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I have an kind of dilemma which I'm not sure what the best option is for my situation. We are arriving at Paddington, and we need to get to Watford junction which I see it ant in a numbered zone but part of London. The single is £12.80, but we has discussions about maybe going into central...

Tomorrow 4th April is supposed to be the day when ORR release station usage estimates for 2011-12. Is this still the case or has the date been moved?

When the management of bristol temple meads and reading are transferred to network rail what station would be the largest managed by the great western franchise? Can't seem to find any list online of there managed stations.

From 16th to 22nd between plymouth/liskared and gunnislake there is engineering works. Does anyone know what they are doing? Must be something extensive for a week. Can't see, to find any info on any official websites, merely detailing service changes. Anyone know what is going on here?

Would there be any sort of data to indicate what the most travelled route between two stations is, which do not have a direct rail service. I.e I traveled between Paignton and plymouth and was told they see many tickets between the two. So it had me thinking what is the most travelled route...

I was thinking that all stations on the network should have uniform designs when it comes to station signage. Was in camberley a few weeks back, and the station and surrounding stations had a simple blue with white font and a white line below. Was very smart. All the network should follow this...

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-21380938 Seems to be a dawn in a new age of branch lines. :)!

Can't seem to find a the reading improvements thread. However I have a question regarding the work on the London side. 2 weeks ago I was travelling on the north downs line from north camp, and on approach into reading they have constructed a single line which branches off from the north downs...

Is the future of our railways in the form of tram-trains. I mean for example we have lost the oldham loop to trams. We will be shortly losing Sheffield to Rotherham to tram trains. Is this sort of rail format the future? Do we envisage the future as heavy rail trunk routes with branch lines...

How come the cross-country route no longer uses the west cost main line past Manchester via Carlisle anymore? I used to travel plymouth-Glasgow via Carlisle way back when I was wee. But I see it now goes via Newcastle and Edinburgh before going to Glasgow central? Is this a thing the current...

Has there every been any examples of heritage and preserved railways being taken over by national rail?. I mean if I was NR and I wanted to use a specific line for NR passenger services would it be easy for me to do such a thing? Could they have a compulsory purchase order to take over the...

The plymouth valley railway, reopened today, on its 50th anniversary of the line closure ( 29th December 1962). Today saw trains travelling to the newly constructed Plym Valley platform which was opened today. It's a reopened section of the old south Devon and tavistock railway. There are some...

There has been calls down here to build a new line avoiding the sea wall at dawlish, the floods seem to have reopened this particular issue. It's a good read, explains how the per war government was going to divert the line and what plans it made. If the line was seen as " not fit for purpose"...

Hey, Well the situation is i ahve just come out of Uni, and i am trying to look for a job. How fustrating the process is sometimes. But i am interested in rail and rail transport and would love to work in the industry. However i dont want to be a train driver i just want a simple station job...

The St Ives Bay Line has grown incrideably over the past year; St Erth jumps from 75,248 to 120,770 (+ 60%) Lelant Saltings rose from 622 to 17,224 (+ 2669%) Lelant jumps from 324 to 1,842 (+ 469%) Carbis Bay rises 7,980 to 55,334 (+ 593%) St Ives grows aswell from 154,502 to 258,530 (+...

Are there any changes to the trians on Sunday that may effect prices and times? As me and mates are doing day trip to Paignton from Plymouth

What warrants a station being operated by Network Rail? Is it the amount of passengers that use the station or is it location wise? Is it just the lagrest stations? What do they gain by managing these stations? I just find it really strange that they would take on this work. Is it becuase...

Could this be the start of Beeching Axe Part 2? There was a report in the local news here in the southwest that local branch lines may only stop at the final station, and omission of some of the intermediate stops on some lines. Its all a part fo the Great Western Franchise tendering. It rightly...

"Devon and Cornwall Railways" is listed as being a open-access rail company 'In Development". On further research it is owned by British American Railway Services, which own the Dartmoor Railway. Is this actually a new rail company proposing new open access services in Devon and Cornwall. Or is...

Whatever happened to the proposed year round services to Okehampton. The Sunday rover service still operates on Summer Sundays. However there seems to be no word on the proposal for NR to serve the station year round. FGW stated as far back as i think 2008 that they were looking at reinstating...