Recent content by Royston Vasey

A Anytime Open Return is the outrageous £94.80. Anytime Day Return is £50.40. All according to BRFares. Can't see an obvious justification for £180.80 and they don't state that they've reviewed previous journey history, which they usually do in such retrospective cases. EDIT: the fares have...

Seems a lot. The Anytime Return is £50.40. Anytime Day Single is £47.40. Anytime 1st Day Single is £80.50.

Few 387s split or join these days anyway. Most of them switch between Kings Lynn fast and Cambridge stoppers as 8 cars all day. The 387s having SDO enabled this, with the handful of short platforms on the branch. It would be quite straightforward to drop 2x379s onto those diagrams. I fear what...

I do this out of habit when leaving any train toilet, out of courtesy for anyone sitting near the toilet, so they have to see and smell the toilet for as short a time as possible! Won’t do that if I’m ever on a 333 now

Crikey, that's a bit of luck, I got the previous train to Stevenage than planned and it ended up being the last one to make it all day. It was a calm dry afternoon, not typical tree down weather.

I too have a sparpreis Brussels-Frankfurt-Kassel Wilhelmshöhe and return as far as Frankfurt Airport next month. I've had two separate emails saying my itinerary is no longer possible and my ticket is now flexible, both ways. The emails aren't very helpful. Outbound suggests an alternative on a...

Quite so! I'm more of a Great Northern man but I do dabble to the east!

Either way, it seems signallers use live signalling diagrams the way the rest of us use post-it notes! :lol:

That would make the following data points a hell of a coincidence..... Admittedly ROO4 is an O not a zero Perhaps ROOx does mean "room for" and RM48 is referring to 9M48 for another reason completely.

Perhaps pathing conflicts caused by the Cambridges/Stansteds being diverted south of Cheshunt? Choosing the current hour northbound, the Cambridge runs through Cheshunt at 18 and 48, the Bishops Stortford at 25 and 52, the Stansted at 15, 29, 44 and 59. Of course, the we can't see the...

1O04 was this morning's 0511 Manchester to Bournemouth Voyager, BHM 0656 albeit through P1 not P4, but it didn't gain coaches at BHM https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:G24988/2024-04-19/detailed#allox_id=0 9M48 was this morning's 0548 Glasgow to Euston Pendo, due BHM 1006 which also...

Haven't seen this posted elsewhere. Line closure and replacement of the Downs Park Road overbridge north of Hackney Downs station for 16 days between Saturday 20th July and Sunday 6th August...

Trashy hatchet job I thought. And largely ignored the fact that our railways are underfunded and expensive because the government wants it that way,

Doesn't mean that at all. Bit tricky to board in Motherwell a southbound train that is starting at Preston!

I was going to say, they all look like luxury for a 2 hour hop! Even the 29000 looks comfier than a Turbostar!