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On re-entering the station after the event, staff were standing in front of the readers stopping people from using tapping in. In the end, they autocompleted my journey, but incorrectly due to tap in and out at Blackfriars to grab a coffee from Costa - they assumed I had returned to my origin...

I travelled via Thameslink/Great Northern to Alexandra Palace today for the fireworks, and upon arrival, all contactless/oyster readers were disabled and covered up. A member of GTR staff was shouting something through the platform PA about TfL, but it was unintelligible. Do they expect the...

The sleeper is 16 coaches of Mk5 stock when it leaves Euston. The only technical limitation further up the routes on diesels are the ETS index of the locos.

An industry leader has today put out an internal statement that this article isn't entirely accurate at best. GBRTT isn't being stood down, and much of the work is ongoing to carry out the reform desired, mainly in the Fares, Ticketing and Retail space. The only thing that's under question is...

I did EUS - FTW last night, and it indeed didn't feel very busy when checking in for any of the portions. Just popped back to Morrisons at FTW and noticed there were four carriages stabled so indeed that's two sleepers (presumably one PRM), one club car and one seated. That's 7 x Classic, 6 x...

Can’t get enough locos tonight for the lowlander. Disappointing indeed. They really should be offering a partial refund for these eventualities - can’t imagine any other business getting away with not providing the advertised service and offering customers absolutely f*** all. (Yes, I know...

Can confirm 1S25 is just pulling out of Wembley Yard now about half an hour late. Not meant to be able to take a wrong turn on the train

On the Highlander tonight. Was rescheduled to earlier time presumably because it was timetabled up the ECML, and have to do a runaround at Wembley. However, we are very much heading up the WCML, now passing Watford. Quite odd, don’t you think?

Anyone know why CS isn't running on Good Friday but is on Easter Sunday? It's not listed on the service alterations. NRE says WCML is closed between EUS and MKC (listed only under Avanti amendments, not CS) until Easter Monday, but that's fairly normal and it's running up from Euston via ECML...

To be honest, in my experience it's a bit of both. On the journey I mentioned, it was Serco who could have provided some kind of customer service recovery from not being able to offer the service that I had paid for, but chose to just say 'sorry' and do nothing except just get me to the...

Have travelled on CS 5 times so far this year, in Double once, club once and classic 3 times, with one more journey to take on Friday in Classic. I like the Mk5s. I think CS have specified a really nice product, I'm always very comfortable in the bed, and especially if I'm in the middle of the...

Last night’s Highlander picked up 56 minutes delay outside Lockerbie, 10 mins outside Dalmuir, 20 mins at Helensborough, 15 minutes to Crianlarich and another 20 mins to Fort William, arriving 134L :!: Was only 54L leaving Edinburgh after splitting. Anyone know what happened? Friend’s first...

Official photos out on the Facebook page. Does anyone know what RVAR upgrades it's has, as it's still got those old non-compliant door buttons?

FYI Here’s the mockups of the interior

Any investment is welcome, and I’m sure there’ll be some lovely works, but really £500mil is a drop in the ocean for reopening actually closed lines.