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1. This site may help you evaluate the delays https://www.zugfinder.net/en/train-NJ_236 As you can see, punctuality is reasonable but it can go pear-shaped- quite typical for sleeper trains. 2. Stuttgart station is a dead-end terminus so changing platforms isn't difficult BUT it is undergoing a...

Swanage, then and now. Sentimental reasons really. (The OP didn't specify it had to have a current NR service.) Whitby when it's not too busy, Weymouth and Scarborough would be high on my list.

If the person for whom the ticket was purchased had a valid railcard AND you selected the correct railcard when booking, that would be perfectly in order. Selecting the wrong railcard can lead to problems, as the T&Cs are not identical - and if that railcard is itself invalid, that compounds...

The timings on the SNCF website allow for the RRB but don't actually mention its existence. It adds about an hour to the normal journey. It affects 18-20 May at Amberieu. Unfortunately the very scenic alternative Martigny-Chamonix-St Gervais brings you to another RRB down to La Roche S/Foron...

But the present DC timetable has headways down to 3min as far as Stonebridge Park. The nominal headway would be 3m 45s.

You are quite right, but by then they were DEMU from the looks of it and the OP mentioned steam.

sorry, meant with present signalling.

I make it 8tph Bakerloo and 4tph NR so another 4 on the DC lines should work..... ....but as you say that causes other problems!

2-hourly is OK as is, if not ideal for bus connections, but makes it awkward to run any extras owing to the single platform at Blaenau.

And the Swanage table is at most 50ft, which is rather limiting - I think it can take a 2-6-0.

Most likely because your ticket wasn't valid for the train you caught and the barriers might have rejected it. .

Quite: DB trains routinely operate in reverse formation, and my experiences on that route amounted to (1) 1st at the rear from Altona (and a compartment coach too!) (2) ICE3s vice hauled stock starting at Odense (due to engineering work).

Here's an older thread which will help: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/paytrain-ticket-machines-1960s.192404/ It mentions Setrights being used in South Wales, which I hadn't realised.

It would normally have been Oxted then Groombridge, if you couldn't make one of the few through trains.

Just to add, in case it's not obvious: the Circumvesuviana is the local inter-urban narrow-gauge rail network (significant parts now underground) which uses Porte Nolana Station in Naples, very close to the FS Centrale station. For the Naples-Rome section, the line via Latina used by slower...