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I've just got the sleeper from Briancon to Paris, unlike my experience on the Scottish and Cornish sleepers, it was so smooth that I didn't even realise we had stopped moving when we got into Austerlitz. On the negative side, the compartments were for 4 and then the electric failed so we got...

Doubt that this has anything to do with reducing food waste. I noticed that the Christmas menu was reduced and hoped it was just because fewer people were travelling, but the Winter Dish Menu has Avocado muffin, overnight oats, bacon roll and sausage sandwich as options. No more 'full english'...

Is there a reason you call it Silverton instead of Silvertown?

Well the Express part is :smile: Unfortunately I understand people have found the trans-pennine service is not one to rely on. I'm lucky not to have to commute. I do sympathise this the London-centric approach to planning in the South; but it does often feel that any investment is funnelled...

Of course a similar University line connecting Liverpool Uni, Manchester, Leeds(and Bradford), York and Hull would be impossible to contemplate since our politicians aren't sure that there is much intellectual life beyond the OxBridge corridor. A reliable, quality service between universities...

I'd like to see ministers have to travel/experience the same frustrations as ordinary people (queue for ages to get through security at the airport, wait in A&E for hours and fail to get a GP appointment for 2 weeks, and - of course - stand on a windy cold dark platform and wonder if they would...

People only learn if they care. My suspicion is that the rail companies highest priority is not caring for the travelling public.

Maybe they could ask for volunteers on the train

Disagree ... the bit that is built is for people in Birmingham to get to LONDON quicker, or for people from LONDON to get home after a hard day in the remote parts of the UK (ie. not the South East). When it was going to reach Manchester the argument was the same ... the focus was on travel to...

From what people are saying above, it sounds like the problem is not with any of the individual train types; but the lack of any spare capacity which means that one defect has knock on effects across the whole network that Northern run? If they had 'spare' trains, could that not solve the...

That comment (the second one) cheered me up for the day ... so nice to read how someone likes their job for the simple fact of seeing the leaves turn for autumn. We don't appreciate the little things around us enough. I was on an LNER train a few weeks ago, and the man serving drinks made a...

And soon you'll be able to travel from Birmingham nearly to London Euston in 45 minutes ... and then change to another local service to get to Euston. Of course it also hasn't taken 5 hours to get from London to Birmingham for decades (except on a bad day :) ) 1730370411 Bit rude about the...

Yes ... and no. Every industry is different of course. But a management that isn't able to manage even something as simple as moving off antiquated technology to something more suited to the 21st C isn't worth the money they are paid. The whole rationale for moving to private industry instead of...

We are in Northern Ireland and all flights were cancelled today. Soonest to our destination was Tuesday (as everybody had grabbed the spare seats on the planes tomorrow), so we are going to Edinburgh and getting the train south in the later afternoon. Fingers crossed trains will be running then.

Well ... my father (80 at the time) had to walk home 7 miles in the snow after all public transport and taxis decided not to run. He felt he had no choice as his wife was at home recuperating from a heart attack. Not sure how that wasn't endangering people. Still, he made it and everybody was...

Thank you so much. Like you I wish I had used it. I had no idea that it had limped along just into the 1980s!

I have a children's book from way back which describes a boat train from Victoria which was actually a sleeper. It ran onto the boat, had the wheels adjusted to French gauge and then ran on in France when it landed. I've never found any other reference to this, anywhere. Did this really happen?

Thanks - so does that mean that because the first train was delayed so I couldn't get the second one and had to stand rather than get a seat, I can claim full compensation for the whole journey?

Thanks - I think the plans started in MT's time - but the point stands surely, that privatisation was meant to make things better, bring in investment, blah blah blah. and it hasn't worked. The only part of the UK that hasn't denationalised is N.Ireland and numbers have increased proportionately...

My one concern is with a split ticket, each ticket is separate. If I miss a connection do I have any come back or have to lump it?