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Coming from Gatwick Airport, an off-peak day travelcard route Thameslink Only is £18.30 (and a super off-peak for Weekends only is £15.20), while the off-peak daily cap on Oyster/Contactless is £23.70. It's been the case as long as I can remember that it's a fair bit cheaper to get a paper...

If you wanted to travel to eg Mouscron or Kortrijk (both just over the border from Lille), which are Belgian stations, then would getting off at Lille Europe, walking to Lille-Flandres and getting the TER four or five stops be valid? Or does Any Belgian Station require you to travel via Brussels...

On the Barcelona metro the older turnstile type ticket gates (as seen here) require the ticket to be put in on the left-hand side, the newer "portal" type gates (as seen here, image from trenscat.com) need the ticket to be put in on the right. The turnstile gates are being replaced with the...

Depending on exactly how you are defining this, there are six tracks between Madrid-Atocha and Madrid-Chamartín: Two Iberian-gauge on the original Túnel de la Risa via Recoletos Two Iberian-gauge on the newer Túnel de la Risa via Sol Two standard-gauge on the recently-opened high speed line (no...

Two very different examples: In Berlin a single ticket is valid for 120 minutes and break of journey is allowed, but travel must always be in one direction and so return trips are excluded. The ticket loses validity 120 minutes from validation so if you were to board a tram 119 minutes after...

There are a couple of towns around Barcelona with lines on different gauge networks (as far as sizeable towns go, Manresa as mentioned and Martorell are both on metre-gauge FGC lines and Iberian gauge Adif/RENFE lines,and both Terrassa and Sabadell are termini for the standard-gauge FGC lines...

Not too far from Canfranc, the (Madrid to) Burgos direct line was mostly closed after a tunnel collapse in 2011, trapping a maintenance vehicle. About 30km at the Madrid end remains open as part of the Madrid commuter network, and some freight runs over the northern end of the line, but around...

As far as I'm aware Cerbère/Portbou on the French/Spanish border had infrastructure for border checks (and I've had my passport checked at both a couple of times). I'm not sure whether Puigcerdà/La Tour de Carol do/did but I would have thought so.

We took the Proastiakos to Corinth - the new town is nice enough if nothing spectacular, but you can get to the ruins of old Corinth (we ended up getting a taxi from the station) and that is well worth the visit if you haven't been there already - and also the Corinth canal (and the Diolkos...

Out of interest I just tried to plan a route from Woolwich to Old Street on the NR Journey Planner to see if it would route me via Liverpool Street/Moorgate and instead it is suggesting to change at Farringdon, take the Circle line back two stops and then Great Northern from Moorgate to Old...

Just to pick up on what was said earlier about there not being any MD trains in Catalunya - that's unfortunately not true (at least on the R11, the line from Barcelona up to Girona, Figueres and the French border) - the timetables (available here) indicate some trans as being "R" (Regional) and...

There was, way back, a plan for a Madrid to Lisbon standard-gauge HSL via Badajoz but the Portuguese cancelled their side of it in 2012 as fallout from the recession. At the moment, it looks like the most likely entry point for high speed rail from Spain into Portugal would be along the Atlantic...

There is already a small portion of triple gauge track in the port that you can see on Google Street View: https://goo.gl/maps/Ha3yZFAVgVEQE6Kc7 Also just to clarify, the standard gauge route from the French border down to Barcelona is the new (opened in 2013) high speed line which was built as...

Lye and Lee

How about electrifying Carlisle to Whitehaven coming down from the other end as well? That should give enough time to charge the batteries and also moves at least some services to being fully under the wires, plus that part of the line isn't the "pretty" part to start with :)

My understanding is that these trains won't use the new line until the new Nimes station opens, which is due (as far as I know) to happen later on this year, therefore I would imagine that from the timetable change on 15 December the trains will be rerouted - but this is just supposition and I...

There's no platform B as the A to J refer to the lines rather than the platforms, and there are no platforms serving line B - there's a track plan available at https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gare_de_Dijon-Ville#/media/File:Gare_Dijon_Ville_schema_voies.svg. There also appears to be a track K...

This happened in Cumbria a few months ago: http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/Cumbrian-woman-barred-from-boarding-train-because-she-had-alcohol-in-luggage-9ef9328d-71d2-4c96-81bc-b710fea0c27d-ds

By the look of it you caught a long distance rather than regional service - in Catalonia at least, the regional services are unreserved and you don't have to go through the security check. On that (East Coast/Mediterranean Corridor) route, the highest quality long distance trains (in my opinion)...

Depending on your definition of a station, Espanya/Pl. Espanya station on the Barcelona metro 122km away has 1672mm gauge (L1), 1435mm standard gauge (L3) and metre gauge (L8/FGC). Interestingly the broad gauge on L1 is the original Spanish broad gauge whereas the broad gauge at La Tour de Carol...