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Two spring to mind to me: Stockport - Stalybridge Yeovil Pen Mill - Weymouth, which hasn’t deteriorated by much but has three hour schedule gaps which it didn’t 25 years ago, and has lost summer Saturday extras (although you could argue these were replaced by a year round Sunday morning...

I’m just round the corner from you in Sai Ying Pun. I flew down to Singapore on CX the other day, had an entire cabin to myself. This has never happened before. At least it meant i felt comfortable taking the dreaded facemask off. I’ve no idea how many daily flights there normally are HKG-SIN...

This certainly looks like a missing link on paper, but in practice a bridge over the GWR lines in Dorchester would have been the least of the LSW’s problems. I know the Victorians found a way through every hill, but the A35 west of Dorchester to Honiton is basically a sequence of very large...

This is an interesting discussion. As a long time Yeovil resident in the 80s and 90s i often wondered whether from a purely local perspective it would have made more sense to keep Weymouth - Yeovil - Taunton - Bristol rather than the route via Westbury. Obviously, it wouldn’t have had the same...

Thank you all for your help, very much appreciated. I think I'm just going to have to decide whether I can justify £61.20 for a day out! At least I now know I'll be getting the cheapest option. Thanks everyone!

Hopefully a simple one (and if I knew where to access the routing guide online, I'd find it for myself!). I'm flying into Gatwick tomorrow and have all day to waste before an evening appointment in London. I fancy going to the Isle of Wight mostly just to play on the old underground trains and...

Is this in Kaohsiung? If so, I think I stumbled over them myself completely by chance a few years ago, on the way back from the ferry port!

Going back even further, wasn't Milford Haven a sleeper destination for a least a few years? I'm away from my historic timetables to check!

I live in Singapore, where the station signs are often in four languages. It's a complete mystery to me how my colleagues all, without fail manage to alight at the same station every day, the metro system isn't full of dazed, confused and lost strangers, and how people don't turn up at the wrong...

The other forgotten bunch of people here are those without UK SIM cards and data roaming. As one of those people, it can be a real nuisance to have to pick up an excessive data roaming charge when I'm stood somewhere, the service has gone up the spout and I need to find a plan B! There must be...

I used this line pretty much every day for a spell in the mid 90s. The service is virtually unchanged since then. The biggest challenge is has is that it serves three quite different markets - the commuter service north of Frome (any further south of that and it's woefully slow compared to...

I live in Hong Kong, and having been over to Taiwan for work a couple of times, I thought i'd spend the weekend travelling around it by rail - I soon gave that up when I saw the time it takes to get down the east coast on the slow lines. The new Taoyuan Airport MRT, which I think only opened...

Not quite sure what "NOL" stands for, but the Dubai Metro ticketing machines are very easy to use. If I remember correctly, from the Emirates Terminal you come out into the arrivals hall, and the Metro is a long escalator across from you. At the top of that, there's ticket machines taking card...

It's worth remembering that visitors to the UK often don't have data roaming, which makes paper timetables pretty useful. That's why I use them in the UK anyway.

I'm enjoying this thread. How did railspeak end up with "all change" meaning "get off the train", even at stations where there are no other public transport services to change onto? Are they expecting me to remove all my clothing and replace it in honour of our arrival?

I do take Wolfie's point that a "general London" ticket would likely take the value of the current most expensive - we've kind of seen that with Oyster to Gatwick already, although without completely segregated GX platforms there's not an awful lot that can be done with the technology at the...

You could improve Gatwick quickly and easily by simplifying the vast confusing array of ticketing options facing tourists who arrive at the airport. This confusion leads to 20 of the 25 ticket machines being held up by bewildered tourists who have absolutely no comprehension of the ludicrous...

Here in Douglas, Isle of Man, they've got a horse tram running down the middle of the promenade road, which is also a major road artery. The road surface is falling to pieces, but the presence of the tram tracks makes it, apparently, horribly expensive and complicated to resurface the road. The...

Heysham crops up in these threads quite often, but that one train a day serves a purpose in meeting the ferry. It's a pretty useful connection to or from the Isle of Man, having used it quite regularly for over a decade, there's always a fair handful of people on it. The actual numbers are...

The Isle of Man ferry is on an unusual schedule at the moment; the Ben-My-Chree which normally sails Douglas to Heysham is in for its biannual check-up for a fortnight, and has been replaced temporarily by the Liverpool boat on an earlier (and faster) sailing. Normally arrives 1215 and leaves...