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I am going from London to Kings Lynn next weekend and the trains are replaced by buses between Royston (or Audley End) and Cambridge. Going by train via Peterborough is quicker but it is unclear whether I can use a normal ticket that way during the replacement or would have buy a ticket or...

We’re travelling on a weekday (26 July).

I’m trying to buy tickets from Glasgow to London at the end of July. The National Rail journey planner is currently telling me “No fares available for this journey” and “Train times from Saturday 17 July onwards may not be available and current timetables are subject to change”. Is there another...

Is it the most serious Pendolino accident anywhere since Grayrigg?

When the compartments were ripped out of the middle carriages of the 501s they were left with no handhelds apart from one luggage rack at each end.

Rotherhithe, with two bridges.

Alstom are building faster trains than that for Africa, but never mind.

Depending on what you count as being different operators, Southern, Thameslink and Gatwick Express at Hassocks, Burgess Hill and Wivelsfield (2 each).

Could they do that if they got lighter replacement engines?

Are these the very wide carriages I rode up the Douro valley a few years ago? I was quite sure at the time that the 2+2 seating was first class and not particularly mean with it.

The bimode version has a power pod that is mounted on two bogies.

The metro in Lyon with its distinctive rounded trains. They were still orange when I rode them (not my picture though).

From Flickr: Gresley buffet car W9135E at Exeter St Davids, 7-8-76.

Bombardier and Alstom are willing to make joint bids for Belgium. What is the difference here?

Like the Great Western then?