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I am trying to buy a GWR Smartcard. The instructions on the website say: You’ll need to set up an account on GWR.com. When you’ve done this, you can apply for a smartcard in the Manage My Smartcards in the My account section. Just fill in the details and you should get your touch smartcard...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/cross-country-service-reductions-and-alterations-28-11-2021-onwards.225291/ Agreed Perhaps SW of New Street should be operated by GWR (West Country) and TFW (South Wales). And before anyone starts banging on about through services...

Does anyone know what happened to the down Riviera on Sunday night? According to RTT it was worked by 802110. edit just noticed that the up didn't run at all.

Already an established thread on this here: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/chiltern-class-168-diesel-battery-hybrid.216700/

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/problems-with-trainline-open-return-fares-only-being-valid-for-one-day.217813/ Or any other similar vendor. I always buy directly from a TOC. Always cheaper, sometimes by quite a lot.

I noticed a few years ago that several 'new' stations have been built as 2 separate platforms with no bridge or subway. Getting from one platform to the other is via public streets/ footpaths. What is the longest walk simply to change direction? As a pair of starters I offer Sandal & Agbrigg...

I was up in London last week and when on a 717 on my way to Enfield Chase there was an announcement saying that I should move forward one coach if I wanted to alight at Bowes Park. When we arrived there my coach was completely in the platform with about 3-4m to spare. A 717 fits quite...

On thursday 5 October I was up in the midlands taking photos. Around midday I took a shot of 60047 on the morning Kingsbury tanks. In the afternoon I was at Wynchnor Jn when it came back north looking rather worse for wear, the return tanks having been cancelled. Anyone know how it received...

Well, the turbos took over the Beach line today and.. 0629 0836 0915 1115 departures from Avonmouth all cancelled. Not sure if it's the turbos or some other problem, but not a good start. :(

I've done a search and can't find anything on here yet. Can't believe no one else has read about it yet. Scotrail are looking at runnng a Glasgow/Edinburgh - Wick (or is it Thurso?) sleeper service. The stock will be the coaches displaced by the new MK5 build. The reasoning is to give...

I've been checking fares for a trip up to Norwich to do the 37s and 68s. I was surprised that I couldn't get a FC advance Bristol-Norwich. Further investigation revealed that it was the Liv Street-Norwich section causing the problem. No FC advances are available LST-NRW on any date at any...

On thursday 2/7/15 VTEC seemed to be in a right pickle. I've not seen a short formed 91 set in ages. On thursday I saw 3. 91126 was missing an FO 91128 likewise missing an FO 91130 missing a TSO not only that but, one HST set had an EMT power car on one end (43043) whilst another set had...

I arrived about 18:00 to find the board with delayed delayed etc. A 185 had broken down having made it about 100m or so out of the station westbound. Lovely.. I went to spoons for a meal and a pint, came back to find a whole load of 185s littered around the station and the broken down 185...

A nice day today, so I took my son down to WSM for the day. Coming home, I made sure we were on one of the Padds, the 17.01 off Weston. Shortly before our booked departure time there was an announcement that today the service would terminate at TM for another set forward and that it would be a...

Something that caught my interest while trying to find the Cumbrian coast loco hauleds is the reuse of headcodes. I'm familiar with the need to do so on busy routes, particularly around London, but why on the Cumbrian coast with its relatively low number of services? There seems to be an...

Browsing through one of the mags in my local smiffs and there's an interesting interview, giving details from the horse's mouth of forthcoming DRS loco hauleds. Anglia turn to be top and tail 37/4 with through wired coaches, so technically in multiple. This means that the use of a 37/4 is only...

On Top Gear someone sent in a routefinder output from somewhere in the Midlands to Cornwall avoiding the M5. The route was via Ireland and Spain. I've not had such a ridiculous output from a webpage myself until today. Take a look at this one..

I was watching a programme on BBC at the weekend - Countryfile I think it was. The presenter was visiting the rope making facility at Chatham dockyards. As he was talking about Chatham dockyards and its history he mentioned that the ships that defeated Napoleon at Waterloo were built there...

On Sat 29 June, I spent the morning at Barnetby before catching the first train of the day down the Brigg line. The Lincoln/Newark service that was due shortly before my train was the usual 153 and was already completely wedged on arrival. The guard opened the doors but announced that he...

I've just been trying to look up the prices of some rover and ranger tickets on the National Rail Enquiries site and all the fares are showing N/A or -. I haven't looked up every one, obviously, but I've tried loads including the ALR and they're all the same. Any clues as to what's going on...