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Hi all, I'm going to a wedding in Japan at the end of March, after which I've got four days to kill. I've been lucky enough to do both Tokyo and bullet trains fairly extensively before, so I'm hoping to find some rural places a little off the beaten track to use my JR Rail Pass on. I'm...

The South West Trains website now says signalling problems between Yeovil and Salisbury resulting in diversions via Westbury. You have to feel for the NR guys and the planners who seem to be facing every problem under the sun this weekend.

Let's be honest, there's not a chance in a month of Sundays of any of the alternative routes being opened in exchange for Dawlish without a major nationwide decision to invest in regional rail. The Okehampton - Tavistock link is wonderful in theory, but in reality, it's 16-odd miles of new rail...

Looking at the 1965 timetable on www.timetableworld.com, it appears that the fastest westbound service from Exeter to Plymouth was 1hr40, the fastest eastbound is 1hr30, stopping in each direction only at Devonport, Bere Alston, Tavistock, Okehampton. Much as it would be great to see this...

I've always felt that what's missing is an easy way to run westwards from East Dorset, esp. Bournemouth & Poole, and an interesting option would have been to keep Bournemouth - Poole - Templecombe and then along the existing route to Yeovil, into Yeovil Town and to Taunton. This offers a few...

To the OP, having just read the blog of your first Austria - Pyongyang via Tumangan trip (linked on the OP's other thread in the Trip Planning forum), have to say, one of the most interesting things I've read in 15 years of internet usage! Great work, not sure I'd have had the balls to lean out...

Thank you both very much for your assistance - I should have really searched the detail on the Brittany Ferries website myself before posting! It's a pity the buses don't show up on the Rail Europe website, but this is really helpful. I've now found a later TGV to Paris at 0932 - the extra...

Looking at booking a route via Plymouth-Roscoff on the way from Cornwall to a ski trip. The overnight sailing from Plymouth arrives Roscoff at 0800. There's a TGV to Paris at 0910 on a Saturday from Morlaix. Does anyone know if an hour and ten minutes is comfortably long enough to make that...

Not wishing to annoy those who use them, but I don't really understand why First Class Railcard fares exist. Surely the whole point of most railcards is to offer financial assistance to parts of the community who are more likely to require financial assistance to use public transport - students...

With regards Crosslink, it wasn't just the passengers who weren't particularly aware of it. I seem to recall there was one through service a week to Norwich (most only ran to Ipswich), and I remember trying to book a bike from West Hampstead to Norwich and the staff at the ticket office in...

This is the option that most often crops up online for pre-0930 Exeter arrivals and connections beyond if you don't book within a couple of weeks of Advance purchase. It just makes no sense - a two-car Sprinter in the Plymouth / Exeter rush hour being booked out in favour of the long distance...

Judging by the comments of a couple of the Swiss travellers on the train, I think I probably caught some fairly rare stock - they were basically criticising the Italian stock for being fairly antiquated. Pretty sure I had the same rake in both directions. I'm sure I should have felt fairly...

I caught the 0910 Milan - Zurich and 1709 return last Sunday - afraid I'm not suitably familiar with Italian stock to know what hauled it, but I had been expecting something shiny and Swiss, and was rather disappointed to find some tatty old Trenitalia compartmented stock (apologies if the...

Pretty sure the first train from Penzance to London Paddington has been fundamentally the same since I took an interest in railways in 1988. It's always had the same stopping pattern through Cornwall (always missed Camborne and Par, rare nowadays). If I remember rightly, it used to be 0521 from...

I fail to believe that any person, rail staff or not, would draw the conclusion that the unknown risk of staying in a crowded carriage full of smoke was a better option than the unknown risk of jumping onto a "landside" verge of ballast and moving off the railway a.s.a.p., which is what these...

The discussion about early morning drinking after a night shift is an interesting one. Personally, I do anything to avoid someone sitting swilling from a can any time of day (can't stand the smell), but the railway companies would do well do remember they are fundamentally a public transport...

That's really interesting, Caped Crusader, because on the trips I stated above, my flight lands in Gatwick at 0820, and I occasionally am travelling in groups of 4... I had no idea that price was available on GX and always go straight to the "Southern only" fares! Shows I don't know as much as I...

When I travel abroad, which I do very often, I tend to look up routes, but I don't tend to look up ticket combinations, because in the vast majority of situations, it really isn't difficult to get to the airport and buy a sensible ticket. Gatwick to London is an absolute nightmare. I live in...

But they're not asking for people to be publicly accountable for the timetable they've set. They're asking people to check for typesetting and layout errors in the timetable. The timetable is set. They don't want an "analysis from a user's point of view", they want someone to tell them that...

Thanks a million for your response, but that link is only referring to the service that has run this winter just ended. I guess I'll just have to wait for a while and keep checking into the Eurostar site! The suggestion of a split in Paris is an interesting one - possibly means not having to...