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Hello, I'm planning on making a trip from Southampton to Leeds in a little over a week. I would prefer to go via London, but can go via CrossCountry if necessary. The catch is I'd like to break my return journey in Cheshire, stopping somewhere like Cuddington, Hartford or Frodsham, so I'm...

So, a couple of times I've been linked to routeing maps. They look very pretty, but I've no idea how you'd use one to determine route validity. Forgive me if I'm being dumb! If anyone could explain, or give me an example or two (ideally in the Southampton area, as I'm quite familiar with it)...

I've just learned that the Mid Cheshire Rail Users Association are running a railtour up the S&C on Wednesday: http://www.compasstoursbyrail.co.uk/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage_compass.tpl&product_id=105&category_id=7&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=66 Is anyone on here...

Given that both those fleets are Coradia family trains, I wonder if in the post-IEP world, the 180s could be downrated to 175s? A little bit of set reforming would convert the fleet into 17 four-car trains and 24 three-car ones. That would eliminate a largely superfluous tiny fleet of 125mph...

Prior to the introduction of the Pendolinos, West Coast had 50 Mk3 sets, 15 hauled by 90s and 35 hauled by 87s. Presumably XC also had some hauled Mk3 sets? The 15 sets with 90s went to Anglia, and a few Mk3s have been Chilternized, but what happened to the rest. Presumably some are now HST...

I've recently been pondering on how you would most efficiently design a station throat for a terminus station. My initial thoughts came from trying to build such a thing in OpenTTD, but it got me thinking to how it's done in the real world. I know Euston has all those 'burrows' that...

In my box of tickets, I found a One Day Rover from 1988. The ticket is from Clacton to Colchester Carousel. As far as I can ascertain, Colchester station has never been called "Colchester Carousel" and I can find no trace of a reference through searching the web. So. Does anyone know what the...

Does this matter? If I plan to pay with cash, but the TVMs only accept card, then the simple act of having a card that I could have used prejudices the case against me?

I've not been able to confirm this one way or the other. I've noticed that there are no LM SuperSaver fares available on the Liverpool-Birmingham services, but there are some that are valid on that corridor to stations between Rugby and Euston. Is it valid to start/stop short on these...

What services are diagrammed to take advantage of the Class 158s 90mph maximum running speed? I know they're capable of it, but I know that many of them end up being restricted to 75mph, because they're either coupled to a Sprinter, or diagrammed on routes that are timed for Sprinters. I...

Mod note: Split from the Northern topic in NR General Indeed. It does leave you with a genuine question about availability of the "whole range of tickets" though. I wonder whether there should be some sort of combo Metrolink/PTT type ticket, so if you're at Market Street, you can buy a...

When I first started travelling CrossCountry back in 2000, Virgin were still running with old BR stock. My biggest regret of the time was not paying enough attention to what traction was being provided back in those days. I know that a lot of the workings were HSTs, and I was enough of an...

What's the best way to make this journey? As far as I can ascertain, the most obvious direct route is rail from Cuddington to either Altrincham or Navigation Road, switch to Metrolink to Stretford, then get the ML1 bus from Stretford to the Trafford Centre. Thing is, that's three different...

In my naïvete, I'd always assumed that quad-track railway with separate Fast and Slow lines would be consistent across the network, with Fasts in the middle and Slows on the outside, just like the lanes of a dual carriageway. Indeed, that seems to be true of the South West Main Line. However...

London Midland's twitter feed recently informed me of some new walk-on Off Peak 1st class fares they're offering, including Euston-Crewe for £55. What I was wondering is what benefits would one expect to receive travelling 1st with LM? Is it just the first class accommodation, or do LM provide...

I was recently looking at Southampton-Brighton fares for a friend (there's another thread about it if you're interested) and I spotted an oddity. One of the things we looked at was the possibility of travelling early morning on a Monday, but we weren't sure whether Southern consider trains on...

Hi, A friend of mine needs to make a triangular journey next week, travelling on Monday from Southampton (or ideally from St Deny's, but SOU will do) to Brighton, then on Saturday from Brighton to London and finally on Sunday from London back to Southampton (or SDN). He holds a valid Y-P...

OK, I realise that topics related to this come up quite often, but I have a question about an odd subtlety that's come up in some recent AP tickets I've purchased. I've got a ticket from Hartford to Southampton, with a via-London Maltese cross. I've also been allocated reservations from...

Can anyone advise on where (if anywhere) it's possible to get access to old timetable information? Specifically, I'm interested to know what services Hartford received in 2000/2001-ish. Certainly I know it was much more than now! I know that there were CrossCountry services, both to Poole...

So, we've had steam preservation railways for quite some time now, and running heritage diesels on those same lines seemed like the obvious next step. My question is "What about heritage electric trains?" There are plenty of them and I'd certainly love the opportunity to ride in a compartment of...