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Apologies if discussed before but I can't find it if so. Just a little rant about connections at Bristol Temple Meads from London Paddington trains onward to Weston Super Mare ( and local Taunton ) trains. Throughout the day the pattern is the same. The incoming trains from Paddington tend to...

Is this happening to anyone else? Historically I have always found this site by searching for 'rail uk forum' in google but suddenly this site is no longer appearing on the front page when I do this. Other much less relevant sites come up. Yes I can now use a bookmark but wondering if this is...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/senior-railcard-survey.302820/page-3#post-7806651 Perhaps a minimun fare before 0930 might be a useful compromise... So as to penalise commuters and not long distance travellers? Say £45 17803069

Apogies if this is too trivial, but in front of me is a day return I have just completed from Nailsea and Backwell ( Near Bristol ) to Caerphilly that is marked " Valid Only via Newport". What is the way not via Newport I am missing???

I was looking at various options for a day out from Folkestone on the Southern ticketing website, typed in Folkestone To Seaford day return and the following alert popped up : " Please be aware the return portion of a ticket to Seaford, can't be used to travel from Eastbourne. If you're...

Apologies for keeping this slightly vague but I am hopefully giving you enough information. For many years I have been making a journey from the Kent coast via London to Bristol traveling out from kent in the early morning. For the first time ever I have been queried for being on too early a...

The West Somerset railway is offering shuttle trains from Bshops Lydeard to Taunton on two dates if you book a visit to the inspiration railway 200 exhibition train on 25th and 28th November. WSR Shuttle . Awesome. ( not the exhibition, the shuttles !) If they can do it for this such a shame...

I have just booked a trip from St Pancras to Amsterdam having never looked at the train times before. Why are two out of the four trains at such difficult times of day making them almost useless ? I am thinking of the 0616 departure from St Pancras and the 2344 arrival into Amsterdam. To catch...

Yes of course they must, and this is mainly in jest, but as a regular traveller back and forth between Bristol and Paddington at all different times of day who makes a point of trying to sit in the queitest part of the train ( the Bristol end ) I am always annoyed by Reading, as whichever...

Apologies if this has been asked before. I can't find it in a search. Journey is from A to C via B. The return fares A to C return and B to C return are almost identical so for the return journey later I want my ticket to be from A to C return. Train leaves A at 0930 then change trains at B...

No, no deer or foxes in here but just noticed ( 0810 29th May ) a 30 second long patch of very severe hunting ( side to side movement ) about five minutes into tunnel going westbound from Ebbsfleet towards Stratford. Don't think it is the coach ( South Eastern Javelin) as ride has been fine all...

Bit of an odd ball question here. I am a frequent user of the GWR mainline, HS1, the South Western mainline and South Eastern. A few years ago when I used the Caledonian sleeper for the first time, I noticed a particular "whirring" type noise from the ? Track ? Wheels as it was travelling at...

The local paper, Kent Online suggests " Talks have taken place between Kent and East Sussex County councils" https://www.kentonline.co.uk/thanet/news/talk-over-direct-high-speed-trains-from-thanet-to-bournemout-287529/ Yes it would be a nice thing to have but !!!!!

Thought as there was no queue at the ticket office at Waterloo the other day, I would get my ticket from there rather than using the self service machines. Surprised when I was issued with a flimsy paper barcode type ticket .. Yeuch .. But then when I got to the barriers at Waterloo East I...

Thinking of buying a kent rover . On the south eastern trains website they are available but have to be purchased three days in advance as earlier dates are blacked out on booking page. I can't see anything on validity pages on national rail website about them needing to be bought three days...

A comment on the Caledonian sleeper thread triggered a memory. Wonder if anyone has the answer ! Someone commented about passenger coaches being attached to mail trains and it instantly triggered a memory of a ' network day' in the 1980's. For those who are not as old as me; these were days at...

So many stations now have so many places to eat but I end up at least once a week Hungry at Bristol Temple Meads. There is no Leon, no Pret, well, hardly anything. A pasty stall, small sandwich stall and a Starbucks kiosk in the Subway and an Upper crust kiosk on platform three. There is...

Sigh. We have enough automatic announcements to put up with on the new Hitachi IET trains as it is, but so many journeys are spent listening to ' would the host in the rear carriages make an IC call' ' would the customer host pick up the next IC call' etc etc etc again again and again .. Can't...

Hi. I have been baffled by several apparent paradoxes and i wonder if any of you know the truth !!!?? I am a very regular traveller between Ashford International and Bristol I usually end up with either an off peak return or a super off peak return. These have restriction codes such as YC...