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Odd question, asking here as general health care and this is the only forum site I visit these days... When I was in Junior school I remember the NHS smokefree getting cigarettes adverts being iconic. There was a phone line to call which could send a free DVD. I didn't smoke (good job at the...

Does anyone remember when the ticket office to platform 1 at Moor Street shut, and maybe further what caused it to shut? (The one to the left as you use the side entrance). I'm sure I have a few vague childhood memories of my mother occasionally using it while I was with her in the...

Anyone else a fan? Sainsbury's local is my favourite... With many near train stations I may sometimes too often find myself popping in for something while out and about or on the way home :lol: Bagel and Giraffe roll are the favourites for me! I noticed the range in the one on Colmore Row by...

I'm hoping the answer is just ignorance on my behalf. I've been commuting on the Snow Hill lines daily for around 6 years. Pretty consistently, during winter - short formations (& cancellations pre-covid when higher frequencies) get incredibly common. 5 coach trains substituted for 2 aren't...

Hello, would anyone have any thoughts on these two issues? I make my journeys with a 52 week Zone 1-4 nTrain season ticket (loaded onto a Swift card purchased via TfWM/Swift website). 1. Sometimes journeys I abandon journeys due to cancellations and take the bus at own expense instead (because...

Looking to travel to Birmingham International with a family member. With an nTrain Zones 1-4 season ticket an additional ticket from Marston Green to Birmingham International would be valid on the non-stopping trains. Would I be right in thinking in order to travel with someone else on a...

West Midlands Railway have posted quite detailed and insightful responses to frequently asked questions in their latest Snow Hill Line updates. However in response to "Why can’t we timetable more services and longer trains?", we learn the intention is not to return to the pre-covid 6 trains per...

Birmingham New Street has a Red, Green & Blue Zone to help identify where to go, to get to the correct platform segment to catch your train. This has been in place since the refurbished station opened, but has more recently been enhanced with departure boards gaining appropriately coloured LEDs...

This thread is meant for discussion of the pros/cons/techniques that biometric ticketing systems may introduce if they were ever to be introduced. I like the idea of Biometric Ticketing – the thought of not having to carry around a piece of paper or a charged phone to prove you’ve paid to...

Some point within the last year, it seems that automatic station announcements have been all together stopped (except in times of disruption) at some railway stations. Despite quite a few recent threads on annoying announcements, I haven't seen anything on this - I don't know if it's just...

Recently I've noticed there's been quite a lot of unofficial merchandise on eBay, selling items which mimic TOC designs. Been ongoing for some time but seems to have been a sudden increase especially in facemasks & badges. I was kinda wondering what peoples thoughts and feeling around them are...

I am trying to find out why the new Aventras will only make "most" services 6 coaches, and not all. To do this I wanted to work out how many diagrams there were on the Cross City line so I wasted lots of time and put together a spreadsheet. (there are lots of transposition errors, and the...

Is there any information/data available on the quantity of which train companies reject delay repay claims? After seeing this thread: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/delay-repay-declined-by-west-midlands-railway.185352/ and remembering my previous experience with WMR on making delay repay...

Does anyone know where I can find the old Network West Midlands Christmas song? It was an animated clip on their YouTube channel, however I can't find it and think it's been deleted. The lyrics were as follows: Three wise men of Perry Barr Take the train and leave the car. Don't sit in traffic...

What promotional automated announcements (appended to the end of a normal train announcement) in the style of "Change At _ For _" do you know exist? The 2 I know of are: Change at Kidderminster for the Severn Valley Railway Change at Birmingham Moor Street for New Street Station and The...

Question as per title, while reminiscing about New Street, came to mind. Can't think of anywhere which still does it - but surely there must be somewhere... Only place I can think of is VT platform entrances at Euston (assuming they still do that), but then again that isn't really a "line"...

I make a trip, pretty much everyday, which involves a trip between Moor Street and New Street. Could I make a delay reclaim for either trip <station> to New Street or Moor Street to <station> if one of those journeys was delayed? It being a zonal season ticket rather than point to point season...

Have been searching for ages... thought it would be a product of reasonably high demand... Everything seems to be for commercial use with minimum orders of 125, 250 and 500 costing £220 upwards.... (probably not including VAT...) I came across this on Amazon, but is no longer for sale...

Question based off reading this thread: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/validity-of-disabled-railcard.170430/ but felt it was a bit too off topic for there. Do disabled railcards exist as an incentivize to encourage rail travel or to accommodate reasonable adjustments? To state my...

Hi, Wondering if anyone could help me out. A while ago I brought a load of branded items from an ex-toc which I like to collect items from. However when I collected the items, a few other free things got put in. One of the items was a Chiltern Railways lanyard. It doesn't exactly look like it...