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Several European countries have monthly or annual passes for all railways and buses. Deutschlandticket: €49/month, doesn't include IC/ICE etc. General Abonnement (Switzerland): 355CHF/month or 3995CHF pa. National Train Pass (Portugal): €49/month, regional trains only. Klimaticket (Austria)...

I was thinking of buying Mrs Fegg one of the little LED departure boards for Christmas as a fun way of making her commute less stressful. There seem to be a couple of manufacturers - at least ukdepartureboards.co.uk and traindepartures.com, but there may be more. Do any forum posters have...

Ok, this one crosses the boundary from "speculative" into "fruitcake". But the AECOM 2015 report into reopening Aberystwyth–Carmarthen, at https://www.gov.wales/docs/det/report/151222-aberystwyth-carmarthen-report.pdf clearly states: (my bold) Does anyone know about these alleged NR studies -...

The Campaign for the Reopening of the Ivanhoe Line have posted a lengthy and interesting update on their Facebook page. (As it's billed as a "public update" I think it's fair to reproduce here.) I've bolded some of the key points.

Let's say I've found an Interesting Ticket™ which has less stringent peak restrictions at a London Terminal than most others of that ticket type. I'm pretty sure that if I had a standard orange credit-card sized ticket, the gateline readers would object based just on the ticket type, and...

It's well established in the Disputes & Prosecutions board that ticket retailers such as Trainline will routinely disclose a customer's purchase history when requested by the "rail industry" (TOCs, companies like TIL, etc. etc.). I'm sure I'm not alone in being uneasy about this. I don't...

GWR have given up on the two Cotswold lines this Sunday - North (Oxford-Worcester) and South (Swindon-Gloucester). https://www.gwr.com/strike That means no trains all day from a bunch of significant stations (Stroud, Evesham, Pershore, Kemble, Moreton-in-Marsh, Charlbury, Hanborough etc.) and...

I travelled from Charlbury to Guildford yesterday. I changed at Reading (obviously), on an SDR routed "NOT VIA LONDON" for £36.70. But I was startled to see on the ticket machine that there was an "ANY PERMITTED" available at £109.70 - just short of 3x the not-London price. The discrepancy is...

I've not seen this mentioned here before, but it's very neat: https://direkt.bahn.guru/ Type a station name into the search box (top right) and it'll show you all the destinations on a direct train from that station. It works anywhere in Europe, not just the UK.

Very interesting paper by Network Rail: https://sacuksprodnrdigital0001.blob.core.windows.net/regional-long-term-planning/North,%20West%20and%20Central/East%20West%20Main%20Line%20Strategic%20Statement%202022.pdf It effectively says that, without through running beyond Oxford and...

https://www.brtimes.com/!board?stn=GCR&filt=WSB&date=20220224 1742 ex Gloucester: travels via Bristol and Bath, terminates Westbury 1930. Next departure from Gloucester: 1750, travels via Swindon and Melksham, terminates Westbury 1934. Anything else similar?

Twitter thread this morning (4.28am): (Original thread at https://twitter.com/westmidstrain/status/1470611675711684608) I know that enthusiasts on Twitter can be a bit wearing at times, but that's a severe over-reaction to a customer asking for alternative travel suggestions. Needless to say...

Birmingham–Manchester is currently reduced to an hourly service (as with much of the CrossCountry network). Several times in recent weeks on this forum, the idea of a standalone Birmingham-Manchester service has been mooted to restore a half-hourly frequency, perhaps using the surplus 350s for...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/gwr-franchise-extension-what-would-you-like-to-see.205090/ I'm hoping that's half the story. We strongly need (and have been lobbying for) three-day seasons on the Oxford-commute part of the Cotswold Line, too. And...

Criteria: No likelihood of mainline passenger or freight services returning. No likelihood of a sustainable heritage railway operation. The route must be attractive as a cycleway/greenway either for tourism or utility/commuting purposes. No insuperable physical obstacles: but note that bikes...

Apparently the track is due to be lifted on the stub of the disused Tidenham branch, the southern end of the Wye Valley line. The latest update by A-B Connecting Communities, who are campaigning to create a cycle and walking path along the line, includes this: To summarise Darren Bryce from the...

Contributors to our local town website are not very impressed at the number of cancellations on the Cotswold Line right now (six services cancelled so far today alone), and have taken to Photoshopping GWR's current advertising campaign... (Spoof of GWR advertising image, with caption "Five get...

Moderator note: split from Simon Jenkins article regarding cancelled electrification schemes: Is this serious? To be fair, copyright laws require otherwise.

If you were the Heritage Lottery Fund and could award (say) £30m to any preserved railway project for an extension, which one would it be? Bear in mind engineering feasibility, tourism potential (no point extending a line for 20 miles if no-one will choose it for an afternoon out), and so on...

Does anyone have advance knowledge of whether Chiltern will be offering 'route High Wycombe' fares (or similar), via Oxford, from other nearby stations - in particular the Cotswold Line, but perhaps also Tackley, Radley and the like? (Not seeking to reopen the old one about that easement...)...