Search results

Joined the queue at 9.25am, it's 0.3 miles long!

I'm guessing Mortons is running the actual event (the non-operational railway stuff, i.e. crowd control, loos, catering, etc.) as well as being the ticket seller. I'm wondering how much chaos it's going to be on the day when 10,000 people show up and there's only a handful of portaloos and some...

I was due to travel Liverpool St to Cambridge and have ended up on the bustitution route via King's Cross. Two buses and two trains with a bus connection at Hitchin. I expect to get to Cambridge 2h11 late. Absolute chaos at the Potters Bar bustitution - presumably the GA passengers massively...

I believe this happens when there are no reservable seats even if there is advance fare availability, perhaps due to a large number of reservations on other through tickets or some kind of inventory error. Googling for "E00219" suggests you won't easily defeat this. It looks like the specific...

The XC looks to be booked for platform 3 with the GW being on 2. This entails a walk via the subway which can generally be done is less than two minutes unless the lift is required which can slow things down a tad.

Rather tediously FCC appears to have cancelled a number of fast services on Good Friday (mentioned on their website but not in the NRE bulletin related to this engineering work). These were showing in NRE a few weeks ago but have gone now and are showing as CAN on realtimetrains. I guess...

I was travelling on the 1T24 1845 Kings Cross to Kings Lynn (ended up terminating at Cambridge). Arrival at Cambridge was 99 minutes late. Problem was apparently with the points on the up fast at Hitchin which take trains laddering over from the down EC onto the down Shepreth branch. Something...

Penryn?

I'd like to thank this thread for letting me know about the opening of the tunnels. I've walked the Monsal Trail in the past before the tunnels opened but the current route is a fantastic enhancement to the experience. This weekend I was one of probably thousands who enjoyed the route. In my...

Platform 5 becomes 121 metres according to: http://www.networkrail.co.uk/browseDirectory.aspx?dir=\Network%20Code\Network%20Change\Completed%20Proposals\Anglia\NCG12011ANG001%20Cambridge%20Platform%205%20Variation&pageid=2889&root= Enough for a 4 car 317 but a bit tight for a 116m GC 180...

A couple of years ago in March as part of an ALR trip I tried Glasgow-Mallaig-Skye-Kyle in a day ahead of Kyle-Inverness-Wick-Inverness the next day. Ferry was cancelled due to high winds so ended up doing Mallaig back to Fort William and a coach to Kyle for a very late checkin to my hotel...

Any Permitted, no operator restrictions. My guess is that SWT haven't programmed their gates to accept these super off-peak travelcards yet - I think they are still relatively new (at least from Cambridge).

I've had travelcards fail to open the barriers at Vauxhall (National Rail) and Richmond many times so today I thought I'd note the error code - it was 105. This is with a Cambridge to Zones 1-6 super off-peak day travelcard with Network Railcard discount. Same thing on the exit barrier...