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Many of the forward bookings for the Jacobite are from tour operators, who include a ride on the train as park of their package. I know that at least one of them is extremely frustrated and unimpressed with the shenanigans at West Coast. They've got thousands of guests across the 2024 season...

I'm in my mid 60s now, grew up in West Cumbria. Anyone of my age will remember that the River Ehen through Egremont (a few miles from Whitehaven) used to run orange all year long. It was from the pumps draining water from the seams at Florence Pit, an iron ore mine just outside Egremont. So...

Please don't be disingenuous. It rains a lot in Scotland but over three inches in 12 hours (and still raining) is unprecedented - it is not in any way normal.

I was caught up in this, but coming southbound. I was on the 1538 departure (1M16) Glasgow Central to Euston. It was an 11 car Pendalino. Not rammed to the roof, but a very decent load from what I could see. If you look at real time trains this shows the service as cancelled. Yes, true, but not...

Yes, they still exist. I bought one yesterday for BZ6 to Hitchin (though I bought it from c2c, not at Waterloo)

This would not be the first time where Police Scotland have set up diversions without thinking things through. I've seen them diverting traffic onto the shore road between Arrochar and Garelochhead - a road that has huge signs on it saying "unsuitable for HGVs". The road is almost single track...

"On a different note - now that West India Quay appears to be the closest interchange for the new Canary Wharf station, does it make sense to continue skipping this stop on Bank-Lewisham DLR trains? I was never quite sure why they started doing that in the first place, but it seems to be even...

"On easyJet, which operates one type of plane" Being pedantic, they operate three (very similar) types. The A319, the A320 and A321. Common certification for all models but they are different sizes. So on the odd occasion that they need to swap planes about, it needs a bit of adjustment for...

Ratty line blocked due to landslide. I spole to a family member in the area earlier and she confirmed that a huge amount of rain hit the west side of Cumbria yesterday. Some pictures here https://cumbriacrack.com/2021/10/03/laal-ratty-forced-to-suspend-trains-due-to-extreme-weather/

I'm all for the railway industry getting favourable publicity out of good news stories. But this one does rather stick in the gullet as there is no good news for the travelling public. Over the last year Avanti have added extra time and extra stops into this service, swinging the time balance...

Helensburgh Central to Edinburgh. There's a direct service every half hour via Aidrie. But it is almost always a few minutes quicker to change at Queen Street (lower to high level platforms) for the express service via Falkirk.

Happened to me last week. Collecting a ticket for a journey on Greater Anglia purchased through the Scotrail site (just because I could remember my log on details with them). Paid using an Amex card that I have successfully used to buy tickets at Scotrail TVMs a couple of weeks ago. Got the...

"The vast majority of people that use north Clyde services at this point in time are either junkies, alkies or kids" Pardon my french but that is rubbish. I'm on these services multiple times per week (essential travel to medical appointments). The trains are busier than I'd expected...

"adaptive cruise which is still very much a premium option" My Skoda has adaptive, standard fit, on a lower spec version. Virtually every VAG group car that has cruise control gets the adaptive version as standard.

"I find that selecting the gear which is the first number of the lower limit you want to adhere to works fairly well on most cars. That is 2nd for 20, 3rd for 30, 4th for 40, 5th for 50 and 6th for cruising at 60 or above" But virtually every car sold in the last decade has cruise control, so...

"Inverness is a much bigger tourist centre and business centre" It absolutely is, but it has competition that FW doesn't face. Inverness has an airport, providing lots of competetion on travel to London. No airport at FW, and it's two hours (on a fast motorbike, on a clear day, with little...

"They certainly have done and still do vary the relative lengths of the FW and Aberdeen portions seasonally." Yes, agree. But the most I've seen on the FW portion is 1x73+6xcoaches. Running 2x73+10 coaches (which is what went though today) would be quite the change

The FW portion sells out in the summer season (pre covid) so I could see making the FW portion longer (presumably at the expense of Aberdeen?) might be a viable idea. But does this create a problem with passing other services? The passing loops along the WHL are not particularly long. When...

"It is interesting that Inverness-London appears to be the biggest air flow within mainland UK - I hadn't realised!" As already noted, that's incorrect. The report highlights that EDI-LON is the biggest domestic air flow, and GLA-LON isn't far behind. In pre-covid days there would be between...

Helensburgh to Arrochar. £6.90 by train, £3.05 by bus. Same journey time. But the train offers 7 trains per weekday (normal, non-Covid timetable), whereas there are only three buses per weekday (and no Sunday buses)