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Small family emergency means I need to travel with my 13yo from London to Edinburgh on Sunday 30 August. Return via lner the following week all good and booked with one perks and good seats. But avanti is eus-Edb via Preston, and offers seat reservations from the Preston-Edb leg (and I can...

I often travel Moorgate to Forest Hill, using the Elizabeth line to Whitechapel, changing there for the Windrush line down to Forest Hill. Yesterday I read this page https://tfl.gov.uk/fares/touch-pink-card-reader-when-changing-trains#on-this-page-2 and didn’t use the pink reader, as it...

We're a family of four going from Catford to Cambridge one weekend shortly, via Backfriars (various reasons need to avoid the underground). The two kids have zipcards and we have a family railcard. It looks like the cheapest way is for the kids to go free between Catford and Blackfriars and...

I travelled from King's Cross to Malton on 27 May, depart KGX 11:00 arrive York 12:52 (LNER); depart York 13:04 arrive Malton 13:28 (TPE). Four advance singles, family railcard, bought from LNER. The 13:04 TPE from York to Malton was cancelled, so we got the 14:03 which was two minutes late...

Appreciate this is a first world London centric thread. But with the London overground suspensions today south of new cross to Croydon, could someone somewhere have persuaded southern to run more trains? Northbound they were 30 mins intervals with five coaches and people not getting on north...

I seem to remember reading mk3 air con would start to become ineffective when the outside temp went above around 30 degrees. 158 air con is legendary for its ineffectiveness due to the refrigerants… What is the operating max temp for modern rolling stock in the UK? And will it cope with...

Hi I've done a search but can't find anything - before Covid, SWT/South Western seemed to be replacing a load of their class 455s with newer classes. Southern (particularly on the Peckham Rye / Tulse Hill routes are almost 455s apart from occasional 377s. What is the longevity of Southern's...

Over the last 20 years or so tickets have become available in October for Christmas travel. This year, the LNER website throws up a box saying tickets are not yet available for travel on selected dates (in this case, 24 and 27 December Edinburgh-London). My resourceful sister then went to the...

I have an rail only annual season ticket from East Dulwich to London Terminals (my usual destinations are London Bridge/Charing Cross). I may need to be in Vauxhall next week. The bus will probably be quicker and easier, but I presume my ticket is valid if I change at Waterloo East? My...

Having had a discussion about cars and regular/premium fuels with a friend recently, he was adamant that his car ran better with more mpg on premium diesel. Which got me thinking, do diesel trains use the same grade as road vehicles? Given the fuel consumption, do any operators use...

Scaffolding and temporary stairs have appeared at North Dulwich station recently. I first thought they might be for maintenance contractors to move materials from one platform to another, but other commuters have suggested that they are for passengers when refurbishment starts... In the...

Does anyone know when this will be available for use within London? I got one through the post before Christmas, booked a monthly season on the Southern website and put in the last 8 digits of the key...and received a paper monthly through the post - with the 8 digits of the key in the...

I realise that the answer to this question may be no, but worth asking! I bought two returns (actually four singles) for £240 for myself and wife on East Coast, taking our two year old with us as I have done in the past. However...I've just realised that buying a Family and Friends railcard...