Recent content by EricS

Probably 11.30 am Edinburgh to Kings Cross, 17th Jan. The information on the page you linked to is very detailed and useful, thanks. I wonder whether it's the same engineering works that the vague warning message refers to or not.

For the journey I actually want to make it's East Coast, but I put "X" because I'd noticed the message appear for many different operators that I tried out of curiosity. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- I guess I'll go ahead and book then. Just didn't fancy a long rail...

I want to book a ticket for the 17th or 18th of January 2015, but National Rail Enquiries shows a yellow triangle with the text: where X is the operator. As far as I can tell this applies to any operator in any part of Britain. For example, Cardiff to Bangor and Kyle of Lochalsh to Garve both...

Ah yes, 11:49 - Carlisle 13:20 - Warrington Bank Quay my mistake when copying it over, the booking confirmation from Arriva Trains Wales did include it :)

Thanks for the advice, I'll see how I feel if the situation arises.

I'm going to attempt a rather long Sailrail journey, as follows: 06:50 - Inverness 09:57 - Haymarket (Edinburgh) 10:12 - Haymarket (Edinburgh) 11:32 - Carlisle 13:26 - Warrington Bank Quay 13:53 - Chester 14:23 - Chester 16:15 - Holyhead 17:15 - Holyhead 19:15 - Dublin Port (Irish Ferries)...

The 0650 Scotrail Inverness to Edinburgh did run and apparently some Inverness-based East Cost staff travelled on it.

Thanks for that, I'll assume it's very unlikely to run.

There's no mention on the East Coast or JourneyCheck sites of whether the 07:55 Inverness to Kings Cross train will run tomorrow morning (as far as I can see). Does anyone have any idea whether this will run, or when they will start putting out information for tomorrow (Friday the 6th)? Thanks

What about simply having Scotrail operate Voyagers between Inverness/Aberdeen and Edinburgh, as suggested in this article in the Scotsman last month? ‘Bring tilting trains to Aberdeen, Inverness’ call

I've successfully used the combination of Advance and rewards single on Highland Chieftain for precisely the same reason. I even reserved the same seat using their website. I didn't specifically tell the guard about combination I was using: I simply showed the Inverness to Pitlochry advance at...

I looked reasonably carefully at the station and its signs when I was there. The station plan on National Rail shows one "barrow crossing" at the southbound end of the platforms. In reality, there are two barrow crossings, one at each end of the platforms. They both have two signs. The signs...

I've just discovered using Google Maps that there was a way to get from the public road to Platform 1: walking on an unpaved, un-signposted road through a forest... for 4.3 miles! Surely passengers aren't expected to do that. The line's not electrified. The only trains I've been on there are...

Someone I know recently needed to catch a Northbound train from platform 1 of Barrhill station. The only way to that side is via crossings signposted with two signs: "stop look and listen (etc)" and "passengers must not cross the line (etc)". After puzzling for a few minutes about whether they...

More detail in this STV article: Rail fares to be reduced by up to 41% as pricing gaps are tackled