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Coming from the "Greater Anglia Penalty Fare - Contactless Mistake at Kelvedon" thread, as requested, a new one. As per title, when is it correct for revenue inspector to issue a penalty fare, for a passenger with a touched in with a contactless card? In the original thread, passenger having...

As per title, had BR adopted a TOPS/Austrian/German style numbering system, formed class+subclass+individual loco numbers system in 1948, what might it have looked like? What thoughts do people have? Could BR have got away with two digit class numbers to cover all types? Or would three have...

A quick look at the TfL journey planner for Paddington to Victoria gave an option of a 50 minute walk at 'moderate' pace (max walk time of 60 minutes), or 54 minutes by cycle hire (!?). More generally, this question raises the issue of when does an out of station interchange become a break of...

Looking into the the London Passenger Transport Area Boundary (see https://machorne.wordpress.com/2019/12/22/the-london-passenger-transport-area-an-explanation/), while Royston wasn't within the LPTA, the LPTB did have 'Restricted Outward Running' rights up the main road (in 1933 the A10) from...

Coming out of discussion regarding York Road (King's Cross) station, were there any (other) stations that were only open either for arriving or departing passengers?

The National Rail Enquires web site quotes (at https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/) a figure of '2,597 National Rail-served stations in Great Britain'. The ORR list of stations (as at 31st March) said 2585; I have reconciled this to 2582 stations (currently, or at least a couple weeks ago)...

On of those questions that came to me: as the title says, do those producing bus schedules take account of road, stop, etc. capacity constraints, or will they just schedule as many buses as they want/think appropriate at any particular stop, over any particular bit of road, etc.?

Coming out of the 'Above 50...' thread, idle speculation on my part: what are the shortest and longest possible circular routes - i.e. which will, starting from some point, bring you back to the same point, facing in the same direction, ready to go round again. For the longest, without passing...

Something which I have seen mentioned in various posts and elsewhere (it is marked as such on the CTR keyGo map: https://www.thameslinkrailway.com/-/media/goahead/gtr-all-shared-pdfs-and-documents/key-documents/gtr-1805-ret-keygo-area-map-v27.pdf) is the 'London Travel Area' - but what I have...

Coming out of other threads, a couple of questions: 1. What is the total number of stations in the country, not only on National Rail, but also TfL (London Underground, DLR, Tramlink), other Metros (etc) and preserved railways in GB, and also Northern (or even all) Ireland? (Ideally broken down...

Coming out of another thread, a trivia question: what is the earliest 'last connection' that needs to be made for an arrival that (traffic) day? A quick look for a likely contender gives Newton Abbot arr 0650 (from Torre, etc.) into 0659 dep, for connection at Birmingham, and then others, to...

Can anybody point me at statistics (or provide the figures) showing the busiest stations in the UK (TfL, National Rail or whoever), or even globally, by number of trains (departures/arrivals/movements per day/year)? (All those readily available are by passengers). At a guess I would suggest...

I've just been looking at the National Rail website, and see the new 'find a station' Beta page (https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/find-a-station/) - though it provides other station information, does not provide the station maps that were available on the old NRE station pages (which seem to be no...

Coming out of another thread, a question: For an ordinary train (so not Eurostar, Caledonian Sleeper, special excursion or the like) making intermediate stops (or just one) what is longest (over all trains) shortest (for each train) distance between stops (hope this makes sense)? Does including...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/police-and-other-professionals-misconduct-hearings-related-to-rail-travel.243356 Should RPIs (and other staff whose duties include checking tickets? and those in the follow up functions?) fall within this category of "Police and...

Raising as new thread, from this one on timetables, quoting posts from there, as a separately interesting one While the 'Up to London' (or the main centre for the railway) convention is generally understood, and widely quoted, there are I believe exceptions, and lines for which is it not...

I understand that driving cabs are equipped with GSM-R phones, for drivers to communicate with signalmen. Beyond that, what other voice (or other) communication is possible? Who else has handsets? Can drivers communicate with Network Rail or TOC controls? What about guards/conductors? Are their...

For those who have looked at Rail Route (see thread https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/demo-free-to-play-rail-route-a-rail-network-simulation-indie-game.163193/ ), and enjoy that style of simulation, an alternative (long established: it's now at 3.9s) is Train Director (seemingly not...