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Travelled on sleeper from Vienna to Amsterdam. At Passau police boarded, knocking on doors at 11pm. Opened door they took one look at us then shut the door again. Is this a usual nightly occurrence?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/feb/05/van-risk

Stephensons will be running new 8A service March to Cottenham from 31 October. Will there be a requirement for the bus to wait for any delayed Stagecoach Citi8 arrival in Cottenham on the return run otherwise it would be pointless.

On a train, someone on mobile had a poor connection, kept saying "can you hear me?" Completely out of character I said " we can all here you". Didn't get an applause from fellow passengers but there were audible sniggers.

Just noticed that National Express, on their website, suggest getting off at Stratford on a normal day anyway, to save 45 minutes. Doesn't show confidence in being able to operate a timetabled service, though I still prefer to get on at VCS for the return journey.

Whenever I use National Express Cambridge to London, always get off at Stratford for the tube, always quicker than crawling the rest of the way

Travelled First Class on Avanti last year, Glasgow to London. Although we managed to secure our booked seats the train was rammed and First Class declassified. No great loss to us but Avanti offered us First Class return tickets as compensation. All very good but our bookings for BH week are...

Most passengers including Dutch holidaymakers used a Chipkaart which worked, I don't think think they lost much due to a few passengers not being able to use Chip & Pin.

We used bus from CenterParcs at De Eemhof to Almere Centrum, Chip & Pin machine was broken, same bus used on route so journeys were free.

Thanks for interesting responses, I suppose I was really thinking if there were plans to stop there before the service was established.

Just travelled London to Amstetdam on Eurostar. I should have realised that it would go through or rather under Antwerp Centraal, I wonder were there ever any plans for it to stop there?

If I am booked on a London-Amsterdam train and it terminates at Brussels, will Eurostar arrange for my journey to be completed with another carrier?

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My wife and I had first class tickets from Glasgow Central to London Euston at 12.40 last Friday on Avanti WC. Although we managed to take our booked seats, the train was overcrowded and first class de-classified. Is there a method of claiming some compensation for the devalued service?

Thank you, I have picked up on that thread since posting. My only concern is if restrictions are altered by end of July, we may find the two vacant seats at the table of 4 will be occupied my others while two members of the family are sitting elsewhere, which in First Class would be in single...