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A group of 7 recently caught the train from l'Argentière-les-Écrins to Gap and back. The fare should have been close to 150€, but the small station was staffed, with a functioning ticket office. He was determined to find a better deal, and came up with a day group pass for départements 05 / 04 -...

We're staying in St.Ives, and went to Falmouth on the train yesterday, via St.Erth and Truro, and to Penzance today. Compared with the 10 minute journey at home from Leominster to Hereford, the journeys were incredibly cheap, reliable and pleasant. The St.Ives shuttle, every 30 minutes is such a...

France 2 television news is reporting this lunchtime that Alstom is in talks to take over Bombardier's rail interests. No great detail so far. Hope this is the correct place to post this; it will affect Derby as well, of course. Link to a La Tribune article...

I went to Leominster station today to book two return tickets to Dublin from Craven Arms. National Rail enquiries had given me: Thursday 9th January 2020, 09.46 out, changing in Shrewsbury, ferry at 14.00, arrive Dublin 17.15. Fine. No problem. Can be booked. However, the return, Tuesday 14th...

I asked it for trains from Leominster to Grangetown, Cardiff. Easy. Get a train from Leominster to Central and change. Except the app doesn't shew that at all. First suggestion: 10h16 Leominster to Hereford. Change. 10h39 Hereford to Worcester Foregate St.. Change. 12h00 Worcester Foregate to...

I haven't seen this interesting snippet mentioned anywhere: apologies if it has. It was posted on Twitter by someone called Steven Swinford: Steven Swinford‏Compte certifié @Steven_Swinford "Cabinet rail misery update: Their journey back from Newcastle yesterday, which should have taken just...

If this is in the wrong section, please move it to the appropriate place. With standard electrification in the UK running into so many problems, despite our european friends having managed to get it done over the years, I was wondering what new technologies might promise us as alternatives...

I couldn't find anything on here about this. Reported on the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39579538 The link includes a video report. And from Wikipedia (in German): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locomore https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens_ES64U2 An interesting development in...

I'm not sure this is the right place for this post, but anyway ... I met my wife off the 16.40 Holyhead train at Leominster yesterday. It was formed of a 2 car 175, with 175003 on the front. She had got on at Newport. It was 15 minutes late arriving at Leominster and was going to be...

3 years on from the Brétigny accident, France 2 did a longish report on the state of French track, maintenance (or lack of it) and the 735xx diesel units which apparently keep disappearing from track circuits (déshuntage), meaning the signallers don't know where the unit is and/or it failing to...

I heard this on French radio yesterday. Here's a link to a short report on the franceinfo: website: http://www.francetvinfo.fr/economie/transports/la-fin-du-site-de-production-d-alstom-a-belfort-tout-un-symbole_1814619.html#xtor=AL-85 Google translate renders it as:

The news on French TV and radio is that Alstom has won a big TGV order for the New York - Washington route. The units are to be built by Alstom in the US, to the chagrin of the Belfort factory. France Inter last night said that the trains would be "business class" and first class only...

There's an interesting item on the French 13.00 news today (France 2). The first train including 8 wagons from China arrived in Lyon this morning. They hope to have up to 3 trains a week soon, each returning with French good for export to China. The link to today's news isn't up yet, but you'll...

There's an exclusive in Le Parisien saying that many of the SNCF's Intercité routes are under threat. It was also the headline story on the France 2 TV news this lunchtime. http://www.leparisien.fr/economie/le-rapport-qui-menace-les-trains-intercites-26-05-2015-4803787.php Quotation to comply...

For those of you that understand French, the France 2 lunchtime news magazine section is running a daily 5 minute report on the Orient Express this week, and the SNCF's plan to set up a rival offering to the current operation. The link to the first episode (Monday 11th May) is here...

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/apr/28/network-rail-millions-flights-save-train-fares

... and the de-railment. There's a lot of coverage on French TV about it at the moment, with the finger being pointed at the SNCF for the lack of maintenance and failure to correct known faults. What I don't understand is why it's the SNCF getting it in the neck, when surely it is RFF which is...

The new Alstom TER units are too wide to fit the platforms of hundreds of older stations. The bill for "planing" the platforms so that they can fit runs to millions of €. SNCF and RFF are busy blaming each other, but, although SNCF placed the order, the specifications were supplied by RFF. Yet...