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I have a DB itch that needs scratching and am looking at some route options heading home from Berlin. While the direct route back via Hannover and Köln is fine are there any suggestions for slightly less direct ICE alternatives that would still get me back to Bruxelles-Midi at a reasonable...

FWIW the Cornwall method is obviously superior. Cream should not be a butter replacement and anyone whom believes differently is a heathen and a wastrel. I've wasted a few minutes creating this poll purely to understand how many of you are in the wrong ;)

I know there was an old Derail Valley thread some time back but it didn't get much attention. In case anyone still remembers it, DV has just received a large update and has been renamed to Derail Valley Simulator. Huge improvements and additions have been provided across almost every aspect of...

I hold the unused return leg ticket of a London area to Glasgow area off peak return bought from Avanti. Out of original necessity I'd originally made the return reservation for today (Dec 13th) however the strike put paid to that plan. Seperate circumstances dictated I needed to drive back...

Heading to Berlin late next week via Brussels and then two ICE legs via Cologne. Assuming Eurostar get me into Brussels on time will there be any issue with the 20 minute connection for the ICE? There's supposedly a security check in place for onward travel to Germany, etc. On the plus side my...

Simple question but I've seen conflicting advice about it online. Are SPT Roundabout day tickets available via TVMs? Ta.

For years I've been curious to know if there has been any usage of the stub track that disappears behind the feeder station at Waterloo towards where the old Necropolis station used to be. During the 2017 track renewals the south sidings were rationalised and I was surprised to see the stub...

Just had a DR claim rejected this morning. Off-peak return from Surbiton to Glasgow Central bought online from Avanti and picked up as a paper ticket from Surbiton. For the outbound trip on Oct 22nd a seat reservation was made on the third leg (17:27 from Euston arriving Glasgow 22:10) Delayed...

President Biden's long awaited infrastructure plan was unveiled today, a proposal priced at a modest $2 trillion. As part of that, $621 billion is designated as transportation expenditure. Per the clear breakdown at the Washington Post, $85 billion will go towards the modernization of mass...

Watched the excellent footage of a 2020 run from Ipswich to Stratford courtesy of Driver's Eye View UK. Great quality and worth an hour and twenty minutes of everyone's time if you're into cab view vids. (if the author's on here I hope you don't mind me posting the embed link) It certainly...

Hopefully an easily addressable question. I have an off peak return from GLC to Surbiton, intending to use midweek alongside a Sleeper room supplement. Will that ticket be valid via Edinburgh? Direct Glasgow sleeper services don't return for the next few weeks. Thanks all.

As there were a fair few Scottish independence conversations going on in the Brexit thread I thought it'd be useful to create a new one to discuss where Scotland goes from here and how it may happen (or not!) Personally I'm not a believer in re-running referenda in order to get the 'right'...

Moderator note: split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/trivia-most-annoying-sound-made-by-a-train.211948/ Worst noise that comes from a train is from the passengers. Noise cancelling headphones ftw.

Just seen some great old footage by Soi Buakhao of Bournemouth Central back in 1988. The tape starts with a single 73/1 hauling what was left of a REP plus 4-TC into the up platform. I'd never previously noticed that the REPs were being picked off carriage by carriage in order to supply motors...

So I've done the unthinkable and built my first gaming-spec PC in about fifteen years. Decent Ryzen processor, loads of memory and even an RTX gpu. All those years ago I was a fan of creating routes in the Trainz editor which was easy to master, or the horrendously clunky editor in Microsoft...

GWR have recently posted this full length cab ride from May 18th of last year, the last day of GWR HSTs operating on the GWML. Worth over three and a half hours of your time :)

Hoping some of you may have a memory of this publication and its title.. As a kid in the 80s I was given a book which detailed two fictional towns (both beginning with R, I believe.. can't remember either town name) and their relationship with the railway - through the industrial boom years...

Per Yorkie's suggestion on the 'remote working' thread ( https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/remote-working-preferences-in-the-longer-term.203448/page-2#post-4537518 ) - it was suggested that not having to commute provides us with the opportunity to get a bit more sleep in. Maybe it's the...

Have been taking some well-earned downtime in Texas and Colorado this week, and I find myself in Denver for the first time in about twenty years. Union Station's rebuild and renaissance is really quite striking. With that said, sadly the automobile still rules. Here I am during the Friday...

Following on from the discussion in https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/florida%C2%92s-new-high-speed-train-brightline.146463 , ConstructionDive reports that the state of California has approved issuance of a $3.2bn bond to help get the XpressWest project started...