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During a business trip to Birmingham in July, I have decided to spend a weekday evening hopping down the Trent Valley, and am looking for the best way to ticket this, ideally flexibly, to include an hour or so at each of Rugeley Trent Valley, Tamworth and Nuneaton. The curves at Rugeley, and...

I must say this is something I've never seen before. Filling the units is a must as the empty concourse attracts all sorts of characters, but is this really the best they can do? There is a lot of criticism locally, including the local MP, and word that the units are empty because tenants have...

It's not active yesterday or today, but a booked path exists for 6S00 Ernesettle MOD GBRf to Glen Douglas MOD GBRf departing at 1012, running via Exeter, Bristol, Hereford, Shrewsbury, Acton Bridge, Settle, Carlisle, Carstairs, Mossend and Helensburgh Upper, arriving at 0850 the following day...

GBRX has a new website and a new "GBRX Communications" Youtube channel. I am the third ever viewer of the "Digital Railway Masterplan" which is mainly a talking head interview with the MD, Toufic Machnouk, who seems to have a PhD in management waffle. And there is a prospectus which gives an...

In early July I am booked onto 2H92 15:18 Leeds to Carlisle on a Tuesday afternoon and looking forward to ticking off the S&C line, but I am also looking to maximise the trip. I have reviewed the closed thread https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/settle-carlisle-line.264982/ but still have some...

Hello all I am familiar with the blue free terminal transfer tickets for use on Heathrow Express between Heathrow Central (HXX) and Heathrow Terminal 5 (HWV) and the option to tap in and out at the barriers using a contactless card. I will most likely arrive at HXX on an Elizabeth Line T4...

I just boarded 1D02 at Stevenage heading for Leeds, a 5 car 801. I have a reserved seat in coach A, which is currently showing about 80% “may be reserved later” and there are about four other passengers in the coach. I preferred another seat and given that this is probably a popular commuter...

This has been done a few times but nothing recent or specific to Crewe. I'd imagine Crewe to be the station most at ease with well-behaved enthusiasts and I've spent an evening there before alongside at least a dozen spotters who looked to have no intention whatsoever of boarding a train. Will...

I have spent thousands of pounds with Trainsplit over the years and this is the first time I am in dispute with them. They are charging a fee when I believe I am entitled to a full refund due to partial abandonment. Journey was Newcastle NCL - Kings Cross KGX - St Pancras STP - Farringdon ZFD...

I am soon booked between Cardiff and Shrewsbury in First Class on the 17:14 to Holyhead, Premier Service. Looking forward to dinner and a bottle of wine on board and would be very disappointed should I be delayed or (as seems very unlikely) it be subbed by a 197. I'm connecting from the...

In a couple of weeks I have an advance single from Meldreth to Grateley SWR & Connections as part of a longer Trainsplit itinerary. Obviously, I have a paper ticket with a Maltese cross. As I am connecting on Great Northern and Thameslink I have mandatory reservation coupons as far as...

Mod note: moved from Avanti not enforcing Network Railcard minimum fare correctly - will the tickets valid? The ticket being flexible means that if you returned on it on the Sunday, for example, the £12.40 fare would be perfectly uncontroversially correct. Although you've indicated you'd...

On Sunday I will travel to Kings Cross from Royston. I hold a Super Off Peak Single with NSE discount priced £12.45. The paper ticket I hold does not state GN&TL only, it points to restrictions FB which solely relate to its non-validity on weekdays. BR Fares uses the term "Super off peak for...

Haven't seen this posted elsewhere. Line closure and replacement of the Downs Park Road overbridge north of Hackney Downs station for 16 days between Saturday 20th July and Sunday 6th August...

A couple of weeks ago I booked an Anytime Day Return for a visit to London this Wednesday, expecting a simple out and back from Whittlesford to South Kensington via Liverpool St. I prebook for expenses purposes. Using Trainsplit I entered a nominal destination of Paddington to get issued a...

I have found a very good value advance fare using Chiltern and connections (quite extensive connections at both ends in fact!). The origin is Coventry and the itinerary is via Birmingham International (BHI), Birmingham New Street, a short walk, Birmingham Moor Street, then Marylebone and...

Two new services have been added to the December 2022 easement list that I have not seen flagged here. Sorry if it is covered elsewhere. The current download of the list of easements from the National Rail website is the May 2022 list, which led me to query Trainsplit on the application of the...

Hi All, wondering what the Forum's view is here. I am planning a one way journey from Foxton to Heathrow Terminal 5 via Thameslink and Elizabeth Line on a Wednesday afternoon in November, using a Network Railcard. All the conventional retailers will sell me an Anytime Day Single with NSE...

As above really, I am looking to deepen my understanding of the routes I take, and am looking for a readable atlas to dip into to accompany any journey. I travel mainly in the South East, Anglia and London but throughout England, and as I am about to take the Caledonian Sleeper I am interested...

Mods note - split from here. Expect Boris to have a VIP Mk 5 set in service with matching Class 68 in a gaudy union flag based livery by Christmas! It's so Boris.