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No need for reservations, just go. On the Bernina bahn my completely subjective view is that you're marginally better off in the normal carriages (if there are any off season) than in the EMUs. On the St Moritz (or Samedan if you're cutting the corner from Pontresina) to Chur or wherever Albula...

Hi, Im off to Switzerland soon. Our hostel is participating in the Engadine (St Moritz / Pontresina area) Mountain Railways Included offer. I understand i get sent a pdf shortly before departure so you can use it to get to and from the hotel as well as during the stay. When should i start...

There are a couple of narrow gauge ones in Switzerland which meet funicular or cable cars but are isolated from the main network. One from les montuires to the base of the emmosson dam and another from grutschalp to murren

If yiu do use it again - and it's my preferred method - crucial bits involve being near the middle of the train for the cross platform interchange at odlxford circus and being at the back of the victoria line train to take the escalators up from the platforms rather than the ones at the other...

It's worth checking which mountain railways etc are included in the pass. I think the cable cars from fiesch etc up to the aletsch alps above are included. The higher mountain lifts from the alps up to the peaks are I believe 50%off. Switzerland can be very expensive, but there's free very nice...

Heathrow Junction station only lasted for a few months in 1998, but was about 2 miles from Heathrow terminal 2 and 3 station 1782547065 It's a bit of a stretch, but waterloo international replaced Dover western docks? Less of a stretch, st pancras international replaced waterloo international?

Personally im not a big fan of seatfrog but I can see the business case for it...Many industries have ways of quietly selling stuff cheaper without damaging their "mainline" offer. Its supposed to be a bit fiddly, so that only your most price sensitive customers bother with it, while your...

I don't think I'm the only person who stopped bothering with first on this route when it went to 2+2 seating.

If there's significant cruise traffic at Southampton, 1st (and standard) can be very busy.

There's a cable ferry across the non tidal part of the exe in exeter. Link to Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butts_Ferry

Unless it's pouring with rain it's most likely that walking or taking a bus to St Pancras will be easier than going all the way down to the victoria line and all the way back up again.

In general, you can easily get from anywhere to anywhere in Mexico by bus. Long distance routes will all have online booking and a range of comfort standards. In this part of the world ADO, Cristobal Colon and their many sub brands are all easy to find. There will also be a host of smaller...

Etr470s (ex transalpino) now in Greece?

The national rail offers guide includes "Bristol ferry" add-ons for single,return, and day use. I can't find these fares in brfares.com ... do they no longer exist or am I looking in the wrong place? https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/tickets-railcards-offers/promotions/bristol-ferry-boats/

For pure curiosity you might want to buy a slightly out of date paper timetable from European Timetable (the ex thomas cook timetable). They sell them very cheaply

Brig is a personal favourite

It looks like a very efficient use of space but presumably would not be allowed in the UK for the same reason the proposed pods on the Caledonian never appeared. I forget the correct technical term but it's a safety issue that if lying down fore-aft rather than across the carriage and there's a...

There is mention of both bus and highway improvement in the section 106 planning agreement and a transport forum. I presume that it was renegotiated at some point, possibly during covid.

Re having standardised, large fleets...perhaps just one suburban design and a high speed design, there are pros and cons: Costs can be lower with long production runs, and lots of people will know how they work, how to fix them, drive them etc. On the downside it slows adoption of improved...

Hi Scrat, it can be very scary being in this situation, but you are dealing with a big organisation that is driven by systems, and trying to step out of the system and swim against the current invariably causes problems...so stop. wait for the letter or email from the railway which will have a...