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Appendix 1 in the link seems to suggest that a unit will run from Weymouth at 1210 to Yeovil Junction, then shuttle to Pen Mill a couple of times, before forming a return working to Weymouth, rather than running Weymouth to Salisbury and back. I think this is probably filling time between a...

You chaps have done a lot better with this than I. Having travelled around China quite a fair bit by train with reasonable levels of success, I tried to catch a train from Beijing to Badaling twice before giving up and getting a taxi to Mutianyu. Even as someone who speaks a little Mandarin, the...

I agree with Busaholic's posting above. I used to love travelling down to Penzance (my family home) by train, but the experience has become so unpleasant that I would prefer to sit in a traffic jam on the M5 in the comfort of my own car than risk another journey crammed in an HST toilet from...

Nice to see something a bit innovative, but at 1hr14 between arriving in Yeovil and arriving in Weymouth - a distance of less than 30 miles - it's going to feel like a lot of travel time from places that aren't really that far from Weymouth. 15 minutes standing at Dorchester West will feel like...

I'm very much enjoying your postings, following you as you go. I have no idea what inspired the completely unwarranted rude comment above. Having re-read your first post, it makes no sense at all! Ignore and keep going!

Oops, yes, sorry, I should clarify my end destination is often Penzance. Advance tickets taking advantage of cheap Reading - Penzance prices tied me into a specific North Downs line train (I think!). Have either hired cars or flown to Newquay in recent years as often more convenient if UK...

Indeed, if they have any sense, they'll just hire a car instead. Which is exactly why the railway, if it wants the custom, should try to attract it. And if it doesn't want it, don't offer the cheap advances in the first place. Some of us arriving in airports aren't actually arriving from a...

I haven't done this precise trip but I have done a handful of Chinese sleeper trips over the past years and they certainly don't come with the charm of the Penzance sleeper! I don't remember a solo option being available but different routes might have different options. The biggest problems...

The situation at Gatwick with regards to tickets is completely ludicrous. I regularly travel around the world, and I generally think I have a fairly decent understanding of the railway system in the UK but the vast array of ludicrous options, meaningless to most of the tourists who've just...

Brilliant. Thanks Neil. Worked a treat. Far more user friendly than Rail Europe which I normally use for Europe. Will use this in future.

Does anyone know any other booking engines for France to Italy train tickets. I want to travel from Cannes / Nice to Milan on 18th March, which is within the ticket window. The Rail Europe / Voyage SNCF site only offers me connections through Geneva taking 11 hours rather than the direct...

Two consecutive Penzance - Paddington journeys with standing room only from Camborne / Redruth onwards, one of which was 90 minutes late, the other 60. Uncomfortable, squashed journeys, both of them. Probably 2008 or so. Unless I can get a solo cabin on the sleeper, I take the car these days to...

Having lived in that part of the work for years, it seems like a pie-in-the-sky idea conceived with no concept of the costs involved. It doesn't avoid the busiest part of the SWML (the bits closer to London), it wouldn't be practical without a new junction at Yeovil, which would then in turn...

The situation has been quite bad in the north west for days, additional water falling on saturated land. An empty double decker bus is causing the authorities in the Isle of Man some problems having been sitting on a 200 year old bridge as it collapsed in a flash flood the other day. Millions of...

Agree, I think they were pretty crazy to do it, although I can understand why they wanted to. Having spent 23 hours in a North Korean Railways coach from Pyongyang to Beijing, I think seven days from Moscow would be rather uncomfortable! I'd personally be more concerned about the staff of the...

Having recently done it, what really stands out about the Pyongyang metro is that it really isn't that different from any other metro in the world, although, as with other things in NK has a number of strange quirks. The stock receives a "star" for successful completion of 50,000 miles service...

Your points argue with each other. As a regular traveller to Bangkok amongst a lot of each other Asian cities, I rely on the fact I can turn up, and the systems in Asia make it easy for me to travel from the airport to the nearby capital city. And then I arrive at Gatwick, and even as someone...

Similar arrangements exist in the UK designed to fleece new arrivals unfamiliar with the country, the currency and capital city transportation, with a view to tricking them paying much higher prices for very similar services. In the UK, they call themselves "Heathrow Express".

I've done this. It's both confusing and bizarre, despite the fact I read and speak enough Greek to identify basic public notices and destinations. It was probably 2009 when I tried to travel Piraeus to the airport on suburban OSE line. I think it originates at Piraeus before travelling into...

I think some of you may overestimate the extent to which the general public read the small print in railway timetables. I'm sure some of the sixty knew it was pick up only. The rest of them probably saw the FX and FO columns in the timetable, couldn't see note "u" at the bottom of the page, and...