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    Chiltern shortforming at weekends: are they short of stock?

    Every time I travel on Chiltern during the weekend their services are shortformed, right now I’m on a service from Brum to Marylebone and someone has put on a two carriage train. During the weekdays trains are fully formed.
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    Metropolitan Line Extension (MLX/Croxley Rail Link)

    Don’t forget Watford has become something of a tourist hotspot with the opening of the W.B Studios, the amount of times those said tourists have taken the Met line to Watford expecting a shuttle bus to be available only to be told it’s at least a half hour walk to the junction, I think it’s at...
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    Can I buy a ticket from Burton to Lichfield City?

    Why then when I try to plan a journey via Birmingham does the National rail journey planner give an invalid route...
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    Railcard website problems

    Does anyone know exactly why the railcard site keeps crashing? This has gone on for months now and is extremely frustrating for those of us with Disabled railcards who can’t get them from the ticket office...
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    Storm Dennis disruption 15th & 16th

    These operators should be fined heavily if they leave passengers stranded with no accommodation. A £1000 per passenger should sort the problem out in no time...
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    Is it time to scrap ENTCS completely?

    Knowing the incompetence of the Welsh assembly their scheme is probably even worse funded...
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    Mobile tickets and railcard on the app?

    I wouldn’t bother using the mobile app, or even buying a physical card online given the problems the website is having. Even now it’s giving a 404 message whenever you try to log in...
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    First Greater Glasgow

    How come operators in Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, Nottingham, Bristol, even Edinburgh can cope with paper multi operator tickets then? McGill’s are just playing silly buggers and with their shady reputation it doesn’t surprise me!
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    Unreserved seats on Avanti

    Since LNER have introduced their new fares to Edinburgh I find it more cost effective just to buy a super off peak single...
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    First Greater Glasgow

    No excuse, every other major city in the UK has a fully integrated day ticket, it should be the case if McGill’s refuse to participate in the daytripper scheme, they aren’t allowed to bid for SPT funded routes or use SPT facilities...
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    Cambrian Storm Damage / Conwy Valley Flooding 02/20

    Instead of closing the Conwy valley line why not just withdraw national rail trains and transform it into a tourist railway, perhaps as an extension of the Ffestiniog railway?
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    Unreserved seats on Avanti

    Yes, but for some reason people won’t sit in a seat even when it becomes apparent that the person who reserved it aren’t showing up
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    Unreserved seats on Avanti

    Ok, I reserve a seat and then decide not to travel, I’ve just taken a seat for someone else, seats are unreserved for a reason...
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    Unreserved seats on Avanti

    I’m on the service from Glasgow to Euston and the powers that be have made the decision to classify basically only half a carriage as unreserved. Who makes these frankly ridiculous decisions?
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    LNWR train at Glasgow Central

    Any idea what it’s doing in Scotland?
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    Storm Dennis disruption 15th & 16th

    For a starters by providing rail replacement buses, they know now where the railway will likely flood and they can’t use the excuse of ‘it’s too dangerous’ to run buses as National Express and Scottish Citylink ran a normal service during storm Ciara...
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    Did Pacers ever operate in London?

    If they did, how long did they survive in the capital etc...
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    Storm Dennis disruption 15th & 16th

    Let’s hope the TOC’s actually step up their game after their poor handling of Storm Ciara...
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    First Greater Glasgow

    Maybe it’s just me but I find bus fares in general in Scotland (with the exception of Edinburgh) to be high compared with the rest of the UK...
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    Government pledges £5bn for bus services and cycling routes

    It’s no good investing in new buses if there’s no routes left to drive them...

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