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Just heard on BBC Southeast news that Southeastern is having talks with the government about extending its franchise beyond April and wants exclusive access preventing any other operators, given that they've already had previous extensions, how is this right?

As the title suggests, I was wondering what people's dream/fantasy train would be. Mine would be a 2EPB top and tailed by deltics being absolutely thrashd up the ECML.

Modern trains such as 185 180 170 172 electrostar and desiro are far more complicated than previous generations so I wonder if it will be actually possible to preserve working examples on heritage lines in the future, I predict that there will be interest when time is up for those trains among...

If the return portion of a ticket is valid for a month after the outward journey would it be acceptable to use it more than once, for example, one had a lift in a car to the destination and used the return ticket to come back.

I have noticed that at some stations there is a white sliding switch under the opposite facing platform, just out of curiosity could someone please tell me what it's for.

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/excessing-nse-discounted-ticket-to-full-fare.193232/#post-4238279 Time to get rid of the time regulations from the railway, dp you want to encourage or discourage customers?

I went through Sevenoaks Tunnel earlier and the lady across from me was talking on her phone all the way through it, I checked both of my phones and neither had any service, is there something I don't know or is she one of life's eccentricities? The tunnel is quite deep and very long and we were...

Is it true that the magnetic strip on train tickets can be compromised by mobile phones?

Having read threads on here about services from Liverpool Street to Norwich and Liverpool to Norwich I can't help but wonder if some passengers have got their journeys catastrophically wrong and ended up about two hundred miles the wrong way.

Eastenders tonight, Bobby was on a main line station with a motorway bridge over it, just wondering where it was because all the main lines in East London are electrified and this one wasn't.

I have always wondered why SR emus post 1963 were not built to the Mk2 design despite the rest of the railway going with it, Veps could have been built as 310s but with end gangway and CIGs could have used the same basic design as the Mk2 Irish DEMUs, by the time phase 2 CIGS were being built...

I have often wondered if it would be technically possible to build a new Suburban train with doors to every bay, like an EPB but up to date, electric plug doors that are controlled by staff in most carriages and another carriage per unit that has two double doors and PRM compliance.

I have no idea if I have posted this in the correct location but this morning I have noticed that there are a lot of posts coming up in new posts which are from universities and are in Japanese or Chinese, are they from hackers?

I would like to know if any Class 305 vehicles exist in preservation, I have fond memories of these going from Hackney Downs to Chingford as a child in the 70s.

With a substantial quantity of Mk 3 EMU coaches being withdrawn in the next few years I have been thinking about what else to do with them rather than scraping, maybe converting some into cheap temporary housing for homeless people for instance, what do others think?

Staying in South London just now and having used 376s recently they are really looking tired, I was wondering if they are due a midlife refurbishment?

Good evening all, this is my first time o on here and I hope that I have posted in the correct location. Having gone to Chelmsford on Monday on a Class 321 Renatus I was very impressed with its quality of refurbishment, I was thinking that the Renatus treatment would be a good thing for the...