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Catching a train from Welshpool earlier today, I noticed that in both directions, trains were being dispatched in the traditional manner by guards blowing their whistle and hand signalling to the driver from the platform by their local door. The Cambrian lines are, of course, signalled using...

I’ve recently begun travelling from Northampton to Euston quite frequently on weekend late evenings, normally at around the time that two-track working comes into effect. I have been surprised to see that, despite the fact that the possessions of two of the four lines are a weekly occurrence...

Yesterday I made a Charlton - Acton Main Line journey, travelling on Southeastern Charlton-Woolwich Arsenal, then walking over to Woolwich station to take the Elizabeth Line to Paddington. I hold a zone 1-3 Travelcard on Oyster, which would fully cover me for a Charlton-Acton journey heading...

Could I check that my understanding is correct here? I hold an annual zones 1-3 Travelcard on an Oyster. Making a journey to Bedford, I purchased a Hendon-Bedford return, to cover me from the last station in zone 3. My understanding is that if one of the tickets in a split is a season ticket...

Intrigued to see that, according to this tweet from Northern, rail replacement bus services between Skipton and Kirkby Stephen over the next four days appear to be explicitly serving Hawes, which lost its train service in 1959 https://twitter.com/northernassist/status/1319911518411083778?s=21...

Yesterday evening I found myself in the situation where the fastest and cheapest way to get from New Street to Euston was a pair of LNW services, changing at Long Buckby onto this Crewe-Euston service (1U46) https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/P45224/2019/10/06/advanced. Given the length of...

Hi, In the middle of planning a rail-based trip to the Czech Republic in September. This is a completely new network for me, so was looking for a couple of pointers. 1) what is punctuality generally like? From the timetable, CD looks like a network run on the basis of quite high levels of...

Hi - long-time lurker who has finally got round to registering to seek some advice. On 11 December, I purchased two advance tickets using the Chiltern website for a Welshpool-Euston journey on 1 January as below: 10:56 Welshpool - Wolverhampton 12:11 12:25 Wolverhampton - Stafford 12:37 12:42...