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Recently a new simulator called Diesel Railcar Simulator was released and is 'A train driving simulation set in the British railways of the late 1960's, modelling the passenger diesel multiple units, or 'railcars', of the era.' as suggested by the title. I have picked it up myself at about...

During Easter weekend including the Friday and Monday it appears that Virgin are diverting Birmingham to Scotland services via Shrewsbury and Whitchurch as well as Bescot, the services are pick up only towards BHI and set down only towards Scotland at Shrewsbury. I believe this is because of the...

I'm planning on doing a 7 day ALR in June/July and to help lower the cost of it I have multiple travel vouchers I want to use to pay for part of it but some of these expire in March. Is it possible to buy the ALR in March so I can use my travel vouchers for them? If not when's the earliest I can...

From Crewe there is two services to London with VT a few minutes apart. One from Manchester and one from Liverpool. I'm interested to know which one tends to be busier on a Saturday? For example the 07:20 is a Liverpool to Euston service and the 07:29 is a Manchester to Euston service. Which...

Tomorrow I am going to Scotland on a day trip to cover some lines up there and plan on using the bus occasionally to get between stations but I'm unsure what bus operators and routes I am allowed to use with this ticket as the SPT website isn't very clear. First I plan on getting the 10:48 GLC...

Not sure if anyone have heard of Crosstie Studios before but they are currently building a train simulator using the Unreal 4 game engine. They are very community based and will be releasing a demo sometime in the future. Looks like it could be something interesting. http://crosstiestudios.com/

On Saturday I'm in Cornwall using the Ride Cornwall Ranger and I have an advanced train booked from Plymouth to Birmingham New Street (Splitting the ticket at Bristol Temple Meads) but I during the day ranger I will be doing the Par to Newquay branch and the return service from Newquay gives me...

I asked my Dad to buy me the Northern Rail day ranger promotion ticket from Crewe ticket office today because of having to buy 3 days in advanced but when he got home he said it cost £6 and not £10? The ticket also says 'Northern Family & Friends' when I just filled in 1 adult, 0 child tickets...

I have got work experience later this year and would like to try and get something on the railways. I have already phoned up Network Rail to see if they do anything but I was told I would need to know someone locally who works for them but unfortunately I don't know anyone who does. My main...

Does anyone know where I can find freight headcodes (preferably free)? RTT only shows fake codes also does anyone know the headcode for this train? http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/B12697/2015/01/18/advanced

Has anyone played the American train simulator called Run8? The features and physics look interesting as well as the multiplayer. Its $40 (£24) for the base game with a 140 mile route. I'm not normally into foreign railways but this simulator looks good. If anyone has it then I would love to...

Does anyone know which East Coast services which are diverted via Carlisle on October 18th will be 91+DVTs so they will be dragged by a class 67?

On Saturday 19th July I was on the 12:30 London Liverpool Street to Great Yarmouth service and I was travelling on a 1st class advanced ticket through to Great Yarmouth but when leaving Ipswich there was an announcement stating the train would terminate at Norwich and we would have to catch a...

Im making a First Class trip from London Liverpool Street to Great Yarmouth on the 12:30 in July on a Saturday and would like to know what they offer in First Class.

Has an Arriva CrossCountry HST ever visited Manchester? Are they allowed to go on services to Manchester instead of Voyagers?

Just seen this on UKRailtours but cant find any information about the open day on Saturday 13 September 2014 itself? Railtour link: http://www.ukrailtours.com/tourshow.asp?tourtype=excursion_trains&tourfile=140913_DERBY_175_OPEN_DAY_AT_ETCHES_PARK.txt

I have wanted to see how fast i'm going whilst on the train out of interest but i'm not sure what app to use from the Apple App Store. Does anyone know what apps are best? Best free apps? Best paid for apps?

On Friday 18th April I cought the 06:52 Virgin Service from Crewe to Euston getting in at 08:46, I keep track of my journeys on railmiles so I typed everything in then did HeadCode search but the train didnt come up so I went onto both RTT and OTT to find the headcode and details but could not...

Is there any good places to eat near Penzance rail station at about 8am? Also it would have to be a place that would accept a under 16.

I have a Sulzer engine plate which I bought off Ebay but it has some white paint on the sides, whats the best way to remove this? Will put a photo up later.