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We travelled down to Birmingham for a short citybreak just before Easter. We booked on Avanti West Coast Haymarket to New Street and return, and all went pretty well. We were 14 minutes late into HYM on the way home but otherwise there were no real problems with the service. I had carefully...

Is there a web site where you can easily look up a TOC's recent reliability stats? In particular Avanti West Coast. The reason I ask is that we're contemplating a short break down to Birmingham from Edinburgh in the next couple of weeks. The seemingly obvious way to do it would be using the...

Pal of mine is heading back from Edinburgh to London on Monday 28th November after spending the weekend with us. He advised that he's booked on the 11:10 departure from Haymarket, which surprised me at first, but it turns out that he was originally planning to stay with some other friends on...

Very odd occurrence today. I was booked on the 16:00 LNER service from King's Cross to Edinburgh this coming Sunday. That's the day after the second RMT strike day. Today I received an e-mail from LNER advising that my train was cancelled, and offering me the option to take a refund, or re-book...

I'm trying to arrange a trip to Brum next week for myself and the missus, looking to travel down on the 08:57 from Haymarket on Tuesday 17th. Currently both the Avanti and National Rail web sites are showing £40 advanced singles as being available. If I say they will be two of us travelling...

I was quite looking forward to seeing 6233 up this way in May this year, hauling the Aberdeen Flyer on May 2nd. However, I notice that the Railway Touring Company is now advertising that tour as being hauled by "a locomotive from the Carnforth pool". This will be the second time I know of that...

I'm trying to book two adults on the 17:00 Sunday service from Kings Cross to Waverley. We have a Two Together railcard. The LNER web site offers me the railcard discount on the Advance fare but not on the Super Off Peak. The Two Together Railcard web site says specifically that the railcard...

The signs at the tram stops exhort you to validate your Ridacard before travelling, and the Edinburgh Trams web site states: "make sure you validate your Ridacard before boarding any tram - If you don’t, you will have to pay the On-board fare." But does validating the card actually do anything...

I'm likely to have to travel to Telford (from Edinburgh) for a few days at some point next week, though the precise days are yet to be confirmed. There seem to be good prices available for off-peak return tickets, which suit me fine in terms of times that I could travel, but I'm confused as to...

Apologies for my ignorance about a local facility but can someone provide an up-to-date summary of who is using Millerhill for what these days? I understand that the down side has largely been decommissioned and a good part of it given over to new tree planting. I believe there's also the...

I travelled to Edinburgh from Manchester yesterday on the 16:19 from Oxford Road. It fell behind schedule to begin with, 6L in to Wigan North Western, but made up time after that until it was only 1L at Carlisle and Lockerbie. We had a good run after that, passing Slateford Junction 6E, but we...

I'm booked to travel from Manchester Oxford Road to Edinburgh next week. I have a seat reservation on the 17:53 Virgin train from Preston to Edinburgh, but I've also been issued with a seat reservation on the 16:49 Northern service from Oxford Road to Preston. That reservation says I'm in...

Travelling Edinburgh to Manchester with Transpennine next week on the 06:15, and trying to reserve a seat. I've found the seating plans on TPE's web site but it's not clear which way round the train will be, and it's a long time since I rode that route. Is coach A at the front heading to...

I'm making a booking on the above train for next week and I've run in what appears to be a glitch on the VTEC booking web site. (Cue much astonishment - not.) I asked it to reserve a forward facing seat at a table in the quiet coach. It found me a backward facing seat. I went in to the seat...

The OH is heading up to Aberdeen tomorrow and has just asked if she can get on the train at Haymarket (HYM) rather than Waverley (EDB). The ticket just says "Edinburgh". I've definitely alighted at HYM in the past with a ticket purchased to EDB, and exited through the barriers no problem. Does...

Car on the line between Bowling and Kilpatrick - photo on ScotRail's Twitter feed. Any information on how it got there? There don't seem to be any level crossings on that stretch so it seems unlikely to have been a "took a wrong turning" incident (though TBH I've never really understood how...

I'm on the 18:30 King's Cross [KGX] - Edinburgh [EDB]. The train reversed at Newcastle, which I wasn't expecting. Does this happen often with VTEC through services?

As per the title, yesterday I booked Edinburgh to Watford Junction via London for travel tomorrow. When I collected the ticket from the machine at Waverley last night I was surprised to only get one ticket, plus the CC receipt. Makes a change from the myriad bits of cardboard I'm used to...

What is it with this stretch of line? This is the fourth time in six months that I know of. I know the ECML has a poor reputation for OLE reliability generally but this seems to be turning in to a problem hot spot.

I'm looking to book travel from Edinburgh to the Luton/Stevenage area next week, out of the 28th, return on the 29th. The times of the available Easyjet flights to Luton on the 28th are no good, but the flight times back on the 29th would work. So I go to National Rail enquiries and look at...