Our new ticketing site is now live! Using either this or the original site (both powered by TrainSplit) helps support the running of the forum with every ticket purchase! Find out more and ask any questions/give us feedback in this thread!
I wanted times to get from Kings Cross to Heathrow terminal 5. I wanted to go on the Elizabeth line, to try it out. It was quite difficult to get it as an itinerary which used the Elizabeth Line.
From National Rail only gives itineraries with the Heathrow Express, even though there is an option...
The TGV from Lille to Avignon is fast and you can do it for a reasonable price with advanced tickets. Avignon TGV has trains in lots of directions. I stayed in a hotel near there and carried on to a work meeting in Nice, which ends up trundling along the coast. Its pretty, but not fast. Avignon...
What do you want? Views, places, traction, countryside, cities? Do you want to book tickets in advance, or have an Interrail ticket and be flexible?
Sleepers are fun, but you don't see the views if its dark and you're asleep.
There is a nice walk from Berney Arms to Great Yarmouth, which takes you past Great Yarmouth carriage sidings
This is a Geoff Marshall about the walk from Berney Arms
Light drizzle doesn't get picked up by rain radar. However, for heavier rain, I find the Accuweather Minutecast pretty good for predictions of the next hour or two. The...
This walk is about 5 miles and takes you past Peacocks tea rooms, Potters, Toppings (which is open 8.30-6.30pm 7 days a week and offers free hot drinks) and the Cathedral (if you had to pick one tour of that, I would do the one of the Octagon tower).
I had a nice, reasonably priced breakfast at the Beach Diner at Clacton-on-Sea.
The southern end of the beach at Felixstowe is worth a walk, for the Martello tower and chance to get fairly close to some really big container ships like this https://goo.gl/maps/9KWQc1Ss67C6dW1u7
If you go...
I buy CDs occasionally, typically from Music Magpie, and then rip them to MP3 files. Exact Audio Copy does this well. I had to buy a £15 USB DVD drive to do this.
I even listen to some of them as my daughter's car is from 2013 and the stereo doesn't play MP3s.
I buy DVDs and Blurays for things...
I don't know, but this thread started with a report from May 2022 on the project being put on hold:
https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/ely-upgrade-under-threat.233815/
There have been a few other threads
https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/alternative-plans-for-ely-upgrade-work.233873/...