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I am planning to take a party of 29 senior citizens on a sightseeing trip on a train between LPG and LLJ departing around 4:30pm on Friday 18th September. I understand LPG has a short platform and we all may have to board through one or two doors. Does anyone know how full the train might be...

Could I suggest that Rush Hour Cycle Restrictions on trains be temporarily eased? if we do have to socially distance on trains, why not allow bicycles on trains? Round the world cities, including London, are taking the unique opportunity of low car traffic volumes to extend their cycle lane...

Some foreign friends are planning to travel from Euston to Manchester on Sunday morning 16th June. I am proud of our railways but I am surprised to see that the 0820 departure is shown as taking 2 hours 40 minutes to complete the journey. Why so long? Is it routing via Birmingham? Are they using...

I was a passenger on last night's 1M16 the 2044 Inverness to London Caledonian Sleeper It started well, exactly on time, but 20 minutes into the journey when I had just finished my excellent cheese and biscuits - it all suddenly ground to a halt. We passengers were told this was due to an...

Should rail decide the location of a NEW AIRPORT ? My background is that I am an airline pilot approaching retirement. I grew up along-side the East Coast mainline and remember my headmaster taking the class to see the last scheduled steam train passing through Hitchin. It seemed to be a sad...

I would like to travel from London to Cornwall in the early hours of Monday 13th August. Various websites suggest that there is a train from Paddington to Bristol at 0230. They also show a 0524 train from Bristol to Cornwall. However when I check the First Great Western on-line timetables, I...

Recently I was travelling on a flight out of Albuquerque, New Mexico when I spotted an oval of railway track unexpectedly plonked down in the desert. It looked very like a simple layout of Hornby model railway track with some short sidings. Later I searched for it on Google maps satellite...

There have been a number of threads where members have been asked to say which closed railway lines they think should be reopened. One thing that the replies often did not give was what the new train service would look like in terms of timings. To get things stated I give my own FANTASY...

The BBC is now reporting that Japanese Railways have announced that they are unable to locate two trains near the city of Sendai following a 30ft high tsunami hitting the Japanese East Coast Mainline. In the December 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami "The Queen of the Sea" express was destroyed while...

In 'Red for Danger' L.T.C. Rolt draws attention to the excellent safety record of the Great Western Railway and suggests it was due to the 'esprit de corps' of its people. Organisational sociologists are becoming very interested in the safety cultures of different companies in the same...