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Our local media in the Northeast (e.g. Newcastle Chronicle: https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/newcastle-manchester-trains-transpennine-timetable-27941604?utm_source=mynewsassistant.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=embedded_search_item_desktop) is reporting that one of the...

Hi all, Was the LNER service 5Z12 into London Liverpool Street last night that's showing on RTT a genuine service, or an anomaly? If so, was this just routine route learning or is there a planned diversion that way at some point soonish?

Hi all, I'm new to the "bus" side of things, but I was wondering if anyone knew where to find out who a new operator of a bus was going to be. I've been told that: Service 204 & 204A The contract for this service has been awarded by Durham County Council to another operator (from Go North...

Wasn't there a "student pass" ticket (some kind of discounted season) issued to some people via schools (it may have been a PTA product, thinking about it?)

With the number of staff shortages, you'd have thought that there would be a lot of advertised vacancies... except I can't seem to see any!

I have a vague memory of a member of train crew walking down a train cancelled at an intermediate point handing out tickets for a different service. From recollection, it was somewhere on the ECML at a commuter stop outside London, and the tickets were for (then) FCC trains. Perhaps this was...

Looking at Twitter, there seem to be passengers stranded at Peterborough and Huntington still :/

I should probably have said that I've already bought the tickets (about a month ago) for all of these journeys!

I have been planning some rail journeys this month, all of which used advance tickets. Do we know yet what my best course of action is for: (a) advance journeys on strike a day, (b) a return ticket with the outbound portion on a strike day and the return portion not on a strike day, and (c)...

I'm pretty sure there is / was a York to London non-stop service at some point?

If the question is "what would I run", I would certainly include spot hiring anything with a mainline certificate from the heritage railways (with their crews) - by being closed for a lengthy period, they've lost a lot of income, and this would surely give them a bit of a financial kick-start...

You mean, under my house? :p Only if I can have a private halt on the line! Seriously though, there's so many mine workings under here, you'd struggle to get a stable tunnel through without collapsing a lot of the buildings in the area. Why not just follow the Leamside all the way? The only...

If you re-open the Leamside line, there's definitely places with commuter demand on it, but it's probably 90%+ Newcastle-centric. ECML wise, the only sensible station would be one built where there is a lot of carparking, and where dropping a car off for a week or two wouldn't break the bank...

It's actually a pretty good plan, if we want to reduce the spread of this virus and the impact on the NHS, as it enables peaks to be spread out, and hence more manageable. It honestly doesn't seem as if these local lockdown measures are working, and we need something more severe to keep this...

This might be a silly question, but could the HST power cars run with MK4 coaches, as there are certainly a fair few of those lying around?