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Yesterday VTWC announced that ex-Scotland trains would be delayed due to slow running during the high winds. Totally understandable and things were running about 20 minutes late. I therefore got a service starting at New St thinking it would not be delayed as it was only heading to London. How...

I may have mentioned this before, but things have changed: Each month I get two tickets - a zonal all modes ticket, plus 1st class train add-on for the West Midlands. Invariably, they fail either at one station's barriers or all of them and I get it replaced at a station ticket office. I have...

Five of us are heading to London in May with the seat sale from VT. All is good. I've printed the tickets out and each one is on a sheet of A4 paper. My question is, how much of the blurb and white space can I hack off and still be left with valid tickets, as I won't be taking a lever-arch...

I missed my usual train this morning so had a quarter of an hour to sit in the first class lounge at Coventry station. I'm no stranger to seeing the suits fill their bags with loot to take home for the kids and family, but today a guy even had a cardboard box presumably to stock up with canned...

I use Solihull station everyday and it is becoming busier and busier, like many provincial places where the roads nearby get gridlocked in the morning. What gets me is that it has quite slender platforms yet gets packed during the peaks and has trains travelling through at speed - the...

I can normally sort this myself... On the 4th Feb a mate is trying to get his son from uni at Durham to Kings's Cross on VTEC. Easy? The timetable shows roughly hourly direct trains, but the journey planners don't! VTEC state no direct trains (and no engineering works), NRE do show...

Virgin WC Twitter are current going on about how their trains are less stressful (percentages etc.) than driving, as you may have seen. Needless to say this has created some funny responses, like '100% of people would not like to be on a bus replacement', '2/3rds would rather drive when the...

There's 2 helicopters, numerous ambulances and police cars and all lines are closed. Reports mention 'trespassers' and staff are walking down south from the platforms on the line.

This morning I got the 6:20 Pendolino from Euston to Birmingham at Coventry, and it was on time. As we passed Birmingham Intl. things slowed right down and the manager announced we were being diverted north since a LM train had broken down at Stechford. We thus had a tour of north Brum via...

I have a West Midlands nnetwork monthly season ticket which comprises 3 parts: 1. photocard. 2. nnetwork standard ticket (bus, train, metro). 3. 1st class train upgrade ticket. 2 & 3 get sent every month in separate envelopes at great expense. Can someone tell me why they can't just...