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Are Chiltern going to release any advance fares over the Christmas period, specifically Friday 23rd December from Marylebone to Birmingham and Thursday 29th December from Birmingham to Marylebone? If so, when will they be released? At the moment no advance fares are shown on these dates.

We now know the queen’s funeral will be on Monday 19th September at Westminster Abbey, starting at 11am https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/10/queen-elizabeths-funeral-will-be-held-on-monday-19-september Given there will be very likely a large number of mourners travelling to London...

What are the best and worst value annual season tickets, for someone commuting every weekday during both the morning and evening peaks? The best value season ticket would be the one that saves the most money compared to buying five anytime returns a week, and vice versa for the worst value...

What things does the UK railway industry do well in, particularly when compared to other similar developed countries in Europe and Asia where rail is a common means of passenger transport?

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/snow-hill-lines-likely-to-stay-at-4tph-long-term.233228/#post-5713620 This could be a crazy suggestion, but how feasible would it be to convert the Moor Street to Dorridge section of the Snow Hill Lines to Midland Metro operation...

Many cities in Europe have a tourist tax that is levied on overnight stays by visitors. Given London gets quite a few tourists every year and tourism has bounced back quite quickly from the pandemic, could a £5 to £10 tax levied either per room or per person on visitors staying overnight in...

Out of curiosity, how busy are trains typically on Easter Sunday? I have always assumed with most things shut on Easter Sunday, trains are mostly carrying around fresh air on Easter Sunday. Is it the quietest day on the network, or is another day, which I assume would be New Year’s Day quieter?

One thing it is fair to say about that the tube is that it is rather noisy, with the deep level underground lines being particularly loud. In my experience, on most of the the deep line sections it is hard to have a conversation with someone near to you. Parts of the Jubilee Line in Central...

In early June I am planning on travelling from Krakow to Prague on the direct daytime train, the Cracovia, which takes 7 hours. Is it worth booking 1st class for this trip given the length of the journey? For the date I want to travel on, 1st class is £29 and 2nd class is £12.

This railway would form a semi circle around the eastern side of Birmingham, starting in Wolverhampton and ending in Longbridge. The line would utilise parts or the full length of the existing Walsall to Wolverhampton, Sutton Park, Birmingham to Leicester, Camp Hill and Cross City lines. From...

Have Avanti withdrawn their Super Off-Peak fares from London to the West Midlands? Both the National Rail and Avanti show the standard Off-Peak is the only flexible fare available at the times the Avanti Super Off-Peak used to be available.

Over the past 30 years there has been a massive proliferation of coffee shops in the UK, to the extent that now almost every High Street, medium to large railway station or shopping centre seems to have a least one of these coffee places listed. This poll asks you to vote for your favourite...

At West Hampstead in Northwest London you have the Thameslink, North London, Jubilee, Metropolitan and Chiltern Lines all in very close proximity, there is probably less than 200 metres between all of them. However currently there are separate stations for Thameslink, the North London and...

Is it just me, or are these trains particularly unreliable? The 1100 which I think on Saturdays is a class 68 I was meant to use this morning from London Marylebone was cancelled due to a train fault. Just over a year ago, another class 68 train service I on was delayed by 15 minutes leaving...

When GBR becomes active, what do you think should happen to the LNWR slow services from London to Birmingham? From what I understand, GBR will set all fares and receive all fare revenue, so whoever runs these services will not benefit financially from poaching passengers from Avanti’s services...

The UK government has committed to achieving net zero carbon by 2050, in which any carbon emissions will have to be offset by other means, such as carbon capture. Given it is very unlikely all lines will be electrified by 2050, what will happen to those unelectrified lines and services along...

A few weeks ago I discovered that St Petersburg in Russia has a station called Finland Station. Are there any other examples of railway or metro stations named after countries, either in the UK or abroad? I have put this in the International Transport section as my guess is that most examples...

I have just had a look at the websites of four well known museums and art galleries in London and all four of them are still restricting entry through the use of timed tickets. Three of them do allow walk ins, but say you may have to wait and entry is not guaranteed. One of them, the Tate Modern...

Would it be a good idea to introduce first class panoramic carriages on scenic routes such as the West Highland and the Settle to Carlisle lines to attract higher paying tourists to these routes? Such carriages would be similar to those used on the Glacier and Bernina Expresses in Switzerland...

From reading a few blogs and watching some Youtube videos, one thing I have learnt is that high speed rail in the UK is very expensive compared to other developed countries. From example one video suggested high speed rail in the UK is almost ten times more expensive to build per kilometre than...