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The Wirral Globe is reporting that RMT members at Merseyrail are planning to take strike action, which will affect travel to the Open Golf tournament in Birkdale. I seem to remember there was strike action on a previous occasion the Golf was held at Birkdale, and the limited service that did...

From Peter Spokes of the 400 Series Preservation Group on X: https://x.com/realPeterSpokes/status/2035349573011480656?s=20 Good to see another EMU preserved, although I do feel old seeing trains from the 1990s going into preservation. Hopefully the East Kent Railway can complete its expansion...

I'm intrigued by this tour of the Berlin U-Bahn that seems to use a battery loco and open wagons with seats so passengers can see details of the tunnels. https://www.bvg.de/en/service-and-support/discover-berlin/u-bahn-convertible The route plan shows the train traversing lines U2, U7, U8 and...

Liverpool City Region has published a review into the severe disruption which occurred on Merseyrail on the morning of 9th January. From around 7.30am that day, trains encountered difficulties due to freezing conditions causing a sudden build up of ice on the 3rd rail, resulting in multiple...

Prompted by Scotrail posting on their social media yesterday about the fifth anniversary of the 314 withdrawal, and also all the news about a 507 getting preserved. What happened to the 314 that was converted to a Hydrogen test train and reclassified as a 614? The last I heard, the trial at the...

From 25th August the end points of journeys on Merseyrail Northern Line services were swapped around. Southport-Hunts Cross services became Southport-Liverpool Central, with Ormskirk-Liverpool Central services extended to Hunts Cross instead. When this was announced it was suggested this was...

Clacton Express Group posted this update on their facebook page yesterday:- A very sad situation, especially as the group by all accounts seem to have worked very hard to preserve and commence restoration work on the unit. I think they were working on it up until quite recently, despite the...

There will be no Merseyrail services at all on the three days of strike action. On 22 and 24 June services will start later, at approximately 0700, with rail replacement buses before then. https://www.merseyrail.org/plan-your-journey/network-rail-strike-action.aspx

It seems Merseyrail have quietly updated their website to state that it is now possible to collect tickets booked online from their stations. (source: Merseyrail.org) A reaction to recent bad press (or the multiple threads on this forum? :smile:) Shame I don’t have any trips planned at the...

I hope this is of interest to some people. A friend has managed to get his hands on the Regional Railways 1992 corporate identity manual. He has transcribed the whole thing into HTML format and put it online at http://www.regional-railways.co.uk/ It contains lots of detail of how the new style...

Looking at a little trip from Amsterdam to Berlin on the direct IC train which takes about 6 hours. Searching for trains on 18th June, although the trains are present in the journey planner and are open for reservation, there seem to be no advance purchase Sparpreis tickets available, only the...

Threads in the past have discussed Merseyrail's Day Saver ticket, which is only 10p cheaper than the equivalent Merseyside Saveaway but with much less validity. Along the same theme, I noticed today that Merseyrail has introduced the Merseyrail Only Railpass, which is only valid on the Northern...

Apologies if this is a frequently asked question, but... I claimed Delay Repay from Northern for a journey a friend and I made together. We decided to go for the option of a free ticket rather than vouchers or monetary compensation. Two tickets have duly arrived, but they both have my name...

While looking up train times between Liverpool Lime Street and Liverpool South Parkway the other day, I noticed that Northern offer an Advance fare for this journey for £1.50 single. I thought this was unusual, to offer an Advance ticket on such a short journey (I think it's about five miles)...

Interesting report from the Liverpool Echo (link to article):- Reopening St James is something that a lot of people in the area have been campaigning for. It would serve the rapidly gentrifying Baltic Triangle area, and both the Anglican Cathedral and the M&S Bank Arena are within walking...

Was surprised to see Merseyrail announce this on their twitter feed today: Each tour accommodates just 4 people, and there are four tours scheduled at the moment, so only sixteen lucky people will get to go on this. The price tag is £125(!) per person for a tour lasting a little over four...

One regular criticism of Merseyrail round these parts is that they are steadfastly old-fashioned in the area of ticket purchase - generally you are expected to buy from a ticket office or a TVM (if available). No mobile tickets, no TOD collection of online bookings and a very limited range of...

Looking for options to connect with Eurostar in connection with a possible European trip in September or October (probably using a DB Sparpreis from London). BRFares says that a Euro High Saver single from Liverpool Stations to London International (CIV) exists, price £44.80. Arrival at Euston...

Man in Seat 61 just tweeted: Citing this blog post (in German) which seems to blame a systems change at Eurostar from 10th November. No Flexpreis (flexible fare) or Sparpreis (advance, booked train only) will be available between London and stations on the DB network from that date. Eurostar...

(There is already a long Halton Curve thread in the Infrastructure & Stations subforum, however my post relates specifically to fares and ticketing rather than the infrastructure, so I hope starting a new thread here is OK) I found an article on Cheshire Live about the new Transport for Wales...