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A couple of weeks ago I booked an Anytime Day Return for a visit to London this Wednesday, expecting a simple out and back from Whittlesford to South Kensington via Liverpool St. I prebook for expenses purposes. Using Trainsplit I entered a nominal destination of Paddington to get issued a...

I have found a very good value advance fare using Chiltern and connections (quite extensive connections at both ends in fact!). The origin is Coventry and the itinerary is via Birmingham International (BHI), Birmingham New Street, a short walk, Birmingham Moor Street, then Marylebone and...

Two new services have been added to the December 2022 easement list that I have not seen flagged here. Sorry if it is covered elsewhere. The current download of the list of easements from the National Rail website is the May 2022 list, which led me to query Trainsplit on the application of the...

Hi All, wondering what the Forum's view is here. I am planning a one way journey from Foxton to Heathrow Terminal 5 via Thameslink and Elizabeth Line on a Wednesday afternoon in November, using a Network Railcard. All the conventional retailers will sell me an Anytime Day Single with NSE...

As above really, I am looking to deepen my understanding of the routes I take, and am looking for a readable atlas to dip into to accompany any journey. I travel mainly in the South East, Anglia and London but throughout England, and as I am about to take the Caledonian Sleeper I am interested...

Mods note - split from here. Expect Boris to have a VIP Mk 5 set in service with matching Class 68 in a gaudy union flag based livery by Christmas! It's so Boris.

I have an LNER & Connections First Advance ticket from the Royston to Edinburgh on Thursday afternoon, with the only reservation coupon being Peterborough - Edinburgh. I am routed with changes at Stevenage (5 mins) and Peterborough (9 mins) with both connecting services RYS-SVG and SVG-PBO on...

The closing ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing involved a "stereotypical" London bus as part of the handover of the Games to London. At first sight, it appeared pretty much a stock first generation Enviro 400, although with blacked out windows, no upper deck obstacle deflectors and...

Hi I booked an off-peak return on 4th March for travel 20-22nd April from Trainsplit (£108). Foolishly I collected the tickets the next day before it was clear that I would be unable to travel, meaning an automatic refund was out of the question. So, on 22nd March I filled in and printed a...

Hi All There are one or two brief references in threads to doing this but quite old and not conclusive so I wanted to ask again. I hold a Network Railcard discounted Anytime Single from Royston to London Z12, TOD bought from Thameslink online and collected already (prematurely as it happens -...

Hi all - I'm at a loose end at the weekend and I'm looking to cover some miles but need to clarify the area validity of this ticket. The National Rail and Greater Anglia websites both carry a map showing three county zones, the season tickets being available and clearly priced for one, two or...

Hi all, long time no post! Want some help on the above. I'm trying to book an off-peak return from "Zone D" (Foxton) to Heathrow Underground with a Network Railcard. I intend to the 16.33 FXN-KGX on Thursday March 26th, and likely the 18.44 KGX-FXN on Monday March 30th. NRE and the...

...at Wembley. Update published by Network Rail yesterday on its progress. Due to start work as early as this summer. http://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/News-Releases/7306/ERTMS-train-for-Hertford-National-Integration-Facility-takes-shape

Anyone else getting irritated by the volume of basically similar quiz posts (something only a small fraction of users use, but do so heavily) littering the New Posts search?? Quiz posts don't count towards post totals IIRC, is there any way that Station Code, Headcode Game, Guess the Bus...

Hi all I have no real interest in buses but I thought I'd take a couple of snaps of something I passed today and share them. I work at Milton Park, near Didcot, and sat outside a unit registered to a company called Total Vehicle Technology Ltd were nine bendybuses, apparently recently...

I think they owe First Great Western some royalties for their title sequence... skates weaving pink and blue dynamic lines against a deep purple background. Or is it subliminal advertising?! "Must... travel... to... Swindon" And no, I don't watch it!

I'm currently (19.50 20th April) in Didcot town centre. Just now I walked towards Sainsburys car park from town and heard a freight train pass. Nothing unusual, but as I turned the corner to view the tracks I saw the low sided wagons in the consist heading east. However on looking a little...

Hi All I need to make this trip for business on 17th March, out and back on the same day leaving arriving by 9.30am. When looking at times for Didcot to Margate on National Rail Enquiries, I am given options only via St Pancras. On SouthEastern's own mixing deck, I am given only journies...

From the Independent/Associated Press: Belgian train crash kills at least twenty AP Monday, 15 February 2010 At least twenty people were killed when two commuter trains collided head-on during morning rush-hour today, officials in Belgium said. Dirk Pieters, the mayor of...

Hi all My other half is travelling this evening from Royston to Didcot via Kings Cross and Paddington. Leaving Royston around 1545 and hence leaving Paddington sometime between 1700 and 1800 (hopefully). Returning Sunday. Trainline and FGW sites both seem allow an Off-Peak Return on these...