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Looking up some fares, I stumbled on this: Ewell West to Leatherhead with a senior railcard: Anytime single £3.10, Anytime return £6.25 Off-peak single £2.10, Offpeak return £4.25 The difference is small, but it means, whether going off-peak or peak, a return costs 5p more than 2 singles. That...

I was intending to travel today Euston-Chester, via: 12:46 LNWR Euston-Crewe (on a LNWR off-peak single), then 15:23 Crewe-Chester - on an advance ticket valid only on that train. The 12:46 from Euston has been cancelled, along with the 13:46, so I'm going to have to travel on the 14:46 and...

For travelling Harrow and Wealdstone to Queens Park on weekdays, trains are generally scheduled to take 22 minutes. But behind this, as far as I can make out from comparing the Lioness timetables and the live departure boards there's a (to my mind) odd difference between Lioness and Bakerloo...

I'm looking up fares to get from Abbey Wood to Folkestone central, for which I would expect the most sensible route would be Elizabeth line to Stratford, then HS1 to Folkestone - but there appears to be no ticket available for that. The tickets showing on Brfares.com...

I'm just looking at TfL's spreadsheet of out of station interchanges (available at https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/out-of-station-interchanges), and realised there are a few things not at all clear about it. Particular things that puzzle me: Woolwich to Woolwich Arsenal...

I've just seen reports that today a new cable car opens in Paris: The C1 running from Villeneuve-Saint-Georges to Créteil. Unlike the cable car in London which is mostly for tourists, this appears to be intended as an actual commuter transport: It apparently runs 4.5 km taking 18 minutes, and...

Does anyone know what the departure boards at Hither Green would display as the destination for trains that run via Bexley and Slade Green then back to London? (Asking because advising a friend who needs to get one of those trains from Hither Green, and don't want to give them incorrect advice...

It's been widely reported that work is starting to build 10 new Elizabeth line trains. There's a thread here discussion the actual construction and stock. I'm starting this thread to ask/discuss: Does anyone know (or can anyone make educated guesses) what the new trains would be used for? What...

Split from this thread: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/east-west-rail-ewr-consultation-updates-not-speculation.99892/page-215#post-7446860 That's an interesting idea. If I've understood you right, you're suggesting that once East-West-Rail is built to Cambridge, freight trains from...

Split from this thread: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/southern-suburban-services-slower-than-50-years-ago.290196/ This is a response to a question of why the Elizabeth line has frustratingly long dwell times of up to 60 seconds in the core, which must be considerably slowing the services...

Diesel and electric locomotives that pull passenger trains seem to be typically the length of a short carriage - so a pretty large space, which I assume is devoted entirely to the engine plus two driving cabs. But DMUs have been around since the 1950s and EMUs since the 1890s, and they rather...

TfL say they have now decided on a preferred route for the proposed DLR extension to Thamesmead and have opened a new consultation about it. They are proposing to build a ground level station at Beckton Riverside, alongside Armada Way, and an elevated Thamesmead station, which as far as I can...

I've just today resubmitted a delay repay claim to Thameslink that had been rejected. The reason I was claimed is that, on a journey from Bedford to St Pancras on 25 May, a rail replacement bus from Bedford to Harpenden took longer than advertised to make the journey, meaning I missed the...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/are-some-trains-too-long.287175/ Out of interest, what exactly is preventing Stansted Airport from taking longer trains to Norwich? The platform capacity looks like it ought to be adequate?

(Split from this thread: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/should-some-longer-rural-routes-be-sacrificed-and-the-money-spent-elsewhere-on-the-network.285461). The discussion has veered on to in what way rail services in Sussex are inadequate and need improving. I can't see that...

I'm curious about the design of Notttingham station: From the front, you enter what at first sight looks to be the main station building/concourse - except it turns out it isn't: It contains retail outlets, and you go through a wall into a separate 2nd area to an inner concourse, which is where...

Does anyone know.. does Farringdon have yellow contactless readers on the platforms to allow touching in/out when changing between Thameslink and the various TfL lines without exiting the station?

Moderator note - split from: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/is-the-9bn-lower-thames-road-crossing-approval-bad-news-for-rail.283755/ Are you referring to traffic levels across all of London, or traffic levels within the small area that the congestion charge applies to? (The latter is the...

The other day, I was looking that Earls Court platform departure boards, which consist of a fixed list of destinations, with an arrow that lights up to point to the destination of the next train. This setup that must date from many decades ago, although is still serviceable and useful. (Pic...

I was thinking, the proposed Bakerloo Line extension could be even more useful, if it was routed a little further South than currently proposed, so it could interchange with the Windrush line at Queens Road Peckham. This would replace the planned Old Kent Road station, so the route from Elephant...