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Recently I tried to use an App to purchase a ticket from Manchester to Liverpool. I wanted some flexibility so decided the off-peak anytime day return was the best ticket @ £18.10. As the transaction was chugging through it suddenly stopped and I got a message saying the ticket type for that...

A tram has just derailed approaching Cornbrrok outbound. Several trams queueing behind now being evacuated. Passengers told there will not be any more trams for most of the day and a crane will be used in re-railing. I need to add that I was not on the tram or did I discover this by an external...

I am currently at Manchester Oxford Road awaiting the 19:09 departure to Cleethorpes. The information boards show a 15 minute delay with expected departure time of 19:24. This is a BLATENT LIE. This train left Lime Street late for whatever reason and is now trapped behind the CLC stopper via...

4K51, a Freightliner container train from Trafford Park to Crewe, has just crawled past my window with 4 class 90s at the front! Is this normal? Or are they just using a scheduled freight train to relocate locomotives from A to B rather than sending them as a loose engine on their own and...

Today the WCML was closed for a few hours between Preston and Lancaster due to flooding, it reopened just before 3pm. I was travelling from Newcastle to Wigan via Carlisle. I arrived at Carlisle at 13:30 and sensed something was wrong. The departure board showed several Southbound services had...

We all know about the problems at TPEx, and understand the reasons to various degrees. However what concern me is that on Sundays they only ever operate a 2 hourly Lime Street - Oxofrd road shuttle over the CLC Warrington Central route. This is nothing to do with engineering works as EM run...

I was recently on a Westbound TPEx service formed of 2 x 3-car 185s. I was surprised that on departure from Dewsbury the PIS inside the carriage informed us that the platform at Huddersfield was too short for our train and that only the doors in the front 5 coaches could be used. We slid into...

[The original thread had been closed so hope this is allowed] Is there any updated on the 27 new Metrolink vehicles? Originally deliveries were scheduled to start last February, however we were told by TfGM that deliveries were delayed until September 2020. Obviously then COVID happened which I...

I wondered which platform on the national rail network was the busiest in terms of the number of scheduled trains stopping there, this is all pre-COVID or as published in the NRT May 2020 update. Contenders must include some of the slow line stations into Waterloo such as Earlsfield with 16tph...