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Inspired by the thread examining routes between the Forth Bridge and Perth... https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/edinburgh-to-inverness-forth-bridge.213273/ ...I was wondering if any other UK route closure led to a greater strategic loss than Glenfarg, being as it substantially increased...

Slightly off topic, but I was taken aback not to be able to book a direct trip between Manchester and Bristol on XC next month. The recommended route to minimise changes was via Newport... I don't think so! I'm a bit out of touch because my work travel is massively reduced just now, but this...

I can't disagree with any of this in the context of Covid. People taking the train to Fife to avoid central belt pub closures is ridiculous. But hidden in the piece the RMT line is: "A total ban on alcohol is something we've been advocating for a number of years." Is that really what they...

My Dad's scanned this photo of the crew of the inaugural run of the Northern Belle tourist train in front of 47422 at Dufftown on 6 June 1984. A charter by Grampian Railtours, for a few years the train operated twice a week between Aberdeen and Dufftown using layover time on the First Class...

Not a complaint about these, it's a well known feature of travel on HSTs and other mk3 stock. It's just that I was on a Scotrail HST last night and I wondered to myself if mk3 gangways creaked this much when the stock was in its heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, or if it's something that's come on...

Front page of today's Herald. https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18027522.train-stations-forced-beg-toilet-paper-bin-bags/ I don't have any particular comment to make on this, but I thought that it was worth posting since it's the top story in today's Herald.

I'm just trying to book an Advance on the southbound Chieftain between Perth and King's Cross on 19 December, a couple of weeks after the Azumas start. There appears to be nothing other than flexible tickets available and the prices are eye watering. It isn't a problem with LNER Advances...

Well, I've finally stepped aboard my first refurbed HST on the 0735 Aberdeen-Queen Street. Scottish intercity rail travel has been brought into the 1980s at last! If I'd narrowed my eyes at speed around Gleneagles I could almost have believed it was 1981 and I was in push pull set. Only joking...

I know that there's a thread on Highland Main Line upgrades in the Speculative Ideas section, but this is a specific question on present work, not an idea. Resignalling and other work is now well advanced at Pitlochry and Aviemore ahead of the full HST timetable. I've also noticed new LED...

I'm in a queue of trains northbound at Preston at the moment. As far as I can see on RTT there's a weather related overhead line problem at Beattock affecting only northbound and it started around 1130am, so stuff's been getting stopped for two hours now. Does anyone have any more info?

I'm spending a lot of time on threads that pick apart current projects that are over time, over budget or going wrong in all sorts of ways: late and over budget new routes like Crossrail, late or curtailed electrifications, late stock builds, late stock conversions, unsatisfactory new stock, the...

I got a bit of a surprise today. I've tried to find an existing thread on this, but there isn't one, which makes me think I've just been given twaddle. I want to change an advance bought on Virgin's own website. I took it to a Virgin ticket office, expecting to pay the difference plus the £10...

Quick question on this. It's a long time since I've tried to change a ticket via what used to be the VTEC website. It used to be the case that if you wanted to cancel and change then you could use the value of the existing booking to buy the new one, plus the cost admin fee of course. I've...

Does anyone know why the gents loo in the Euston First Class lounge has been out of action for around a month now? I don't like to ask the staff in case it's something shocking. The unisex arrangement in the ladies is really quite tedious at busy times, with big queues building up for the most...

I live on the Highland Main Line. For a number of years I've been exasperated not by that route, which is bad enough, but the woeful Ladybank-Hilton Jn section, which for 15 miles of uninterrupted single track carries Scotrail Edinburgh-Inverness 'expresses'. It also attempts to support an...

Fine enough, but considering that Scotland on Sunday managed to turn 20 skip stopping trains per day into their main front page story today then I don't rate Scotrail's chances of this not getting deliberately misconstrued and blown out of proportion...

This question really isn't trivial at all, it's very important to us bouncing around on a daily basis, but I thought that I'd do the right thing and categorise it as such. At the weekend, a friend who is a regular on the Caledonian Sleeper, but also travels extensively by other services...

I tried to print a prebooked ticket on a Euston ATM this evening and was slightly surprised to find that, although it read my card fine, it refused to produce the ticket and referred me to the counter. Luckily I was in plenty of time for my train, and the combination of booking reference and...

Off we go... http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15384908.End_of_the_line_for_Scotrail__SNP_plans_radical_shake_up_of_Scottish_railways/

Wasn't there a similar case related here recently - I've got a feeling that it was on Thameslink or Southern - where another old grump took exception to anyone who might be in a First Class section with a young child? This one seems a lot worse - a drunken racist - but at least he got lifted for...