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The empty first class carriages must be beginning to hurt...

Article below from UTV in Northern Ireland. Also word in this morning's Northern Irish edition of the Daily Mirror that some pretty aggressive discounting will be on offer to lure passengers back onto the Belfast / Dublin Enterprise when it resumes service, hopefully in November. Doesn't...

Howdy. Could anyone tell me what coaching stock I'm likely to find for the various classes of sleeper accommodation on board the CityNightLine routes 'Aurora' (Copenhagen - Basel) and 'Hans Christian Andersen' (Copenhagen - Munch - Innsbruck)? I know they have some single level and some split...

Well. Not much left to write in the post, the title says it all :D Passengers with a valid flight ticket or itinerary on any flight departing from or arriving at Prestwick International Airport can claim a 50% discount on an Anytime Single fare between the airport and any station in Scotland...

Via the IRN Irish Railway News forum, some photographs of Newry's new railway station, on the Belfast/Portadown/Dublin line. http://irnirishrailwaynews.yuku.com/topic/1616 This is what can happen when a state-owned public transport operator commissions an architect, rather than craning in an...

Despite a new and "improved" timetable following major track improvements between Belfast and Coleraine, NI Railways have actually added 45 minutes to the morning train from Belfast to L'Derry ! The new timetable: http://www.nirailways.co.uk/future/NIR_3_O.asp

This just in; would have been a 158 involved, less than a mile from Georgemas Junction. This is an unguarded crossing with lights. At a Community Council meeting in January 2009 a local resident reported that on one occasion recently he had ventured across the line while a train approached...

In Belfast last week, caught a glimpse of this (new?) advert on a bus stop for Coca Cola, depicting a miniature pixelated version of the city in the style of SimCity. The geography is so way off it's not worth complaining about... ...but the details are amusing. Obviously designed by...

Hello again. Is it possible anywhere to check the recorded arrival time of a delayed train from a few weeks ago? Namely the time that the 1200 EDI-LGX arrived at PBO on 3 September 2009. I made a Delay-Repay claim, but NXEC have replied that the train arrived a few minutes earlier that I...

NXEC have launched an online promo from now until the end of the week: 20% off all NXEC Advance fares and 10% off railcards purchased through their website. You can combine the 20% discount with any railcard discount. Book online at...

Caught the 1630 Euston - Glasgow Central Pendolino last night, and boy did it flyyyyyy.... we arrived in Glasgow Central at 2033, 7 minutes early, having left Preston about a minute late. Since this seems (in my experience, seeing it arrive into GLC) to happen on a fairly regular basis, is it...

I've put this question to ScotRail customer services, and await their reply, but can anyone tell me why ScotRail haven't followed in the footsteps of other UK TOCs and started to offer through ticketing between Caledonian Sleeper services and European stations? Virgin and NXEC already sell...

Coming up in the next few minutes (some time between 12:45 - 13:00) today on BBC Radio 4's "You and Yours" a feature 'Is it the end of the line for overnight sleeper trains?' ... no further info trailed, no idea the source, perhaps non-news, perhaps not.

I have another trip down south coming up shortly, which will be rail from GLC to PBO and then the X1 (Peterborough - Wisbeach - King's Lynn - Norwich - Great Yarmouth) First Eastern Counties bus. It's been a year or two since this route was 'downgraded' from Plaxton bodied coaches to WrightBus...

The following news report was published on Thursday, reporting that police have closed their investigation into another fatal accident between a car and an Amtrak train, this time in Wayne County, Detroit. In this instance the teenaged driver and four of his friends were killed when he swerved...

And you thought our gauges were too tight for double-deck trains. Footage from the British Pathé archive: http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=47988 and info on the Bulleid Double Decker society... http://dart75.tripod.com/bdds.htm Perhaps an aspiration for a 21st century...

Hello. We picked up yesterday's Scotsman for the first half of the password needed to book discounted NXEC tickets, but now haven't been able to find a copy of Scotland on Sunday for the second part. Has anyone seen or got it? Many thanks

As mentioned by Csalem in the Photography thread, the Malahide viaduct in County Dublin has partially collapsed, just minutes after a Ballbriggan - Dublin Connolly train passed over it. The driver noticed the opposite track was subsiding and buckling yesterday evening and the line was...

Following its acquisition of the American corporation Laidlaw, First Group is to introduce the famous American brand 'Greyhound' to a network of intercity coaches here in the UK! http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/greyhound-bus-brand-set-for-uk-launch/3003453.article Announcement due tomorrow...

Could anyone provide an update on the number of 158s now refurbished and back in service with EMT? IIRC there are 25 in the fleet? Ta