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Just a quick question about auto top up. I still use the Oyster card rather than contactless as I have the senior railcard applied. If you only have one debit card registered to your account, and it’s been recently renewed with a new number, does the process automatically select the right...

The DfT have issued a written statement updating about Access for All upgrades on 15 Jan 26:

Moderator note - split from: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/swr-455-458-5-withdrawals.224866/ Unimetals are past administration, the receivers are responsible. I’m not sure if ownership of the site goes back to Sims at all, surely they’re just a creditor, and the official receiver owns...

LNER have just uploaded a cab ride video filmed on a southbound Flying Scotsman run. It appeared in my YouTube suggestions and I thought others might appreciate it:

With an apparently ever increasing use of single leg pricing, which seems to me to be DfT policy, should the Network Card minimum fare, and other similar minimum fares, be altered to a lower value if buying a single? If you opt to buy two singles in one transaction whether at a ticket office...

BBC reporting on a similar incident to one a decade or more ago, it looks like someone has turned right at the crossing and aimed to go up the down side, ie the other direction to the earlier case where a woman attempted to drive towards the station. Is this a widespread problem in the DC area...

It’s often noted the in disputes section discussions that the wording on the vast majority of penalty fare notices is not quite the same as the regulations require. The section “may have to pay…” vs “may be charged…” But is there any evidence of a PF being cancelled on the basis of the text...

BBC News is reporting that the small boat service that runs between Portsmouth and Gosport overnight on Friday/Saturday and Saturday/Sunday will cease operations this weekend. The service is run by a third party after the main service finishes at midnight, and allows for late night stragglers...

Quick question for you please, how long before the expiry date should it be ok to renew a 3 year senior railcard? Can you be too early?

from Paul Clifton: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-68402089

I saw a video a few days ago of trams and trolleybuses operating together in Newcastle upon Tyne city centre. It made me wonder if they generally shared the same overhead wires? So in the busiest streets the queues of trams and trolleybuses would be affecting each other‘s progress, even...

Moderator note: split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/newcastle-platforms-11-12.248014/ I suspect losing P12 fits quite well with the planned new pedestrian entrance, beyond the south end of the office building on what is now known as Central Parkway, (formerly the north end of Forth...

There’s been an up to date cab ride video uploaded today by the Crossrail Project, Paddington to Abbey Wood.

One of my distant relatives, a Robert Stark, was a retired NER employee (ex assistant loco shed foreman) in Tweedmouth in 1921. These details from the 1921 census. His 64 yr old wife and 2 adult children were still employed by the NER, she was a ‘hostel attendant’, one son was a general...

Back when I was a lad, I often exited the station via the suburban entrance aka “Tynemouth Square”, and I know it had a separate ticket office, because that’s where I got my first set of Decimal copper coins, on the Sunday before “D-day” in 1971. (BR were given a head start!) But I didn’t...

Latest NR tweet shows a picture of a track machine and a team replacing track within the tunnel: https://twitter.com/NetworkRailWssx/status/1457973342015733761/photo/1

Are they slightly exaggerating what’s been done here? Didn‘t summer Sunday services already run - so although they’ve brought it up to a much better standard, it’s not really been a full “reopening” of a long abandoned line. Low hanging fruit that doesn’t create much of a precedent for the...

Not sure if this has been mentioned, but NR have issued a press release about testing a 717‘s ETCS capability in the Thameslink Core. The article shows 717002 sitting at Blackfriars...

(Apologies if I haven’t used the right name.) Now that the HEx depot and everything else non-Crossrail has been removed in the OOC site, does the Kensal Green E&C flyover have much of a current or future purpose? Will it become a maintenance liability with no services normally booked to use it?

Network Rail have issued a press release that explains exactly what today’s £69m is for: I thought a specific thread ought to be started, as although it is related to EWR NR consider it to be a separate project. For some reason DfT have announced it as a Southampton to Midlands freight...