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It is getting increasingly frustrating to travel with a disabled person at the moment. Some of the stations I am going to highlight below are fairly new so the problem is purely financial as at design stage it was chosen to only have a single. Lift. Journey Welwyn Garden City - London Bridge...

Was thinking again tonight after another evening of GN being unable to restore the service. Would AI be able to help. People say that controllers often can’t think of every scenario when a crisis situation happens. That is fair I am sure a controller wouldn’t chose to skip stop a service when it...

This train will have lots of seats tonight. Makes me wonder if it was real how far outside Lincoln Central the last coach would be. The source of the photo is from the East Midlands trains website. I won’t share the link as it will probably be gone soon. The post states that an East Midlands...

Just saw an interesting point from this thread. https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/major-disruption-through-retford-16-04-2026-and-residual-effects-over-following-days.301187/page-7#post-7755872 I normally travel with 2x super-off peak singles (which I would have purchased a return for the...

Yesterday I attempted to make a journey with a Wheelchair user from London Bridge- Welwyn Garden City. The first part of the problem I probably should have known about in advance. The lifts from the concourse to Platform 4&5 were not working. (Although as the user asked how would they know it...

Recently I have seen a number of threads on this forum where people are asking for advice following contact with a TOC about irregularities on ticketing purchases that id ringing alarm bells. In some cases the user has admitted to dough nutting (not having a ticket for the entire journey). I...

Mrs Unit and myself are currently heading to Edinburgh. Mrs Unit is in a wheelchair (but can get out and do limited walking). We booked assisted travel and specified all this with LNER. To be fair at Kings Cross station all was brilliant, met at the station taken to the train before general...

Just starting a new thread as this one is a little off topic. https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/lack-of-train-crew-on-great-northern.276721/page-12#post-7205132 I see many issues that I just can’t understand happening regularly. the diagrams see to be over complex. For example 0832 Welwyn...

I may be a cynic, but I have noticed that lots of services on LNER show up with no quota available, when going to other stations they seem to have lots of quota, Examples recently Welwyn Garden City - Edinburgh limited from Welwyn Garden City but lots from Stevenage. Likewise Market Rasen is...

Does anyone have a full list of this, so I can work out how to avoid them? I see sadly 2C13 is now a 700 (0726 Cambridge- London Kings Cross). I had got it down to a fine art last timetable. I know some of these will convert back once the 379s enter service so will probably be more 700s to...

I see a 180 in the sidings near Welwyn Garden City station today. normally when they are there they are failed? however is this set getting used for testing the signalling? Trying to be positive rather than the normal reason. The route is closed but I have seen trains running to / from...

Just wondering what the policy versus delay repay, as in some situations it is better to just give up the journey rather then wait for a connecting train. A couple of examples, Rural trains when you have missed the connection from the mainline, you can sometimes need to wait 2 hours until the...

We have had a number of discussions recently about LNER fare policy. The London - Newcastle / Edinburgh trail seems to have very few winners. Then the policy of not selling tickets to allow people to stand on their services is undesirable. This is a concern to me. I will of course buy the...

We probably have had a number of threads, but is there anything we can do to stop some of the minor routes becoming overwhelmed when the ECML is closed. Looking at some big flows - this was the best route offer. Edinburgh - London, via West Coast various ways Newcastle - London, Train to...

Just splitting from this thread, I see one of the challenges on the ECML is balacing speeds and connectivity. Recent re-casts have provided challenges for direct services between local stations such as Newark - Retford. To avoid filling up this tread...

We have a couple of threads about faster services to Leeds / Edinburgh from London. But as the original timetable covered all operators, I was just wondering if we had an consulations about the rest of them. For example EMR was planning to remodel a lots of their routes to included. Grimsby -...

Just building onto this thread, https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/changing-from-tl-to-el-at-farringdon-tap.259471/#post-6543705 Since the arrival of Thameslink / EL and the ability to travel directly to many more destinations, some interesting situations have arisen.I was just wondering if...

Just looking for some guidance on how to tackle this refund, On Monday 24th July I was due to take a journey from Welwyn Garden City - Market Rasen. Booked on the 0958 from Welwyn Garden City, with various connections north. Due to a incident in the Stevenage area the 0958 was terminated at...

Apologies if this thread exists elsewhere. Seat Frog are now charging a "savings fee" (apparently started on 1st July) - £2 per transaction Just attempted to put a bid in of £5, but the it will now cost me £6 (should I go ahead) with this compulsory fee (very Ryanair) I must admit i don't...

Last night was the classic case of a rock in a hard place for the railway, At about 2320 a trespasser was reported on the line at Kings Cross (understand heading into the gasworks tunnel). The power was turned off while the trespasser was apprehended and all trains stood. Included 2 at Finsbury...