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I travel quite a bit between Carlisle, Lancaster and Preston. The ground is very saturated, the worse I have seen it to be honest. (More prolonged rain today). I can only speak for my area, but I'm not too surprised there have been numerous landslips. I hope there are no more, but I fear there...

For the past couple of days, I have tried to book tickets using thetrainline website. I have an account, but when I log in I am being asked to update my details, including a password. As I have not requested a new password I am a little suspicious. I was wondering if anyone else has had the same...

How often are these restrictions enforced? The last time I had an ALR often the TM manager would just glance at it at the ticket check. I had a couple say "not seen one of them for a while"

Today I went from Carlisle to Glasgow as I wanted to travel the Mid-Calder way. I took the lightly loaded 10.51 Avanti service ( 7.30 ex Euston). I was coach U, with a handful of others. After the usual fast start, there was slow running from Quintinshill loops to Lockerbie. The...

Thanks for your replies. I have Salamanca in mind, also, and maybe Leon and Burgos which don't seem too far away.

In June, I will be staying in Valladolid for a few days, as I mentioned, my first-ever trip to Spain. I have a couple of questions that maybe some of you could answer. 1 How easy is it to travel from Madrid Airport to Valladolid? I am guessing I will have to make my way to Madrid by train or...

As usual numerous cancellations on the Liverpool, Manchester Airport to Glasgow, and Edinburgh route today. Two 397 sets in the sidings at Preston and 2 in the centre lines at Carlisle were not a great advert lol.

Today in Carlisle 9.49 Carlisle to Euston full and some standing 10.08 Carlisle to Euston via Brum, I managed to get one of the few remaining seats ( I didn't have a reserved seat ) 11.41 Preston to Glasgow full and standing 11.53 Preston to Edinburgh full and some standing 12.04 Preston to...

I have just returned from a Lourdes pilgrimage. We were told we would need a vaccination passport to enter France, not checked or needed. Very little mask wearing around Lourdes. However, our charter flight was Spanish-owned, which said mask wearing was mandatory on their planes and was...

I had planned some rail journies for the week commencing June 21st. I've already pre-booked a couple of Premier Inns. Thankfully I do have Plan B, but it means using the car instead.

Not a good day for TPE's Glasgow/ Edinburgh routes. I reckon about 50% cancelled. To make matters worse Avanti services were very very busy, well the ones I saw!. On the other hand, I caught the 1701 TPE service from Preston to Carlisle, cancelled from Liverpool Lime St. It was almost empty...

Nor sure were to put this - feel free to move It would appear that the Goods lines from Skew Bridge to Preston station have been authorised for passenger train use from late this evening to tomorrow lunchtime. If true could give some rare photo opportunities!

I'm sure the press will delight in reminding us all how late and over budget CrossRail is. I am wondering if any of the knowledgable people on this forum can give examples of projects that were on budget and time. I would be interested to know.

8.49 Carlisle to Preston abt half full, by the time it left Preston abt 80% full 10.17 Preston to Crewe ( ex Blackpool ) abt a quarter full 12.01 Crewe to Stone very quiet 1606 Stone to Crewe quiet 1711 Crewe to Carlisle full and standing in Standard Class. Me and 2 others in Standard Premium...

As a minister of religion - Catholic priest for those who may be interested, this happened to me at Carlisle Crematorium on Friday. I had a funeral service at 12.20. I like to arrive in good time - get vested, make sure I have the right books, time to recollect myself before the service begins...

12.49 Avanti Carlisle to Preston - Full and Standing 20.43 Avanti Preston to Carlisle - Full but not standing.

Today, I managed to leave my wallet on a London-bound train at Preston. By the time I realised it had gone the train was leaving for London. Thankfully I had the presence of mind to have a word with the dispatchers on the platform. I knew where I had been sitting. The dispatcher made a couple...

Carlisle to Crewe today. Carlisle as busy as could be expected for the end of February. My train 9.49 Avanti to Crewe was about 3/4 full. Crewe was busy. Most of the trains I saw were well patronised, except the 13.04 Avanti service to Blackpool - 10 car Voyager - almost empty. My train back to...

According to RTT 1M16, 1540 ex Glasgow Central had passed Beattock 221 mins late. I should have been on that, but took an earlier train - just in case!

I had a TPE only off-peak return from Carlisle to Preston. A few TPE services canceled so 12.49 Avanti Carlisle to Preston ticket checked no query about the ticket - same on the 19.53 return to Carlisle.