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I'll admit I've never been on a sleeper train so have no idea, but I feel someone needs to explain this concept of turning a bed around to me. I've never done this at home, if you wanted to you'd just put the pillows at the other end.

One of the worst must be Norwood Junction. Since London Overground and Thameslink 2000 were introduced all stations from New Cross Gate to Norwood Junction lost their East Croydon services, so anyone wanting to go to East Croydon, Gatwick Airport or anywhere further south will be told by journey...

What crowd are you busting? Who are all these people who want to go between Birmingham and London? Why does speeding up their journey matter? Even more than ever nobody can explain why we're building HS2 other than some "west coast mainline full Milton Keynes freight" nonsense. It should have...

Ah, my apologies!

I may be missing something, but I can't think of any scenario where this is silly.

What's wrong with "small fleet" and "large fleet"?

I would doubt this. Delay repay will be a pretty insignificant amount of money. Significant sometimes to the individual, and insignificant to The Railway.

It's unusual not to see cleaning staff with a big bin bag on Avanti trains, particularly if you're nearing the terminus of a journey.

I'd hope that remains the current pattern with a Stafford stop rather than revert back to fast Crewe-Milton Keynes. Stafford gives a useful connection into Cross Country for Chester and North Wales.

Really, victim blaming is rarely a good look. What do you mean by "industry" out of interest?

I'd just put the Wrexham example down to one or more of incompetence, bravado, or pragmatism.

I don't think delay repay would be a consideration for anyone writing a timetable. It's a miniscule cost. Rather I'd expect allowances are added to make a timetable less likely to be unworkable. We do have people who do this job for a living on here, so I'll defer to them, but as ever I think...

Yes, and this is also silly.

I was wondering about this Teutonic numbering system, so had a bit of a search. Munich (looks to be 3 stations in 1): platforms 1-17 Hamburg: platforms 1-14 Mannheim: platforms 1-12 Hamburg and Mannheim are missing some numbers in the middle for unplatformed tracks. Imagine my disappointment...

Thankfully the railway is solving this problem with optically scanned tickets which don't open the gates instead.

Because people have experienced other ticket gates retaining their tickets.

Hmm. National Rail Enquiries site doesn't go to 11 December yet, but searching for Carlisle to Tring on 4 December finds a cheap advance single fare for the 18:46, but when it redirects to the Avanti booking site it gives an error. How annoying!

Appears so. Put the via points in on Trainsplit and it offers this ticket.

I can't seem to find an 18:46 from Carlisle, there is an 18:51 though?