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Lumo's service on both East and especially the West Coast is pretty poor. Trains arriving late, no toilets, delays, and the social media team on Twitter blocking accounts of people that complain. What can be done to improve Lumo's service?

I arrived into Euston a few days ago on a 730, I was in the front carriage and as we were coming to a stop the train started shaking. Looking at the tracks there were rumble strips on the tracks. What are these for? I haven't noticed them at any other London terminus!

Sometimes I get to the ticket barriers and the person there opens them straight up without even bothering to check my ticket. Or they just see a orange and white slip which could be something like a ticket receipt that would be completely invalid for travel and just move on. Once I was...

On 484s the guards might actually push their local door shut just to get the train going!

I've seen multiple videos on TikTok of people with authority on the railway talking about how some train enthusiasts are getting T-keys and other keys off of various sources and using them to commit illegal activities on the railway including breaking into cabs. This could possibly lead to...

For the last few days, a significant portion of the UK rail network has been disrupted. Trains were getting cancelled and delayed left and right. What is going on and what can be done to stop this ?

Since GWR did an update around March, the website and app have turned into a mess! I cannot log into my account because it thinks my email address is invalid. The only way in is resetting the password which only logs me in for one session and then I get logged out. My friend is trying to do a...

Platform 7 is also all covered with 'Do not alight here' signs.

When announcements are running on some GWR 165s, I hear loud buzzing noises coming over the speakers. Sometimes it's so loud it drowns out the announcement completely. What is this ?

Take an Intercity 225 for example, like the 1D25 1739 London Kings Cross to Bradford Forster Square. There's no coach A, it starts at B, and it skips other letters as well. Surely it should just go A, B, C, D, E, F, G? I've seen coach letters skipped on IETs as well, with both the LNER and GWR.

Here's one from Saturday 25/4 that got cancelled. I sometimes see them on the departure boards at Slough! Alt Text: RTT listing 1A98 19:40 Bishops Lydeard to London Paddington departing on 25.05.2026. It was cancelled due to a planning error (FH) 1777296407...

Recently I've seen a lot of disruption on the Great and South Western Mainlines. Almost every day for the last week there has been something going on.

Around 18h on 28/2, all the lifts on the DLR network were taken out of service because of a communication failure. All of them! Now what could possibly have gone wrong to take ALL the lifts down? 1772445148 And the lifts haven't recovered yet! Most of the lifts are still broken!

Basically any possible improvements to the Underground to make it better, more frequent, more reliable, and just better!

Asking for a friend on Twitter.

With the 175s going to GWR, let's hope we don't have a repeat of the problem that caused the 175s to randomly light on fire.

After this post I made, what are some other ways to improve ticket machines to make them more usable?

It would make it easier and quicker to use the ticket machine and avoid mishaps with the wrong station. For example, instead of typing Henley-on-Thames, we could type HOT. Instead of typing Burnham (Buckinghamshire), we could type BNM. Instead of typing London Paddington, we could type PAD...

What would happen if I tried to board a DLR train on platform 10 (and didn't get kicked back off), where would I go? And can Platform 10 be used for departures if Platform 9 is closed?

What would happen if I (tried to) get off at a pickup only stop or get on at a dropoff only stop?