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I will be in Salamanca for a short while next week (January 24 2025) and I was wondering whether there is any traffic on the line yet? Even if it's just permanent way trains. Thanks in advance, Gary

I appreciate it is a few months away but I wonder whether there will be a diesel day between Christmas and New Year at the SVR this year. Last year's day was excellent though announced relatively late (not that this seemed to impact attendance!!!), so any advanced notice would be appreciated.

Hi, I consider myself more a photographer, but I've started to make videos, around my home area of North Wales but more widely including the Douro Valley in Portugal, especially the fantastic 1400s! I hope you enjoy. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMYcTLkGckACfU8D1CEzUug Gary

Hi I'm off to Mongolia to do a rail related photography tour from the 14th to 21st August. There are spaces on the tour if anyone is interested. The itinerary offers the most interesting and highlighted railfanning places of the Trans-Mongolian railway through the wide steppe and high...

Hi I know this won't be everyone's idea of a great holiday for lots of reasons, but I am looking to see if there is interest in a rail trip to North Korea once its borders have reopened to foreign travellers? I had hoped to join Juche Travel's "Grand Rail Tour" in October/November 2019, but I...

I was just thinking there is very little diversity of contrast on the website, lots of grey, whether text boxes or buttons. A bit like not having contrasting doors or buttons on a train! So just for a bit of fun, if RailUKforums was a train, for example an EMU would it be PRM/TSI compliant?

Hi, It has been 3 weeks since GWR would have received my tickets back for refund (when everything was first kicking-off with the lock down). I was wondering how long I should expect for the refund to be processed, especially given the current situation. I wouldn't be so anxious usually, but...

Just booked a ticket from Paddington to Penzance on the sleeper using GWR's website. Gutted the berth supplements don't apply to railcards, resulting in their being very little difference between the normal "offer" prices. Email confirmation is intriguing. Despite me thinking the origin...

Hi I can see these are in the working timetable on RTT, but run as required. Do these still run and if so how frequently? Thanks Gary

Hi everyone Ever since VT lost the West Coast franchise I've found performance to be terrible. Is this coincidence, with failures of infrastructure or just a lack of interest as a result of losing the franchise. The last couple of weeks have been poor in my experience, cancelled trains on...

I apologise in advance if this has already been well trodden... I regularly use Thameslink services from St Albans to central London and return. As my work expense policy allows it I buy a first class ticket which gives me a good chance of a seat at peak times, while allowing me to work with...

I'm sitting in the quiet coach, A on a Pendolino in a priority seat. These are at the end of both coach ends, but what's the sense of having them next to the non-public door?

^^^ Tbilisi ! Hi everyone I'm interested to learn from the experience of others who have travelled on the sleeper from Istanbul east to Tbilisi and Baku. My biggest challenge is booking tickets online. Is this possible? I've tried Istanbul to Kars and it appears possible but almost every...

Interesting one, I am sitting in first class on the 16.55 Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston. Pretty quiet as usual. Another passenger just walked through and asked the guard/host "how much for a first class upgrade?". Without checking tickets the guard/host replied "£50". I know there is...

I hope this is posted in the right place as it relates to ticket purchases on Virgin Trains' website. Near the end of the booking process there is a question that asks your reason for travelling citing the reason "we just want to tailor your journey". In my mind this is a sneaky market survey...

Hi everyone I've had a busy summer, visiting a number of diesel galas, taking a train overland to Denmark and travelling on all 4 days of the GBRf 18 Out of the Ordinary charity rail tour. Who would have thought it, a class 87 at Paddington, 92 at Blackpool North amongst other treats. My...

Over the last couple of months I’ve been using first class on SWR from Aldershot to Waterloo. With no exception people with standard class tickets sit in first and then pay the difference on the rare occasion that their ticket is checked. How come penalty gates aren’t enforced?

So what do you think of this? ;) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-44613633

Hi Recent photos from the Epping Ongar, Swanage and Severn Valley Railway Diesel Galas, plus other items of interest (such as a charter at the Foxfield Railway and the Talyllyn Railway) can be found here: http://railwayherald.com/imagingcentre/photographer/2421 I hope you like them as much...

Hi I've got a Canon SLR which I've used for the last few years (well recently upgraded but still Canon). Last weekend I was at the Severn Valley Railway diesel festival but I noticed my photos are a bit fuzzy in places. Likewise at the Swanage diesel gala the weekend before. These are the...