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What are the possibilities for making the Llandudno-Manchester service half-hourly, at least between Llandudno and Chester? (I realise there would be likely capacity problems adding more trains heading into Manchester). It's currently hourly, except with a 3-hour gap leaving Llandudno between...

Yesterday I was travelling back from Crewe to Euston on the return portion of a Euston-Crewe LNWR/WMR-only £41.80 super-offpeak return ticket. I got on the 19:13 from Crewe, but was charged an excess fare (not a huge amount - £4.90) by the conductor to upgrade my ticket to an off-peak on the...

I was just idly checking information about the London cable car at https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/london-cable-car/opening-hours-frequency and discovered this: If I've understood that right, if I turn up before 09:30 on weekdays, I can avoid paying the fare simply by having a bicycle with me. Which...

I'm fielding a query from a friend who wants to know what ticket to buy to get from Poulton-le-Fylde to Liverpool Lime Street, returning a couple of weeks later. It looks like the only returns offered on that route are day returns, so it would be two off-peak singles @ £20.20 each. However, I...

Cycling around Waterloo a few days ago I came across this: As shown in the picture below, a very old engraving that says, Charing Cross Railway, and Blackfriars Station. This is under the railway bridge just to the East of Waterloo East station, where the SouthEastern tracks go over Blackfriars...

I've seen various discussions on railforums over the years about the advantages of driverless trains (cost, and you have more flexibility because of not having to deal with driver availability when dealing with disruption or even when planning normal timetables), and the consensus seems to be...

Does anyone know why Northern Line on-train announcements name Euston station not as Euston but as Euston Bank Branch or Euston Charing Cross Branch? I can kinda marginally see the point of it for Southbound trains since it could theoretically alert someone who has got on the wrong train...

Abbey Wood station has a fence separating the SouthEastern and Elizabeth Line trains - which has always struck me as a bit pointless now the lines are in use, and also seems unusual as I hadn't been aware of any other station that has fences between adjacent passenger tracks. I can see that the...

With the 60th anniversary of Dr Who, and the new episode shown last Saturday, the BBC have put all the old classic Dr Who episodes on iPlayer for anyone to watch. That's an awful lot of watching for any Dr Who fans with enough time on their hands! So yesterday I randomly picked Web of Fear - a...

A question that randomly popped into my head... What, in engineering terms, is it that limits the maximum speed that trains can travel on any particular stretch of line? If you wanted to upgrade a section of line to allow higher speeds, what would you typically need to change? Clearly a big...

I've just been trying to buy an Abbey Wood to Tonbridge ticket. I was somewhat surprised when tickets.railforums.co.uk offered me an ordinary cheap day return Abbey Wood to Tonbridge and recommended I travel via Elizabeth and Jubilee lines to London Bridge, changing at Canary Wharf: My surprise...

First off, I'll admit to a bias: I've never liked the idea of 400m trains (that is, two 200 trainsets coupled together). I understand the need for capacity, but the railway also needs to be reasonably passenger-friendly and accessible, and to my mind, expecting people to walk 400m down a...

Seen recently on the Underground (If I recall correctly, at Bank): Is this misleading or what! As far as I'm aware, no EMR train has a destination of Luton Airport - not least because there isn't a station at Luton Airport! The trains simply pass through nearby Luton Airport Parkway en route...

Does anyone know if a break of journey is allowed on the London-Nottingham super-offpeak return ticket? (Restriction code CJ). Due to a late change of travel plans, I would actually like to use the ticket to get from Grantham to London later today - so skipping the Nottingham-Grantham bit of...

London Transport Museum (LTM) sometimes do tours of the inaccessible parts of Charing Cross station - notably the old Jubilee platforms. They've recently opened up dates in November and December - booking form here. I was tempted to book but it turns out the cost for an adult is £44, which...

Just been evacuated from Moorgate station due to what the announcements are saying it's a reported emergency, although no signs of anything amiss walking from Elizabeth line via Northern line to way out. I'm curious to know what's going on? The staff I asked also said they didn't know just had...

Google maps shows this rather interesting track arrangement between Dorchester West and Maiden Newton: (Link) Is there something unusual going on under the trees, or is this simply likely to be a (rather exceptional) artifact of Google maps?

Splitting this off from the Tory discussion, which is veering onto the controversy over Sadiq Khan expanding the London ULEZ to cover all of London. I believe other cities are considering similar schemes. How could an approach that uses only carrots and not sticks work? Presumably you'd have...

I was looking at the Network Railcard map here to try to figure out exactly what journeys I can use it on, and realised that for something that I thought was broadly supposed to cover the SouthEast, centred on London, the boundary of validity is pretty strange in places: It stretches out as far...

I have a friend who is visiting from China and has just been penalty-fared by the conductor on a train from London to Cambridge, along with her child. She doesn't live in the UK: She arrived only a week ago, to visit for a couple of months, so isn't familiar with the system, and she used her...