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The 1240 WMT Shrewsbury to Birmingham NS was allowed out before the delayed 1234 Holyhead to Birmingham International even though the latter could easily have got away at 1242. This is causing big consequential delays to the latter with missed connections and it is now terminating at New Street...

A quick question: are e- and mobile tickets bought online from one TOC valid on trains operated by another? Specifically we are planning a crawl between multiple pubs between Shrewsbury & Wolverhampton so want to know if an off peak day return bought online from West Midlands trains would be...

Why are there no through fares from Little Sutton (LTT), Overpool (OVE) (and Ellesmere Port, ELP itself) to Helsby (HSB) via Chester? The only fares on BRFares.com and at the ticket machines at these stations are "Via Ellesmere Port". With only two badly timed and very unreliable trains per...

The Astbury Light Railway, at Glebe Farm near Congleton, is scheduled to run for the last time on Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st January (1100-1530). https://www.facebook.com/GlebeFarmRailway/ 1705606826 Apparently an 88-metre long 545-tonne abnormal road will be travelling north from the...

On 4th November, I travelled from Little Sutton to Nottingham and back, changing at Liverpool. My ME train to Liverpool was on time, my EMR train to Nottingham arrived 43 minutes late. A simple case for EMR's Delay Repay system you would think. I should be entitled to a 25% refund from EMR on...

I was on the 1359 Hooton to Liverpool yesterday when it was held at Port Sunlight due to a serious medical emergency delaying the train in front which was halted at Bebington. Not wanting to risk missing the kick off at Goodison by hanging about, I caught a train back to Hooton to pick up my...

Northern are offering unlimited travel on their services for £10 per day (off-peak) or £17.50 per weekend. Prospective passengers simply have to collect two tokens from participating newspapers, fill in a form and hand it in at "a staffed station within the Northern network". Does anybody...

The Teesside Small Gauge Railway's website and Facebook page both say that they run every Sunday form 1 pm to 4 pm till the end of October. So I was less than enamoured when I visited last Sunday (17th Sep) and found the place deserted. Anybody know why? The weather was fine and the rest of...

Trains through Hooton were cancelled all day yesterday (Sunday 27th Aug) and earlier today due to flooding in the Hooton area. This did not surprise me as I was caught in a biblical downpour about 2230 on Saturday night and sat in my car outside my house for almost half an hour as I didn't want...

Recenttraintimes.co.uk is showing that, over the last 3 months, the 0633 ELP-HSB ran 32 times and was cancelled 30 times 1906 ELP-HSB ran 27 times and was cancelled 36 times This level of unreliability of what is verging on a parliamentary service strikes me as disgraceful.

Just checking - the off-peak return from Crewe to Wembley Central with a senior card is £59.90 while the corresponding return to Euston is £62.40. The NR journey planner suggest the CRE-WMB fare is valid doubling back at Euston. Can somebody please confirm that this is correct?

The platforms at most Merseyrail stations have modern electronic signs telling you the stations where the next train will stop. One exception is Hooton where the signs only show the final destination. This means that passengers don't know whether the next train is going to stop at stations...

Are extra trains stopping at Bordesley tomorrow (Sat 21st Jan) for the Birmingham v Preston game? The WMR, National Rail & Realtime trains websites are only showing the weekly call by the Whitlocks End to Worcester FS service at 1356.

My earliest rail trips were annual excursions circa 1960 for children of Bradford City Transport employees. We travelled on special trains from the original Bradford Exchange (resited 200yd south 13 Jan 1973) to Cleethorpes, Withernsea (CP 1964) & Liverpool Exchange (CP 1977) for the New...

This must rank as one of the oddest reasons for the disruption in the Runcorn area today. The 0747 LIV-EUS is running about 75 mins late so I should at least get compensation for missing my 1130 slot on the PO railway en route to Leyton Orient. Lichfield and Tamworth stops will be ditched

Old Shep is an old folk song written by Red Foley in 1936 about a young man who can't bear to put down his old faithful dog and lets him die of natural causes. The last few verses include So the years sped along and at last he grew old His eyesight was fast growin' dim Then one day, the...

Horton Park was a small station on the former Great Northern Bradford Exchange to Halifax and Keighley (via Queensbury) lines which opened on November 1st 1880. One of its main functions was to serve the adjacent Park Avenue football and cricket grounds, the former homes of Bradford (Park...

Which barmpot at TfW thought it appropriate to allocate a small 2-car class 150 for the 0939 Rhyl - Maesteg working yesterday? We are talking about a Saturday morning service along the North Wales coast at the start of the holiday season. Needless to say it arrived into Chester full to the...

Many years ago, the last train from Chester to Liverpool left at 2300 with a later train departing empty about 2330. I was a member of the Ellesmere Port & Neston Public Transport Liaison Committee at the time and we persuaded Merseyrail to run the 2330 in service to Hooton to provide a useful...

I went to my local Merseyrail station to buy my tickets for Saturday and reserve seats on trains from Liverpool to Alfreton and back. I was given reservations for my two trains but neither had an actual seat allocated. They just seemed to be some sort of permit to travel on those two workings...