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Dear Experts, A friend has booked (via TrainLine) a SailRail to Dublin, starting in Windermere. The planned itinerary was Windermere -> Oxenholme -> Warrington -> Holyhead. Avanti drivers are now striking on this date so I'm assuming that the Oxenholme to Warrington leg won't run. (Of course...

Last night I watched a lovely programme on iPlayer about the Fort William - Mallaig line. Totally recommended to everyone. In iPlayer, search for “Ceol na Loidhne”. Yes it’s in Gaelic with subtitles, but don’t let that put you off. You might even learn a few words!

I am facing the prospect of attempting to travel from Dorset to Edinburgh tomorrow afternoon/evening, despite a whole catalogue of potential problems: bustitution around Southampton, landslip repairs near Woking, and terrible weather everywhere. LNER don't yet have a modified timetable or "do...

I saw this on the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/16/rail-signalling-error-diverts-strasbourg-bound-meps-to-disneyland I was a bit surprised to see it taking that almost-via-Paris route, but having looked at a map it is clearly going to be the fastest option since the LGV...

I thought some here might be interested in this Guardian article about the state of Greyhound in the US: https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2023/jul/26/america-roadtrip-greyhound-bus Sample: It's not a happy story. One tiny glimmer of hope is that Greyhound is now owned by Flixbus; let's...

brfares.com lists fares to Dunoon, via the Gourock to Dunoon Calmac ferry, but the Scotrail ticket machine at Waverley doesn't want to sell them - it has Dunoon in the list of stations that it will auto-complete, but then says something like "no fares available". Does anyone know what the...

Hopefully simple question: is there a way to cancel a seat reservation that won’t be used, bought with a flexible return, given the printed reservation and ticket? And to book another reservation for a later service?

There don’t seem to be any trains from Waterloo to beyond Southampton tomorrow (2022-12-22), at least in the afternoon. Does anyone know why? It looks as if maybe there are good connections to Weymouth services, e.g. a 1555 arrival from Waterloo and a 1600 departure to Weymouth. Are these...

Dear All, I don't think I saw any mention of this incident, does anyone have any idea where it could have been? Which tunnel was being worked on on 10th September? https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/10/kyndryl_aer_lingus/ The story is that Aer Lingus suffered disruption due to a cut fibre...

Dear Experts, brfares.com lists three Poole to Edinburgh standard-class walk-up singles: https://www.brfares.com/!fares?orig=POO&dest=EDB Anytime Single, not via London - £226 Anytime Single, any route - £204 Super Off Peak Single - £103 The SWR ticket machine at Poole did not offer me the...

Dear Experts, I am planning to travel Edinburgh -> London (sleeper), London -> Dorset (likely Dorchester), and return by day trains. My aim for the outward journey is to be as "COVID safe" as possible, hence the choice of the sleeper (with a compartment to myself), and I am considering getting...

I would normally do Edinburgh to Weymouth via London but am considering alternatives due to the SWR strikes. This is for Monday 23/12/2019. Normally I would consider Edinburgh to Birmingham via Carlisle, but the timetable discourages that; there is an 0852 from Edinburgh via Carlise that gets...

Looking at a ticket like this one: http://www.brfares.com/#faredetail?orig=LAN&dest=0438&rte=317&tkt=FNW - a Lancaster to Manchester “DUO” - how can I tell from that brfares webpage, or anything else, when the return is valid? I.e. is it a day return, one month return, or something else...

Dear Experts, Can anyone suggest the best tickets for this journey: Sat 14/12/2019 am Edinburgh-Carlisle-Settle Sun 15/12/2019 am Bentham-Lancaster-Manchester (ideally Oxford Rd) Tues 17/12/2019 pm Manchester-Edinburgh The days are fixed but the times aren’t. Ideally I’d like tickets that...

This morning I wanted to take the 1027 Waverly departure towards Shotts. I got to the station at about 1020 and there was a long queue for the Scotrail ticket machines that I normally use so for the first time I tried one of the Virgin ones inside. Having selected my destination it asked "when...

There are a couple of journeys that I do reasonably often that have terrible train to bus connection timing: - The afternoon trains from Edinburgh to Penrith arrive at 1421 and 1621, and the buses to Keswick depart at xx21, meaning a 1 hour wait. - The afternoon Inverness to Kyle of...

A bridge has collapsed in Pitrufquen, Chile, while a freight train was crossing. No casualties. I'm surprised not to see this reported already; have I missed something? BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/headlines/3713690 It looks like OpenStreetMap have already updated their...

It seems that the 1219 West Highland train doesn't stop at intermediate stations between Crianlarich and Fort William - which makes me think it is actually a bus. Does anyone know what's going on?

I was due to travel from Kyle of Lochalsh to Inverness on the mid-day train today, but instead we were bused from Kyle to Strathcarron; a mobile crane had crashed through the roadside crash barriers off the A890 near Stromeferry, ending up very close to the railway. Probably not actually...

Dear Experts, My parents plan to travel from Poole to Edinburgh, then from Edinburgh to Bradford, then from Bradford back to Poole (each leg a few days apart, some time in the Summer). Obviously three singles would be hideously expensive. If I were doing this myself, I would either (a)...