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I used to fly on business when I was working and my recollection is that the flights to places I went were pretty much fixed for years and always departed at the same time. Just dropped relatives off for a flight to Gibraltar and BA490 which is a daily flight seems to depart at a different time...

Just happened to be following another train on Opentrack and spotted this apparently in a siding between Chi and Barnham. I think its the long disused gravel site. An aberration or something real ???

While I have seen the occasional red livery unit on west coastway, a journey I did out to Pevensey yesterday seemed to have a large number of Gatx units providing the service from Brighton to Ore/Eastbourne. Is this due to a shortage of Southern stock or a surplus of Gatx ?? Interestingly the...

Its been a few years since I travelled on Eurostar, indeed it was still running from Waterloo at the time. One real advantage was you could take food and drink on board and consume your own picnic as you watched the world go by. However recent google searches produce conflicting messages...

First of all thanks to the site for alerting me to the existence of CIV tickets. However the CIV ticket to LNE seems more expensive so what am I doing wrong. As suggested I looked at BR fares and Emsworth to LNE comes up as £40.70 standard class single walk up fare. Little note says 'fare set...

Hi, havent found an answer on here but I am going to travel Eurostar London to Amsterdam (2 people) and then return (4 people) Looking at fares it seems they have a price for each leg (as do most airlines now) but I did see that if I just go for a single then the price of each leg is higher than...

Hi. I have a couple of US friends coming over next year for a few months. Their plan was to fly to Zurich to visit relatives, then to UK and then back to the US. I mentioned the possibility of train travel from Zurich to UK although looking at the route (via Paris) it doesnt seem particularly...

Hope the title makes sense but on a couple of occasions since the partial electrification of the GW lines I have noticed that electric supply continues off the core route in a few places. At Southcote junction the Basingstoke line has masts (and wire ??) for a short distance. After Westerleigh...

Trains one way but not other from Pevensey and Westham. A relative is moving to Pevensey so I looked up options to visit and came across what to me seems an anomaly. Basically Pevensey and Westham is served by trains from Eastbourne to Ashford and return, London Vic to Ore and return and by a...

A lot of press exposure about Dawlish and of course climate change warnings but how many other railway lines are in danger. I know the view from the East Coast line is spectacular and the cliff edge seems quite close at times but I also came across this picture of the Boulby branch and not only...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/caught-using-a-child-ticket.231978/ Whilst not directly related to the OP issue and maybe needs to be a different thread I am often surprised how little is being saved for the risk involved. Of course a small saving over 100...

Any thoughts on replica totems. There is a company on ebay producing really authentic looking ones complete with rust spots and dings as found on genuine ex BR ones. I am not in any way knocking the company concerned as they are correctly advertised as replica and to be honest look brilliant if...

As its now closed I put this in history but I was wondering how and when Newhaven Marine changed from Newhaven Harbour. I just came across a great Dick Emery sketch on you tube taken at Newhaven. Look up BBC Dick Emery sketch selection on you tube. You can hear the announcer clearly specify...

Too much time on my hands and whilst normally the sighting of 'Station Road' can bring the site of a railway or ex railway I have come across a few oddballs where Station Road doesnt lead to a station. Swanwick station (Hampshire) is on Duncan Road, there is a Station Road in the town but that...

Back in the mid 1980's I was on a JAT (Yugoslavia as was) flight from Ljubljana and not being a frequent flyer I wasnt used to the normal east west pattern of today. However I was surprised to come in over the GWR (Western region back then) mainline in the vicinity of Southall as I recognised...

Usually for this route I get a nice advance 1st from Oxford to Southampton then a standard fare from Southampton with Southern. As XC advances seem to have tripled in price at the moment (for 1st class) I find that a basic off peak return is now cheaper overall even in standard class and gives...