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It's rare that I criticize Virgin Trains, but here goes... EAST COAST - KING's CROSS: The current First Class lounge at King's Cross is absolutely excellent. It's off the York Way entrance to the station. To me it looks like an office building (well, it is an office building, temporarily...

After recently going on a First Class ALR, on which I experienced the First Class product on every TOC, I think I am in a good position to rate how good each one is! :) (Before everyone starts arguing this is only my opinion - you are free to differ!) This excludes airport shuttle TOC's and...

NOTE: I'm creating a lot of threads because I have many questions after going on an ALR! :) Do FGW have 2, 2.5 or 3 First Class carriages on their HST's? It always seems to vary, and I have no idea how many different formations they have. Does anyone know? Also, what's so bad about Standard...

After recently going on a First Class ALR, I can confidently say that Southeastern have THE WORST First Class of ANY TOC. (I know consider EMT to be very good!) There is no partition, the seats are identical, there is no extra legroom, the tables are often smaller, I could go on - why would...

NEW PENDOLINOS: As many of you will know from other threads, Virgin have now introduced a new "11-car" Pendolino - 390 054 - which is temporarily 9-car. Although I haven't been on this Pendolino yet, from what I've been told, I find it quite shocking that nothing has been changed (or shall...

Why is it that HST's are so loud? They are deafeningly loud when you stand next to them, particularly when they accelerate as they leave a station! Why is that so? Class 220/221/222's aren't so loud!

CrossCountry have introduced "Ten minute reservations." It allows you to make a seat reservation for CrossCountry services by text just ten minutes before travel, for both First and Standard Class. Certain seats on each train will say: "This seat MAY be reserved between..." (I noticed this...

Tomorrow (Saturday) I will make the following journey: Whitchurch [07:04] to Crewe [07:22] (ATW - Anytime ticket) Crewe [07:55] to London Euston [09:46] (VT - Advance ticket) If the [07:04] service from Whitchurch is delayed (or cancelled) so that I miss my connecting [07:55] train from...

£14 of Tesco Clubcard Vouchers can now be used to purchase a 16-25, Family & Friends or Senior Railcard - http://bitURL.net/tescorc. You are getting 2x the value (as a Railcard normally costs £28), whereas you can get 3x the value for general train travel booked through redspottedhanky...

London Midland will have their Summer Rail Sale starting Friday 8th July, for travel between 23rd July and 4th September. It is the usual 50% off Off-Peak tickets priced by London Midland. More details are available here: http://bitURL.net/railsale. There are no T&C's as of yet.

So, the Spring 2011 National Passenger Survey has been released. A summary is available here: http://www.passengerfocus.org.uk/news-and-publications/press-release.asp?dsid=5183. The full survey is available here: http://www.passengerfocus.org.uk/news-and-publications/document-search/...

A certain "Any Permitted" ticket has one route in the Routeing Guide which uses two maps. One map allows travel south to London Euston - the next map allows travel north from London St Pancras. The maps allow a different route without going via London, but would the "Any Permitted" also be...

Next month, the National Rail Enquiries journey planner will be updated to allow someone to plan a journey to/from a postcode. The journey planner will then give various journey options from different stations near that postcode (persumably so that you can find the cheapest option). It's a...

Virgin Trains will have a First Class Seat Sale starting Wednesday 29th June, for journeys between 23rd July and 4th September. Tickets will be available to book online, over the phone or at the station, allowing people to use Rail Travel Vouchers for part/full payment if they wish. The...

Lately I haven't seen any £1 or £3 Megatrain tickets available on the 18:52 Edinburgh to Birmingham service. The cheapest I've seen is £5. The tickets for Thursday August 4th were released just today and the only tickets available are £5 ones. The same applies for the 06:19 Birmingham to...

I've been reading the information about season ticket refunds on the NRE website, and find it slightly confusing and unclear. (http://bitURL.net/strefunds) It says that "usually" you are entitled to a refund on a weekly season ticket as long as 3 days are remaining. So, for example, if I...

If a ticket has a "not London" restriction, are you still able to use the "LONDON" route in the Routeing Guide, where you must look at the maps for the origin station to London, and then the maps for London to the destination station? The point I'm making is that even if the ticket says "not...

Following on my my post in the "takethetrain" thread, I have decided to create a diagram of what I believe a simple booking website should look like. Enclosed are two screenshots. One is for a peak-time Birmingham to Oxford journey, the other is for a peak-time Manchester to London journey...

Virgin are advertising two new vacancies today - a 40h/week RPO, and a never seem before 20h/week PRO! (http://bitURL.net/vtrpo and http://bitURL.net/vtpro) The job requirements of a PRO look remarkably similar to those of an RPO. I wonder what the job will involve... :lol:

An "Anytime Day" ticket I booked this Monday had the wrong date on it (yesterday's date instead of today's). Whether this error was caused by the website or by me or cannot say for certain, but I did not realise the error until I collected the tickets yesterday evening, and noticed "14JUN11"...