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There are several sections of engineering work in East Anglia this weekend affecting Norwich to London journeys. On the GEML via Ipswich buses replace trains from Witham to Billericay and on the route via Cambridge buses replace trains on a shorter section between Ely and Cambridge North. In...

I'm booked on an Advance Single for the following trains: 10:30 Liverpool Street 12:25 Norwich 12:34 Norwich 13:06 Great Yarmouth I've received an email informing me the 12:34 Norwich - Yarmouth train has been cancelled. It invites me either to claim a refund on my ticket or take the next...

With planned Crossrail services from May 2023 now available on RTT, I thought I'd create some service diagrams showing peak / off-peak service. It's interesting to see the different service patterns. This is a work in progress - please highlight any mistakes (spelling mistakes, etc).

I'm interested to know how well organised Eurostar departures are at Rotterdam. I'm coming to London from the Netherlands in August. On the Sunday I'm travelling, there are 2x direct trains from Amsterdam but 3x direct trains from Rotterdam (I presume there are some kind of engineering works...

The "Online Safety Bill" is at report stage in parliament. It will introduce new compliance obligations on websites/apps that allow content to be shared and/or people to communicate with each other. A tech policy specialist, Heather Burns, has published a thought provoking article on this...

Since yesterday (Wednesday, 16th March) Paddington (Eastbound) trains have been passing through West Ealing station without stopping. A note on Tiger (https://tiger.worldline.global/WEALING/ciss) says "Trains towards Paddington will not be stopping at West Ealing due to an unstable wall near the...

I travelled from Milton Keynes (MKC) to Helsby (HSB) today via Warrington Bank Quay (WBQ). I wanted to reserve a seat on one of Avanti's "Standard Premium" carriages before I travelled, so I booked a Standard Premium advance from MKC to WBQ for £63.70. When I got to MKC station, I tried to...

I'd like to travel from London to a point near Chester (but also not too far from Runcorn / Warrington) in early September. I haven't travelled by train much since the start of the pandemic so I'm adapting to the Avanti rules that state seat reservations are mandatory. I'd like to travel in 1st...

I grew up close to Stowmarket (Suffolk) in the 1980s and I'm interested in what trains would have run through at this time. What locomotives / carriages were used on GEML services between Liverpool Street and Norwich before the class 86 locomotives were introduced upon electrification around...

I live in the Ealing / Hanwell area and today I cycled past Hanwell station. I was impressed with the refurbishment of this station, having last seen the outside of the station while works were in progress in 2019. I believe the refurbishment was completed in the summer, so it's been a little...

I'm trying to buy tickets for a journey in October. As I understand it, in normal times reservations open around 3 months / 90 days prior to travel. However, at the moment when I attempt to find/book a ticket from Plymouth to Chester I can't find tickets (anytime or advance) for sale from 7th...

The reductions in service due to Covid-19 are understandable. However, the TFL have said they've returned to a "Saturday" level of service across their network. It seems TFL Rail (West) services from Paddington have not reached Saturday levels while TFL Rail (East) services from Liverpool Street...

For anyone with time on their hands, who'd like to get a feel of what trains in USSR were like, some films from the 1980s are freely available online (no copyright infringement - they've been published by the original producers). As a side benefit, as long as you don't mind reading subtitles...

In the "New trains for East Midlands Franchise" thread, a photo of a poster shows the text "Gateless gateline trial at St Pancras". I've searched on the forum, but I haven't found any information about this. When I search online for "gateless gateline" pages are referring to a facial...

Acton Mainline / West Ealing / Hanwell are closed from 24th December to 1st January inclusive. My initial assumption was this was to allow progress to be made on their new station buildings. However, observing West Ealing on 29th December I didn't see significant changes. All the stations...

I'm intending to visit Bournemouth from London tomorrow. Bearing in mind I live in west London (Paddington is my easiest accessible London terminal) and the SWR strikes right now, I'm looking at the route from Paddington to Reading (GWR) then Reading to Bournemouth (Cross Country). At 1h55...

West Ealing station was originally due to be rebuilt starting in 2015 and open in 2017. Several delays hit this schedule, with little other than basic ground clearance happening until this year, with a construction contract finally signed in May 2019 between Network Rail and GRAHAM. GRAHAM also...

I recently travelled from London to Astana (aka "Nur-Sultan") in Kazakhstan by train. I visit Kazakhstan every year as it's where my other half is originally from - this time I was able to find a combination of rail tickets that was of comparable cost to a plane ticket, but due to work...

I've recently been purchasing tickets on pass.rzd.ru (the official website from Russian Railways) for a journey between London and Kazakhstan. I was amused to see souvenirs are offered for purchase when finalising your journey booking - presumably the items are passed to you by the provodnik...

Eurostar regularly sell Paris metro carnets from the onboard buffet/shop on their trains. Since they started running services to Amsterdam have they started selling GVB (tram/bus/metro) passes on those services too? If so, which of the 24/48/72/96 hour passes do they sell?