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What is the point or gain in entering fictitious running times? Yesterday’s 7E25 shows as having run into Crewe station but it didn’t. Instead of running from South Yard to the station for a run-round it just went south from Basford Hall Yard but times were manually entered showing it running...

Why has the Merseyrail network retained so much operational flexibility when everywhere else has lost it? For example there are various stations with crossovers, e.g. Town Green, Maghull, Hillside + others which permit a service to still run much of the way when there is engineering work or...

Mod note: posts moved from this thread National Rail says there are no fares available from Dorking West to Waterloo, so if it is not a valid route the RPI is probably technically correct and the journey they had just made did start at Guildford as no connections were available as they were not...

Clearly, if you are caught without a ticket and are aggressive or abusive you are not going to endear yourself to the person dealing with you but is the opposite true? I encountered an unexpected (by me) situation last week. There was a ticket check and a woman asked to buy a ticket. The...

I visited Woodhouse station recently and noticed it has a new, yet to open, toilet block. Woodhouse station isn’t particularly well-used, there is zero chance of anybody changing trains there and the toilets were obviously for rail passengers only – you need a RADAR key or to scan your ticket’s...

I semi-regularly use a public footpath through a field where 3 horses live. On one side is the WCML on which all sorts of trains pass, including noisy diesels, and on another a line branching off the mainline which has DMUs which are also fairly noisy as they are often accelerating. The horses...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/industry-preparing-for-national-strikes.232025 The point about limited effect due to home working is true though. Most office workers now have the equipment and knowledge to work from home so if there are strikes it won't be the...

For the last few weeks there seems to have been a reluctance to use platform 3 at Preston. It is still used so presumably there isn’t a points or track fault but they seem to use any platform but 3 if they can. Today, for example, the 15:17 – Euston was due to arrive at platform 4 and there...

66794 is named ‘Steve Hannam’. When it arrived in this country it carried the name ‘Ted Gaffney’. While there are many locos that have carried more than one name have any others been named after more than 1 person? 86259 doesn’t count as Peter Pan is fictional and 37425 doesn’t either as...

My biggest issue with station auto-announcements is they are totally useless at times of disruption – the precise times when you need information. When services are cancelled the auto-announcement states ‘The xx:xx service to X is cancelled’. You may or may not get a reason but certainly no...

Mod Note: Posts #1 - #9 originally in this thread. TPE services are packed because they have a policy of over selling dirt cheap Advance tickets and leaving virtually no seats for passengers with walk up tickets. Nothing to do with the rolling stock, and a pretty disgraceful way to run a railway.

Has the advent of 24 hour access to the internet reduced people’s ability to communicate face to face or has it just made us more aware of people who struggled already? There are so many threads which boil down to ‘I did/said this, they did/said that and the end result is I didn’t get what I...

I had a trip on 142009 this afternoon and the doors opened automatically at stations. I’ve never seen that before. Is it common or was it a fault or is it a special modification on that unit only? It was the front unit of a 4-car so the guard wasn’t even in that unit.

Note: split from Creation of class 230 DEMUs from ex-LU D78s by Vivarail That is utter rubbish. Passengers are worthy of better than Class 230s. Nothing to do with buying votes but passengers in the north finally getting at least some half decent stock. Some of the tripe on here is...