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    ScotRail - New app / website booking engine from 30 July 2026

    I've used many companies to buy Scotrail tickets through, ranging from Chiltern to Northern - generally dependant on whether Quidco or TopCashback are giving cashback on them. The Northern App is/was already on my mobile and I have no issues with mtickets so quite happy to continue using it...
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    £2 fare cap comes to Scotland:

    Opens up numerous cans of worms but the main one is that once introduced it will be almost impossible to go back to operators setting their own fares as the jump from one week at £2 to the next at whatever will cause uproar. Can't help feeling that the whole thing is misguided - both here in...
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    ScotRail Suburban Fleet (EMU and BEMU) Market Engagement

    Yeah, we Scots pay nothing. If we're such a burden why are you so keen to hang on to us?
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    Glasgow Subway - did anyone ever call it the Clockwork Orange?

    The old red subway cars actually used tramcar engines which would have helped as well. Re people being precious, I'm pretty certain Londoners would object if I called their excellent Tube network the Metro.
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    Glasgow Subway - did anyone ever call it the Clockwork Orange?

    The press and media started suggesting Clockwork Orange after the modernisation in the late 1970s but I have never used it myself nor met any Glaswegian who used it. It was always the subway (and always will be!).
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    Peschiera Del Garda to Verona and Brescia sanity check

    Perfect, thanks - we're there from 5th to 19th September so possibly the same time!
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    Peschiera Del Garda to Verona and Brescia sanity check

    Hi, Shortly heading to Peschiera del Garda and will definitely be using the train from there to both Verona and Brescia (and back from both) - can I sanity check some questions? I have the Trenitalia app and have an account set up so I can log in - my intention is to use regional trains for any...
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    West Coast Motors & Borders Buses

    Don't know if WCM have the same issues but the Borders Buses twitter feed can be embarrassingly useless: The 12:10 is delayed by approximately 15 minutes due to a technical error We apologise for any inconvenience caused - WHAT IS THE SERVICE NUMBER, WHERE IS IT GOING FROM AND TO? PLease note...
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    Borders Railway - 10 years on

    Except that Council offices in Newtown St Boswells are next to empty on a daily basis as most staff work from home or from other council offices now. And, yes, it is baffling that SBC recently renovated the offices at Newtown.
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    First Greater Glasgow

    I think it's more that the bridge opens and closes at very irregular times so a proper timetable is well nigh impossible.
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    Borders Railway - 10 years on

    Rather than an inner/outer service, simply extend the lenghts of the trains. I realise units aren't simply lying about but the longer the train the less likely it is to be standing room only. It doesn't help that people don't move down to the middle of the carriages but a 6 coach 170 would...
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    Any service crossing in to England should transfer to GBR

    What would the OP's reaction be if I suggested a title change to Any service crossing in to Scotland should transfer to Transport Scotland
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    Great British Railways livery: Alternative suggestions/variations

    It would have been so much simpler and probably so much better had they simply instructed Best Impressions.
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    Great British Railways livery: Alternative suggestions/variations

    Would look good. Much better than the one the DfT have gone for.
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    Been from Peschiera del Garda to Venezia and back today

    TUI for me - more due to being in the south of Scotland as going by train would be good.
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    Been from Peschiera del Garda to Venezia and back today

    I'm visiting Peschiera in September - can I ask how long the journey took and the approximate cost of the ticket, please?
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    Comedic "things you would ban": minor things that irritate you

    So you're rebuilding all the toilets up and down the country?
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    Comedic "things you would ban": minor things that irritate you

    Imagine you're a lady needing the bathroom in the train station and find it's a free for all with some very drunk men in your gender neutral bathrooms. Men are definitely to be trusted not to be lazy b******s and simply pee all over the seat in a cubicle. Men are definitely to be trusted not to...

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