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It must be frustrating working for the DoT. You come up with all these grand ideas such as abolishing off-peak fares and denying working age people railcard discounts, yet you're hampered from enjoying all of these innovations by being based in a city with world class transportation. I propose...

Obviously there's a lot of disruption due to the route upgrade, and TPR services are being routed via Hebden Bridge. I notice that a lot of these are stopping at Castleton when one would normally expect a stop in the area to be at Rochdale. What is the reason for the calls at this usually...

We now have a new Prime Minister and he is quite rightly (IMO) prioritising cost of living issues in policy. The question is, how should the passenger railway contribute to this agenda. We already have a freeze on regulated fares - I'm not sure how sustainable this is in the long run as any...

Unfortunately it's clear that the local geology isn't going to change, at the same time the climate is getting worse. Therefore it seems likely that the shrinking of embankments in the area is going to baked in, with resultant delays on a regular basis. This is unmanageable with long single...

Trying to find a split of period returns between Wakefield and Peterborough. Needless to say LNER's fares abomination is stinking up the mainline, so I tried entering via Nottingham. For some reason entering via Nottingham comes up with a message saying that "all tickets are sold out". I'm...

It seems that there are no TPE trains between Leeds and Manchester today. The only route available is via Bradford interchange and needless to say, the two carriage stopper is full and standing from Leeds. Good luck to anyone wanting to catch the train at Bradford ! Surely even if TPE ran an...

There's no doubt that the railway industry has its issues. HS2 is in the news for all the wrong reasons. Fares remain high. The hangover from the Great Western electrification affects investment to this day It seems to me that the railway needs a good positive narrative that can be told to...

I was thinking recently that the North of England's railway network, in spite of being pierced by the big Inter City operators, could and should form the basis of a good, solid regional railway system. Yet because we have in the space, two regional operators, with wildly differing fares...

Hi all. I'm trying to get an itinerary from Middlesbrough to Doncaster via Darlington. There's a train from Middlesbrough getting to Darlington at 22:22 and a connecting train to Doncaster at 22:29, which gives seven minutes, yet both NRE and Trainsplit only give itineraries via Thirsk. Is...

What's happened to the direct Wigan - Leeds trains tonight ? Everything's showing as a change at Victoria.

I was looking at the timetable for the Cornish main line and the last train from Penzance seems remarkably early at 21:00. Yes, the Riviera leaves at 21:45, however this is pick up only at most stations, so not much use for local reasons. Is there a reason for such a poor timetable ?

I'm not talking about services where you know the carriage is going to be bad. We all know a Voyager is probably going to be a disappointing experience. I'm talking about where you expect the service to be better. For me, it's Electrostars with the crappy high density layout. Nasty thin seats...

Ok, we all know how iniquitous the LNER fares trial is. However, the previous phase of single leg pricing seems to have been largely accepted. The problem is that wherever I want to go, if I want to investigate the option of an open return fare, the single leg pricing thing on the ECML seems...

I've been reading about the exciting plans to have underground platforms underneath Manchester Piccadilly to create a "Kings Cross of the North". These ideas do sound laudable and would provide a step-change in connectivity. One thing that concerns me is that I haven't seen any commitment to...

Turned up for my usual 7:26 train only to find it not running. Not cancelled or even "delayed", but to use Doc Brown's phrase "erased from existance". This seems to be a shoddy way to treat passengers, just removing trains willy-nilly. Apparently there are engineering works near Sheffield...

We have a thread on predictions for 2026. How about one on hopes for 2026. You can be as modest or grandiose as you like. Mine are: - Normanton gets some beacon thingys to enable longer TPE's to stop. - Now that there's an additional proper fast service between Leeds and Sheffield, Normy...

As it says in the title. The train companies have been changing routing rules with minimal scrutiny. Isn't it time a review of these changes was undertaken by a body external to the railway industry, to ensure that they haven't brought onerous restrictions to the travelling public. The said...

I was looking on BR fares for this journey and noticed that while there's an off-peak return (£93.50), there seems to be no off-peak single. This leaves the anytime single at a whopping £72.40 ! I'd be interested to know the logic of this as presumably the off-peak period doesn't just appear...

We were all there, in the great Northern Rail seat discussion - the one where we all decided on a more padded seat and got ignored ! This is designed to be a more general discussion on seat back tables. For example, the refurbished 158's on Northern. Acceptable seats (although not better...

Disappointing to see that the regular Wakefield - Man-Pic services have been cancelled tomorrow. Have been planning my Saturday only to find them kyboshed this morning. Is there some reason for this