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Just got on a train at Luton Airport Parkway having been stranded there for the best part of 45 minutes (after a journey back from London towards Flitwick) due to Thameslink whooshing two trains in a row, and the third train being delayed. As a result I've missed school pickup and will now be...

Just received an email from Thameslink about the St Pancras lift refurbs booked in from 15 June until mid-September 2026. In the email, it states: (Their bold) What on Earth do they mean?

Travelling on Eurostar soon between London and Amsterdam and am curious which route it takes after departing Rotterdam towards Amsterdam Centraal? Does the train continue in the same direction but turn immediately right towards Haarlem, entering Amsterdam Centraal from the west - or does it...

Mod note: Split from this thread. I have often wondered how it's possible for TOCs to check that every single speaker all the way down the train are working adequately. Short of having a driver at the front speaking into the mic for 5 minutes while a colleague walks the entire length of the...

Following the theft of signalling cable at St Albans City yesterday, we (me, my wife, and 2 young kids) followed the advice of Thameslink and headed over to Milton Keynes Central to catch a train to London, with ticket acceptance in place. Having parked the car and paid (again - we'd already...

Booked some tickets for Eurostar via TrainPal so we could take advantage of the small discount being offered for new app users. Step 1 asks for origin and destination and dates as usual, but also asks for passengers names and DOBs - all fine and entered for 2 adults and 2 children aged 9 and 3...

Bit of trivia for a Monday morning. WITHOUT ANY REVERSALS, and starting at Farringdon Elizabeth line, what is the furthest a train could travel? (For this purpose we're ignoring loading gauge, driver familiarisation, which train classes go on which lines, etc - and only focusing on tracks and...

If you had carte blanche with the area around Kempston Hardwick/Wixams and with the EWR project in the back of your mind, what would you do and why? I see two options (other than the status quo, which will probably involve shuttle buses from Bedford/Flitwick to the park) 1 a) Build Wixams as...

Interested in a fantasy building a circle line which uses the Crossrail route Paddington to Liverpool Street then calls at as many large towns/cities as possible before looping back round to Paddington. The rules are that there must be no reversals, it must be circular in both directions...

Similar to the New Stations Calendar thread, I thought it would be a good idea to start a Closed/Under Threat Stations master thread. With the number of stations mothballed recently due to infrastructure issues and therefore temporarily closed by stealth, combined with stations which haven't...

The discussion about figure of 8 circuits in the Milton Keynes thread got me curious as to whether it would be possible to create (adjoining) circle lines connecting the major towns and cities of the UK. As an extra challenge, no reversing is allowed, and the circles must connect somewhere in...

Last night there were issues with Thameslink services to/from Brighton due to overcrowding following the Pride event. In Central London, trains to Bedford which originated in Brighton were 30-45 minutes late, but there were trains to Bedford on the "all stop" Sutton route. These slower trains...

Despite asking both Thameslink and APCOA (the car park operator) for a copy of their terms and conditions for parking at Luton Airport Parkway, neither of them could provide it online and APCOA said to refer to the signage on site. Am I allowed to park at Luton Airport Parkway Station then get...

GatEx has been suspended since March 2020. With the likely permanent reduction in business travel, coupled with the fact that GTR already offer an overlapping service between London, Gatwick and Brighton which takes the same amount of time - albeit from London Bridge rather than Victoria, and at...

GTR have announced today there will be a reduced timetable in operation from Monday. No Milton Keynes to Clapham Junction service No Southern services at Beckenham Junction or Birkbeck No Southern service between Crystal Palace and Dulwich Down to 1 train per hour in both directions round the...

I wondered what pairs of contrasting stations (by any measure - service level, number of destinations, age of trains, architectural style, geographical location...) we can come up with which have one letter different in their CRS codes. For example MAN (Manchester Piccadilly) is extremely...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/10/train-firms-worker-bonus-email-is-actually-cyber-security-test

This train departed Penhelig 26m late but arrived at its destination 3 minutes early, two hours later. https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/G96377/2021-05-08 What other examples do you know of where the timetable padding is so extreme that this would be possible?

Inspired by the thread about what Dire Consequences Might Follow in the event of a TOC not running a parliamentary service (say, Stockport<>Stalybridge), I pose a question. What actions would need to be taken, and how much would that cost, to remove passenger service from a line like this...

Was waiting for a train yesterday evening which was billed to be an 8 car train (instead of the usual 12). Through experience I know that the 8 car stop board is before the end of the platform but the train fills there right to the other (rear) end of the platform. So, waiting at the rear as...