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Hi. There are posts from time to time about this subject but I don’t think there have been definitive views on the point. I wondered if there might be one. This is with no prejudgment on my part. I am genuinely interested in the take of any structural engineers. The attached photo shows things...

I have always wondered what went on inside the main central part of the building on the upper floors. You can see an elaborate looking staircase through a window but I have never managed to find any photos or description of what the central part was used for originally and what state the upper...

I posted a slightly inaccurate version of this query so am reposting to clarify. Since the new nonsense on tickets being fake sold out has started, I have started to buy off peak tickets for the weekend, in person from the booking office at my local station. I did it last week because Avanti...

Hi. Avanti cancellations seem to be creeping up again. If you are on a direct train that is cancelled the night before are you obliged to get an indirect train and change or can you get the direct service an hour later and claim delay repay?

The railway is becoming increasingly obsessed with playing with yield management toys. I have personally always suspected the net impact in terms of revenue of all the playing around and creating the complex ticketing system we now have is probably fairly neutral and not worth all the fancy...

I have been on a few journeys recently where no advance fares were available yes there were a lot of empty seats. Particularly GWR and Avanti. Today I was the only person sat in a carriage from Totnes to London. It seems like an incredible waste of capacity. Is there any particular consistency...

The title is purposefully political. One of the more egregious practices that the Tories allowed to creep in during their terms was pricing Advance fares ridiculously close to the more flexible fare. I am currently sat on a pretty much empty GWR service for which the only offer of an Advance...

Hi, does anybody know if SWT have a particular cycle policy during Glastonbury? I am intending to cycle away from the site on the Monday after the festival and get on a station before Castle Cary to then travel into London but want to make sure there is not a blanket ban or anything. The...

Hi. I need to travel from London to Nottingham via the passport office in Peterborough. Does anybody know if London to Nottingham via Peterborough is a permitted route on a London to Nottingham off peak return?

The latest version of the National Rail App is infuriating. There are loads of circumstances where you are now locked out from looking at journey details. It is any situation where the app decides it can’t offer you a ticket for that service. What on earth is going on. This is primarily an...

I am on a 390 and it is clear there is a problem with the refurb. Small in some ways but looks like a uniform issue and so large in that sense. The attached photos show the corners of the arm rests have already frayed. Pretty much every arm rest in the carriage I am in is affected. Obviously...

I am just on a class 373 Eurostar fondly recalling days when this train ran from Leeds to London. The quality of the look, feel and ride just feels miles ahead of anything else I have traveled on in the UK, as did the unrefurbished version when it ran as the White Rose service. Excluding HS1...

Hi. I am wanting to travel london (Clapham Junction) to Frome (SWT) on Thursday then Frome to Bude on Friday, then returning Bude to Frome the following week and then Frome to London. I might not do the stop in Frome on the way back to London and might use the GWR rather than SWT route back...

The fastest journey from Southport to London on journey planner has always been via Wigan. Checking for the coming week all routes are showing via Liverpool. What’s happened I wonder. Engineering, too many delay repay/general unreliability from the northern shambles on the Southport line so...

I think that makes sense? So the largest number of the smallest micofleets by total number of units in each microfleet. Has any TOC got more microfleets that are as small as TfW’s microfleets. Does TfW maybe have the largest number of train types in one TOC full stop?

I see Northern have a flash sale on for £1 fares. Good to see they have worked out a way to reduce their delay repay bill.

The National Rail App seems to have developed a really annoying new feature. It locks out details of journeys and says ‘No fares available’. 1st, this is not true. It is an actual lie, because it is totally valid to buy a ticket for that train (or the return portion of a ticket you already...

Hi - I am currently trying get north from Oxford to Southport, amid various late running trains and cancellations, and the online ticket sellers are all refusing to allow me to buy me a ticket. I get there might not be seat reservations but I have never had it where you can’t actually buy a...

There are lots of predictions by forum members on the threads of this site. Many often seem to be common sense and turn out to be right. Predictions of problems with feast or famine on rolling stock procurement for instance. But…. Are there any predictions or points you have made where you are...

Media reports that France will follow Germany’s lead of making available an ultra-cheap transport pass, for €49 per month for non-TGV trains. Will/should we in the UK ever try such a thing and if not, why not...