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I'm going to Toronto for two weeks at the end of September and I'd like to do a trip to Niagara Falls while I'm there. The best way seems to be by bus (there is a train but the journey is longer than the bus journey andleaves you further from the falls with a fairly dull looking walk to get...

A comment in the maps thread about the placement of Covent Garden on the tube map (essentially saying it was being misrepresented as further than it is from Leicester Square) got me wondering how essential it is. To be clear, I'm not actually advocating for it, I was more wondering how bad the...

Next month I'm contemplating going from Manchester to an event in Wolverhampton on a Saturday, then staying over somewhere and going to another event in Coventry on the Sunday before travelling home. It looks like it would be valid to do this with a Manchester-Coventry off-peak return - even...

A friend has just seen this departure on the board at London Bridge: Image description: a departure board showing a service departing at 23:45 to Victoria, calling at East Croydon and Victoria There's no passenger service showing on RTT for 23:45, but there is an ECS movement (or two, I'm...

I'm travelling as a foot passenger on the ferry next weekend (returning the following weekend) and I've bought the bus transfers at either end. The information about them is vague. In Hull, the website states that buses leave regularly from Paragon interchange. Does anyone know what stand they...

For the sake of argument, assume I can afford it - I have Elon Musk's money but not his antipathy to railways. Suppose I believe I've identified a demand for a new non-stop fast rail service between two cities. I'm not going to say which cities to avoid the thread drifting into discussion of...

I have a 3 hour 45 minute layover at Doha airport tomorrow. Is it possible to just go for a there and back ride on the skytrain to kill a bit of time even though I don't have to change terminals?

I'm going to Tokyo next month, and I'd like to go on a Shinkansen while I'm there. Can anyone recommend a destination for a day trip, probably one and a half to two hours each way? There doesn't have to be anything in particular at the other end, just an interesting city I can spend a day...

Are these tickets considered expired when a passenger alights at a station in the Stations group, or can they be used for onward travel to another station in the group? For example, if I had a ticket from somewhere to Manchester Stations but the somewhere only had services to Piccadilly would I...

Is Euston->Limehouse via Northern line and DLR a valid part of a route for this journey or do I have to do Euston Square->Aldgate for Fenchurch Street as the route planner suggests?

I've just returned from a trip to Amsterdam for which the return Eurostar leg was cancelled. I've claimed for a refund, so I want to now how much to expect however all the confirmation emails, and everything I can find on the website only show the combined fare that I paid. Is there anywhere I...

From the thread about the proposed Cheltenham Racecourse station: Is it excessively harsh to say that the existence of heritage railways should take a low precedence in the list of things to worry about when considering if lines should be re-opened? While I'm sure they are something that forum...

Does anybody know if there are any left luggage facilities at Zwolle station?

Midi sounds more like a name that would be given to a central station, although there is also the central station in Brussels - what is the reason for using it here? Something historical?

I recently used contactless on my phone to pay for a rail journey, and I'd now like to add this contactless payment account to my Oyster account. When I go into the Google Pay app however, all that's displayed is the last four digits of the account. I can't see a way in the app to make it show...

I picked up my travelling home for Christmas tickets today - strange mixture of branding on the ticket. [Image shows a ticket routed Avanti West Coast only, on the 13:35 Virgin Trains service]

Apologies if this is old news here, but it's been doing the rounds on Twitter today and I thought some people might like it - YouTube - Pachelbel's Canon recreated with train horns. Possibly not one for the classical purists.

This post brought to you by the Kafaesque nightmare that is Thames Water's house move process. Filling in their online move form was completely ignored, ages spent on hold with hold music blasting out at a much higher volume than the staff I finally got to talk to so that on each of the numerous...

A couple of questions that have come to mind after reading suggestions in the Manchester Victoria lifts thread that the station should be managed by Network Rail. 1) What is the smallest station managed by Network Rail? 2) What is the largest station not managed by Network Rail? For the sake...

I travelled on Friday from London Waterlook to Ryde, with a ticket from Waterloo to Ryde Hoverport purchased over the phone from South Western Trains. Unfortunately, due to the weather the hovercraft wasn't running, so I was advised by a staff member at Southsea hoverport that I'd need to catch...