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Hi All, Can someone tell me what is going on today in relation to rail replacement buses? The GA journey planner disagrees with their own literature who disagree with their own staff... The GA literature says that rail replacement buses are running between Cambridge and Bury St Edmunds and if...

I'm currently in Germany on a trip for a week, so thought I'd share my experiences here. Will slowly add to this over the next few days. A fair bit of new/modern/unusual things around these cities, so I thought I'd see what I can find. I'm here primarily for work reasons, but in my spare time I...

All - What is your experience with getting refunds from Greater Anglia for not providing First Class on services that they should have done? At the moment I'm trying to claim for several journeys that they substituted a Stansted Express 745 in for an Intercity one, one from a few weeks ago and...

Does anyone have an accurate Seat Map for these? I've got a PDF version of one from a few years ago, however I'm just picking a seat on intercity.pl and the seat numbers seem to be reverse to what I expect? On the plans and last time I was on them, you had the numbers counting up from the...

*Mod Note* This discussion has been split from this thread: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/firstgroup-general-discussion.65668/ Aircoach in Dublin have just had 16x Volvo B8RLE 2 door MCV Evora's delivered. In addition, they have sent staff from around the group to Dublin to cover for a...

Just saw on Irish road passenger transport forum that at long last Irish buses can be tracked!

I'm seeing Greater Anglia website listing fully flex off peak return fares cheaper than single off peak fares on the same train. For example on the same trains Ipswich to Stansted 63.70 shows up as cheapest when searching for single But Ipswich to Stansted hare fare 20 off peak day return...

There's been a continuous problem with the 482 Ipswich to London route where one or two journeys on there often don't track a all or someone seemingly logs on to the wrong journey on the ticket machine which gives a load of nonsense on bustimes.org or their own coach tracker. This especially...

So it seems that Siemens are now talking about taking HS2 Ltd to court following the recent action by Talgo about a similar issue. The comment from Siemens reads At this stage it looks like Alstom are probably a shoo-in at this stage, either via their own bid or the joint venture one between...

Strong rumours suggesting that Alstom are very much in pole position for this contract, both on the French side and on the Irish side. Can anyone substantiate it?

So as we know there will shortly be social distancing imposed on vehicles but there seems to be little to no plans as to how operators are supposed to be able to provide enough capacity to serve the public that need to travel to work unless grants are provided. For example in East Anglia we...

Does anyone know what is going on? There's constantly trains being cancelled left right and centre and trains which are running but not starting from Liverpool Street but further up the line. Staff at the station have no idea what is going on and say they can't get hold of anyone to tell them...

Tommorow I'm booked on a journey from Ipswich to Southend Central that involves changing at Liverpool Street and walking to Fenchurch Street for the 11:48 train to Southend Central. However the 11:48 train from Fenchurch Street to Southend Central does not appear to exist in the timetable any...

So, some interesting developments appear to be happening with buses in East Anglia outside of the mass repainting which is going on with First Eastern Counties. I'll get the ball rolling with the latest Suffolk Updates. Galloway are giving up routes 115 and 116 which are going over to Ipswich...

Is it me or does the standard of passenger information being supplied at Cardiff Central leave an awful lot to be desired, both in spoken and in visual form? I understand the fact that every announcement has to be in English and in Welsh, but is there also the need to announce every single...

This week Greater Anglia have announced that they are going to be providing extra service to Southend Airport, at first glance this seems great news for those departing on early services and late arrivals and would be a welcome achievement. However it has now been revealed that following the...

So Greater Anglia are replacing their orange LED Infotec screens with some smaller LCD displays in the name of progress it seems. Up until now I've only seen them go in stations without screens, or in stations with a single screen shared across multiple platforms, but now they seem to be...

Say for example I bought an advance for Norwich to Bath, which involved a tube leg between Liverpool Street and Paddington, what would happen if because of a Tube delay, I missed my train from Paddington? Would GWR endorse me to travel on a later service to Bath, or are LU delays in the middle...

Reports from multiple sources suggesting that Ireland's National Transport Authority (NTA) approached the ROSCOS in the UK about hiring some rolling stock to add extra capacity as it's likely that any new build trains will not be in service until 2023/2024 and there is a pressing demand for...

Well, seems I'm going to be in Poland for two weeks, having already been a week, and considering I've racked up 9 trains already and will probably hit 20 what better than to do a report on it when spending several hours on a train often with time to kill. I'll outline the departure experience...