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Got this release today and have to wonder if we'll ever see 4G for the railway anytime soon? And if we did, would this be made available beyond mission critical work - extending to rail staff and revenue protection officers? Nokia to provide Korea Rail Network Authority with world's first LTE-R...

I'm flying from Gatwick at stupid o'clock on Thursday and returning same day. I'm trying to look up the best fares for what will be St Albans City to Gatwick. One thing I looked up was getting a return from Gatwick to St Albans off peak return, annual gold card - £16.95 I won't use the...

I was told earlier this week that Great Northern will be getting rid of its old Shere FASTticket TVMs in favour of new S&B machines. The new machines recently installed should also accept contactless card payments - which is a pretty significant improvement (and thus far, few people seem aware...

My user name includes the time of a train I used to get every day, which no longer exists after a timetable change some years ago!

So, the timetable shows first class in operation on the Abbey Line route. But there are no first class fares from St Albans to Watford Junction (so I assume only for those with seasons going beyond). What's more, I asked the driver who just said to me 'just use it, you'll be fine' while giving...

Spotted two new S&B machines yesterday with the new T/ branding, and a few observations: 1) Why can companies not make a machine that is properly accessible to ALL? People with disabilities are not all in wheelchairs. These new machines are so low you must crouch down to see the display...

Saw this tonight and it stood out as rather odd. Any idea why there was a third light attached?

Moderator's note: split from Class 707 - SWT I now have a number of USB-C devices, and I have mains chargers, a multi-charger, car charger and portable battery pack with USB-C ports. Yes, USB-A to USB-C doesn't give me the full 3A for rapid charging BUT there are different standards and it's...

At West Hampstead Thameslink I saw that there's one LED platform departure board that now has white text instead of yellow. It looked very bright. What's more, it appeared to be exactly the same as the others - so presumably it's just a straight forward swap of the LED panels? That got me...

It's illegal for a speedo to underread so they would be perfectly able to prosecute someone caught doing 31 if they wished, but the guidance to the police is not to - perhaps for the reason that it could be seen as unfair. PR wise it would be a nightmare, as I doubt most people would...

It's a shame there aren't more weekender type tickets, or even a promotion to allow a return to be extended to 9, 10 or 11am the next day on a Saturday or Sunday morning.

Just saw this on RTT and wondered what the error actually was? http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/G71897/2016/06/21/advanced

As a spin off from another thread I created yesterday, it seems I've opened up a can of worms on Twitter with varying advice/opinions on whether I can use a WGC (or Hatfield) to London Terminals to leave or arrive at Highbury & Islington station. Yesterday thanks to all the cancelled trains...

Got caught out twice today by RTT not reporting any trains cancelled, whereupon arriving at WGC and, later, Essex Road it turned out our trains were not running due to a shortage of train crew. In the case of Essex Road, I went down to the platform before realising the WGC services were...

Seems those projectors have been sold to London Underground now, but at least she says lifts and not elevators! https://youtu.be/CWNkTpSZYR4 CWNkTpSZYR4 Hope we won't find out that they've spent millions on these for all stations...

I've decided I need to attend an event in Birmingham tomorrow, so too late for any good advance tickets in first on Virgin so I'm going to opt to pay as little as possible instead. BR Fares suggests a £27.70 fare with my Gold Card, set by Chiltern so I assume I will go Hatfield to...

I heard yesterday that when Tesco moves away from Cheshunt, it has proposed plans for lots and lots of houses. I have no idea how or why the council would allow such a change of use as the area is marked down as industrial, and usually councils don't allow for offices to be knocked down and...

I didn't catch all of what this guy said as I had to get my phone out, and in the rush the first video was recorded portrait (sorry!) but he was going on about red signals, silly excuses for delays and more. He then started talking about Easter... Which is about where I started recording...

Was there ever a first class service to Moorgate in all of its years of service? I ask because I noticed there's a first class fare from Finsbury Park to Essex Road (£14.90 return) and can't imagine why it exists when there's no possible way to travel first class. Fares to Essex Road, and...

Noticed today that at some point in the last week, someone has finally changed the sign on the Great Northern platforms to say London Overground instead of North London Link. Can't believe it's taken that long to be honest! It's a vinyl sticker so you can still partially see through it. I...