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Sounds good in theory but the practicality of it is that currently even for a point to point journey of Southampton Central to Glasgow Central the current rail journey averages out as 7 hours. For a business traveller that in effect means that a trip from Hampshire to the Central Belt (or vv) is...

It really depends on whereabouts you are starting and finishing your journey and if you can drive. Flight and one way hire car is likely to be competitive cost wise with flexible rail travel and /or how much your time is worth to you or your employer. Faffing around on public transport from...

In rural Kent you are more likely to find a business that will take Euros than Scottish or NI banknotes. i always used to get rid of them in the tescos self serve machines when I brought them back from Faslane. At the Kent & East Sussex Railway we do accept them and Euros but we put them to one...

I don't really have any reason to visit Leicester but I've used the flixbus service to Sheffield Meadowhall which serves Fosse Park. The last thing the majority of customers on the bus want is a crawl in to and then out of the city centre. I use the Finchley Rd Stop vice Victoria Coach station...

I was quite surprised to get the email about the weekly capping. The impression I got primarily on the southcoast was that development of the key had been overtaken with e and s tickets and that the key would be quietly dropped. Certainly there seems to have been no futher expansion of the Key...

Train split does seem to throw wobblies every so often with routes from Kent for some reason. I put in Appledore to Shrewsbury no via point and got a route via Brighton, Clapham Junction, Basingstoke, Reading & Newport!

Ive split my journey at Crewe using the LNWR Trent Valley service for some years but normally buy an all operator ticket on the next leg because both the TFW and Northern services are inheritantly unreliable. Last Sunday my Manchester to Crewe northern service was just cancelled no reason given...

Ive done day trips a couple of times from the South Coast to Whitby via the NYMR. It needs careful planning. Sometimes its better to go to York and get the bus straight to Pickering its a short walk across the town centre from the bus stop. The alternative is to catch the train to Malton on the...

I rather imagine that someone has been tasked with removing the purchase FROM LNER of Southern Season tickets from the American Express 5% cashback offer!

I very rarely travel on the ECML but had a recent return trip to Peterborough on a Saturday for football. Travelling on a cross London Advance I was surprised to find the return train ex Leeds near empty just after 6 at Peterborough so it does happen.

BR Class 1600 Pannier Tank 1638 at the K&ESR is the only survivor of a class of 70 all built by BR.

Rail only pays something like 11 pence tax per litre on Diesel so the difference on price based on fuel should be negligable.

Just saying: Easyjet Prices for tomorrow/friday

Indeed a few years back I was driving a tank loco and 5 MK1 coaches about 20 mph away from a station stop, coming around a curve I met 2 quad bikes on the track coming the other way. I immediately dropped the vacuum brake and fortunately they managed to get off the track and down the embankment...

When Grand Central started I remember some people claiming that the service to Sunderland wasn't financially viable and that it was really little more than an orcats raid on the ECML south of York with the extension to the Durham Coast to justify it's existence. Has the LNER fares changes meant...

I don't think that many class 92s still have active TVM. It needed an update when HS1 opened and this was only done on the Channel Tunnel locos and a couple of extra were done in 2009 funded by the EU to enable freight to run on HS1. Most of the equipment on the others is obsolete and possibly...

My last train at the K&ESR last week was 15 to 16 degrees unheated @10am. We did put the steam heat up but without it it would have been "coats and jumpers" rather than unbearable or freezing tbh.

My experience of Southern conductors/obs is that if you approach them with a TOD code they will print out the tickets for you.

At a guess its to even up the braking effect throughout the train to reduce snatching and the risk of wheeelflats.

I would suggest that the majority of the people with advances on the wrong train knew exactly what they were doing and that there was little chance they would be penalised. Why buy an expensive advance or flexible ticket when you know you can bluff your way past the onboard staff every time?