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Does anyone know if the Disabled Veterans Oyster card will be valid on this route from Paddington to Reading? I did ask TfL but they couldn't give me a definite answer. The wording on the Veterans Oyster site states...

I often heard older train drivers refer to the ‘Chock End’. Eventually I plucked up the courage to ask what the heck the ‘Chock End’ was and I was told the ‘modern name is the buffers’!

Many thanks. That is a relief. Must get around to learning about how to use this twittering thing! Thanks again.

Many thanks.

Just a quick query, only last week I was sent two complimentary 1st class VTEC tickets from VTEC after they completely messed up with reservations, then lost my complaint! I was hoping to use these tickets in July. The tickets say they are valid across the VTEC network, only on their trains...

Sorry if this is a daft question, but when there are two five car units joined together, are there two guards (one for each unit) and two sets of first class hosts (for the two first class sections - one in each unit). Or do they change from unit to unit at stations along the route? When they...

I know we are straying a bit off topic here, but you seem to indicate that the new trains will solve the overcrowding on TPE? Over the last few weeks I have travelled quite frequently from Northallerton to Manchester Airport and Liverpool and back at various times of the day. The trains...

York is managed by Virgin East Coast (infact since privatisation it has always been managed by the incumbent East Coast TOC). See under the large lettered YRK on: http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations_destinations/yrk.aspx Pete

In pre internet days, I used a small radio with earphones for entertainment 'on the move' whilst on the train from Northallerton to London. I was quite alarmed when the travel announcer on BBC Radio York boldly said that the train I was travelling on (and which had just left York) had been...

I am pretty sure it was National Express East Coast who promised to open a first class lounge at York. Mind you, they also wanted to install ticket barriers at York but that never happened either. I always find it strange though that the likes of Wakefield has a 1st class lounge but York, a...

Some 'ethnic' type people produced one of those 'Camping Gaz' camping stoves and set it going to heat up their curry on an afternoon GNER train to London a few years ago. The curry was in those foil type things you get from a takeaway. The smell soon permeated the whole carriage and they were...

1) what 3 things must a train driver immediately do if their train is on fire in a OLE area? a, Ask the passengers if anyone could lend him their mobile phone. b. Ring his wife to say he will be late home and does she need anything from Sainsbury's c. Dial 118118 (other...

Last winter on a day with much disruption on the East Coast Mainline, I was travelling south from Northallerton to London KX in 1st class with Grand Central who do York to London non stop. Upon stopping at York, a middle aged couple with suitcases got on and sat opposite me. In an effort to...