting the OHL work to NexusRail in this case? It's far more in Nexus' interests to keep a good supply of spares than it is for Network Rail. I'd also question the "metro not a part of National Rail", and say that it is as Mich a part of National Rail as Heathrow...

Not sure where to post this as the infrastructure is Network Rail, but National Rail services are running OK (in fact Northern ran some extras yesterday to compensate), just T&W metro is affected... Anyway, Metro services between Pelaw and St Peters have been cancelled for 2 days now due to...

If you look at https://youtu.be/XR8mDcbrlmU, you can see the family resemblance

Just been on said unit (presumably, I didn't see the number). Two quick photos attached. The grabrails were turquoise, and I'm sure the lino was a lighter colour (although that might just have been due to it not having had enough time to acquire the Thameslink 'cleanliness' standard) Still...

I felt for the Sutton and Sevenoaks line users (particularly the latter, as there ain't no buses after dark in those parts of Kent) In the evening peak, there didn't seem to be anything stopping at Shoreham or Eynesford, at least there were no announcements at Bromley S to indicate any were...

Are you referring to the old blue and white LCDs, or the new colour ones as pictured here? http://www.railtechnologymagazine.com/write/MediaUploads/New_station_screens_in_use.jpg

The issue here is the Ticketing agreement not keeping pace, and the issue of potential discrimination. Until online and TVM retail channels are subject to the same impartiality requirements as a ticket office, destaffing is a tremendously bad idea. A variety of disabilities, some of which are...

Do you require a zip card to get the £6 paper product? If the only requirement is to be between 11 and 15 then it makes a good deal of sense for a one off visitor, since the zip cards have to be ordered a week in advance, and even with the young discount on a normal oyster you have to pay the £5...

...of course if ATOC was to get rid of their ridiculous fees for non TOC travel agents, and allow 3rd party travel agents to take over the travel centres, we could consider dumping some booking offices

And how many airline passengers turn up on spec and expect to be accommodated on an aeroplane to their destination within the next hour? Part of the beauty of our rail system is the ability to be spontaneous... The current ticketing system *does* support that. But that means the customer...

AFAICT, only proper Ticket Offices are covered by the impartiality requirements. Remember that the rules were written when most ticket machines could only sell a limited range of tickets to a limited range of destinations, long before the ubiquitous portable computing technology we have now...

I'm not sure the DfT give two hoots about making franchisees honour the TSA. After all, if they did, they'd insist that every ticket office closure is accompanied by enhancing ticket machines to sell all walkup tickets (certainly any that don't require a form to be processed) --- old post...

I would be mindful that there does seem to have been an uptick in train failures on Thameslink lately, particularly affecting the 319s that do the Wimbledon and Sevenoaks services, so leave extra time if you can