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Hello. I'm wondering if someone can help me out with some German rail distances? In particular the following: - Bruxelles Midi to Koln - Koln to Hamm - Hamm to Berlin Hbf Many thanks!

So I travelled on Arriva Trains Wales's loco-hauled set along the North Wales Coast on Wednesday. Over the course of the journey I noticed an oddity about how they numbered their seats. The bay of four opposite me had seats numbered "33F, 34F, 33B, 34B" (I can't remember the exact numbers...

Off to London to see the sights with the missus this weekend. Given how rubbish my knowledge of Oyster fares system and the like is I wondered if someone with more knowledge can confirm the following: Two together railcards cannot be loaded onto Oyster cards, therefore meaning we could not...

Brake vans: are they still used? Leaving Crewe for London today I noticed what looked like a ballast train crawling along in the Basford Hall Yard with a battered brake van sporting faded Dutch livery attached to the end of it I assumed these vehicles were a thing of the past, confined only to...

The government is going to start a pilot where voters in some parts of England will be asked to provide ID to confirm their address in order to vote. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38440934 Currently (except for Northern Iteland) it is unlawful for polling station staff to request ID from voters...

This story got me thinking about baby change provision (or rather lack of) in UK station toilets today: http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/37621371/obama-signs-law-for-male-toilets-in-the-us-to-be-equipped-with-baby-change My experience travelling on the railways with baby (rapidly...

I hope someone familiar with public transport in Brussels can help me out a bit. I have a MOBIB basic card issued by STIB (the Brussels public transport company). I usually load a ten journey ticket (called JUMP) on this and use it to get around Brussels, primarily using the metro and tram. I...

For London 2012 it was the Royal Mail painting post boxes gold. This time London Midland are celebrating the success of TeamGB athletes by changing the colour of the station name boards (to gold of course) to honour local gold medal winning Olympians. It's a nice gesture I think.

I've been trying to book tickets for a few journeys I have coming up. These include Hellifield to Warrington, Wigan and London. I want to go via Lancaster as (in the case of Warrington and Wigan at least) it is clearly the most logical, quickest and shortest route. In the case of London, going...

This piece of 'advice' on another thread (the details for which are irrelevant for this thread) presents, to me at least, a conundrum: I get the argument (and even find it somewhat persuasive) that it may be preferable in terms of time, effort, stress and resources to resolve a matter...

Attached is a photo of what I will provisionally call an 'unpaid fares slot'. It can be found at one of the entrances to Chorleywood station. It's a metal post with a slot in it and there appears to be hooks for a receptacle of some kind. It obviously hasn't been used for quite a while. What...

Every now and then I come across a train which has a yellow sticker in the cab window with a big cross or "X" marked on it. See the attached photo for an example. What does it mean? Is it some sort of sign to to the depot to say the train has a fault and needs looking into? Or perhaps an...

There are a number of threads highlighting the impact of recent storms on the rail network. Indeed, the weather has been horrific of late and, if the damp starting seep through the walls on the second floor my house is anything to go by, even my house is starting to feel the effects of what...

I'm currently on the 07:55 from Crewe to Euston, enjoying a 10 minute timetabled wait at Rugby. So far we've enjoyed a 5 minute wait at Rugeley Trent Valley (timetabled for 9 minutes), and (going by station clocks) a 3 minute wait at Lichfield TV, where one would have sufficed. Now I'm not...

Hello, I wonder if anyone is able to help me with some French distances? Firstly, how far is it by rail between Paris Est and Strasbourg? (By TGV if that's relevant) Also, bit of a long shot, but can someone point me in the direction of a website or other online resources giving distances...

Earlier this year I had cause to claim delay repay from Great Northern for a journey between Cambridge and Crewe. However I was unable to use the online form as it claimed Crewe station didn't exist and wouldn't let me click the submit button until I selected a valid station (defined by Great...

I have become increasingly concerned over the last week or so about the tone of some debates on this forum. Anyone who has a legitimate criticism or complaint to make is immediately branded as anti-rail. Others feel there is a clear anti-staff bias. Some posters clearly don't have anything...

My first visit to Crewe in three weeks and things are changing. Firstly we have new ticket barriers in the subway which leads to the Weston Road car park. They don't seem operational yet but I'm guessing all one has to is flick a switch. There are four CCTV cameras protecting the gate line...

It's been mentioned in passing on a few threads now that changes to the National Rail Conditions of Carriage are in the pipeline. However information about the substance of such changes is surprisingly scant. A (rather superficial) search of this site and Google fails to shed any further light...

On my travels my tickets are often marked to indicate they've been used. The tools for the job vary. The biro is the most ubiquitous, followed by the fancy stamps which imprint the date and train number on the ticket. Then you get the hole punch, of which many variations exist. These range from...