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Tbh I don’t see why you’d use XC going north from Nottingham. I’ve always found changing at Grantham faster and cheaper. Ultimately though, as with 90% of the rest of their problems, the issue comes from not having enough trains. Oh what a difference having even just a small fleet of 7 car...

Recently saw a group of I think three uniformed staff smoking openly on the busy platform. Not very consistent with all the no smoking signs/announcements

Depending on where you’re coming from, and whether your train is stopping there anyway, it might be better to get off at Vauxhall and get the Victoria line directly from there.

That’s partly due to a bug in RTT when you use those filters. If you select A, stopping later at B, it also shows those that stop earlier at B if they pass through A non-stopping.

On the homepage, RRT lists “popular departure boards”. These are all as one would expect (the London termini, Clapham Junction, Manchester Piccadilly etc.), expect the last, which is a prank. It cycles through a number of very lightly used stations (Sugar Loaf, Portsmouth Arms etc). Thought I’d...

The 0006 is the last connection from Runcorn East to Ince and Elton. Edited to add that I noticed the question specifies that “traffic“ day. In which case, the 0437 is the last connection from Llandudno Junction to Ince and Elton. What counts as the beginning of a “traffic” day needs defining...

My preferred app is Railboard (it might be available only on iOS, not sure). It’s simple, clean, well laid out and fast, but also has almost all the features I need. It also remember your details such as railcards well, and it’s very easy to find tickets you’ve bought etc. It also automatically...

Any links where I can read more about “this man”?

There are certainly lines where this could work. However, not most of them. A line at full capacity can take a 12 coach train more or less every 3 minutes per track. A 12 coach train can take well over a thousand people. Let’s call it a thousand to be conservative. That’s 333 people per minute...

You may as well change at one of the other central stations the first time instead of Whitechapel, as you’ll be changing there again.

A solution they have done before is run down the Cotswold, through Oxford, avoiding curve at Didcot and then become a service to the west (via Swindon to South Wales/Bristol), allowing passengers from both directions to change at Oxford for London, and saving valuable terminating space.

There‘s also Exeter St David’s, Tiverton Parkway, Taunton. But something XC starting from Bristol is ok on the southern end, annoyingly leaving just Darlington, Durham.

What is the longest service to call at no two consecutive stations along its route? In other words, it must pass through a station non-stop between each of its calls. Length can be either by distance, or number of stops (the latter is perhaps more interesting). For example, the fast Kings Cross...

Reading West would probably be better, as you get the container trains from Southampton, as well as stone from the west.

In terms of direct trains to the most large destinations, Berwick upon Tweed does very well for a not particularly large town. Newcastle, York, Leeds, Sheffield, Birmingham, Bristol, Exeter, Plymouth, Penzance, Manchester, Liverpool, London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen, Perth, Inverness...

Why does the myth that the Scotrail ones start/stop more than they used to keep persisting? Has anyone looked at the timetable? They generally have longer between stops than they did under GWR…

“Where does this train stop?“ (insert station name)

“Captain, captain, ever since we’ve fitted this newer mast our ship keeps nearly capsizing. What shall we do?” “Put the Aldermaston”

What’s the make of your car? Bentley

The other change is the Didcot stops in half the Oxford fasts when they run again.