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Getting the train with family to this on Saturday. Annoying I've since discovered Greater Anglia offer bundled air show and rail fare tickets that work out cheaper than the air show tickets alone for 2 adults. Buying show and rail tickets separately for 4 adults and 2 kids is 50% more expensive...

Some idle pondering leads me to wonder what the rationale for closing the Par to Fowey line was. It was converted (and still operates as) a private haul road from the clay driers at Par to the export terminal at Fowey. Seems a bizarre move given everything else remained on rail. All the...

Have a rather important Leed to London journey on Tuesday morning. I'm just wondering with the heatwave on the way whether there's a high risk of significant delay or cancellation due to rail temperatures. I think NR impose speed limits above a certain temperature? Is that right? I'm guessing...

Odd one that I can't find a definitive answer too. I have a rail and sail ticket from Hook of Holland. Is it permissible to break my journey? Eg Instead of travelling direct from Harwich to my home station, can I go to somewhere else, spend a few hours there, and then to my home station? All...

Going to London. Train split have sold me an advance single from my local station to London Underground Zone 2, and an anytime day so gle from Finsbury Park to London underground zones 1-6. Their itenaraty has me on a Thameslink service from Cambridge to Finsbury Park, then staying on that train...

Has anyone done this route? Considering using it for work purposes rather than fly back to UK and fly out again the next morning to Warsaw. What is the noise and comfort like Vs Caledonian sleeper and GWR sleeper? Is there a restaurant car?

I'm curious as to what happened with a train I was on yesterday, and one I was supposednto connect to but didn't as I bailed out of the first early at Derby and took a different route to Lincoln. I've seen people discuss delay reasons on here and thought they was from real time trainw but it...

For the first time in years I'm on a Cross Country service from the north to Plymouth. Very surprised to find us routed via the very slow Lichfield route instead of the route via Water Orton that I'm used to When did this become a thing? And why, given the train isn't calling at any of the stations?

Is an off peak single Attleborough to London Terminals OK for a break of journey at Cambridge? 1A restriction code I need to change trains there this afternoon but chance has arisen for a cheeky pint with a mate at the pub next to the station.

Spotted a couple of rakes of GWR liveried but debranded coaches yesterday. Does anyone know what they are doing there?

I want to travel from station A to station C via London, breaking my journey in London. I need to be in London for about 0830 and will leave for station C after the evening peak. I can buy an off peak return from A to C via London that fits my plan and is a third of the price of the (absurdly...

I was driving north and saw a 37 (I think 37714, definitely that sort of livery and it was named) heading south around the North Weald area. Anyone know where it was going?

Allowing passengers to choose to share with strangers would help to bring in more revenue. A significant proportion of berths must run empty every night. I get not everyone wants to be possibly sharing with a stranger, but it wouldn't bother me (nothing can be as awkward as the time in Morocco I...

I saw on a Facebook post (sorry no link as I can never find anything I see on there ever again) that there are apparently substantial remains of Victoria station aside formt he clock tower and hotel. The post claimed that there are rooms including an old ticket office beneath the shopping...

My mum won £10k on the Premium Bonds, so she's used it to book an awesome villa in Sicily for a week next May, for us all (her and dad, my family and my brothers family) to have a week away together. We just need to pay for our flights. Flights appear to be horrifically expensive - like £600...

I know essentially a bridge for the sub surface lines was built underground and then the box for the Jubilee line and escalators excavated below. But how was that bridge built without shutting the sub surface lines for a long time?

Long story short. Arrived Michaelwood Services northbound. The Tesla chargers are located in the adjoining hotel car park, but I became confused as the navigation system was telling me to go down a lane with no entry signs and "Authorised Vehicles Only". I turned the corner on that lane and at...

I had occasion to change trains at Crewe today, not a station I've visited before. Whilst I was hanging around, I noticed there was an EMR service to Newark Castle via Stoke. The seemed to run semi-fast to Nottingham, then calling all shacks to Newark. Sort of long distance morphing into local...

Clearly there is some issue or work taking place in this section as there are lights on in the tunnel and trains run slowly for almost the entire section. Just curious as to what the issue is?

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/new-newcastle-middlesbrough-express.244402/ They need to get some 755s. 100mph capable and go like the clappers, proper pressed back into the seat with an enthusiastic driver.