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    off peak question regarding times

    If I get a long distance off peak train (including a change) that leaves first destination at 10.30 and Cross Country at 1pm and arrives at 5, will that not be off peak because the arrival time is peak hours? Or does it go by the time you get on the train?
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    Do not travel warning from Chiltern!

    I think because of the game at Wembley today, Chiltern are advising anyone without a ticket for that match not to travel now, even with a rail ticket. Seems extreme for a bank holiday Saturday. A lot of Coventry fans will be using Avanti or other operators anyway. Surely the Coventry fans will...
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    Runcorn to Wellingborough

    Looking on the trainline and it won't show any tickets via London, are you able buy an off peak return ticket that will allow you to change via London (i.e. at Euston to change at St Pancras)? The other laborious routes require multiple changes and involve engineering works on the day i'm...
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    WCML issues this weekend

    Services up against it due to Avanti strikes yesterday but a signalling failure around Watford led to lines being blocked for most of the afternoon, when Avanti services were due to stop around 4pm anyway. LNR ended up having a nightmare evening with delays and cancellations, as well as having...
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    Wembley post-gig 18/06

    Total chaos with people queueing for hours outside Wembley Park with no organisation and non-moving queue after Harry Styles gig. Concert finished at half 10 resulting in thousands of people missing their connections home. Another gig tonight. What went wrong?
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    Late LNR service 21/05/2022 from Milton Keynes to Euston after concert

    Sounds horrendous from reading social media, that after a 30,000 concert in Milton Keynes last night at Stadium MK, there was only one train back to Euston from Bletchley and dangerously overcrowded with many more left stranded. Another gig there later today and with Sunday cancellations...
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    Coldest UK railway station

    I always find Preston and Crewe freezing
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    The rolling stock shortage

    A lot of TOCs seem to have the same problem at the moment of too often short forming services while they wait for new rolling stock. Cross Country, Northern, West Midlands Trains, TransPennine Express, East Midlands Railway to name a few. On social media their stock response is a variance of "We...
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    The growing problem of knife crime

    Moderator note: split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/man-stabbed-on-guildford-to-london-train-near-horsley.176035/page-6 The way the country is going it's head down and mind your own business. Looking at someone wrong can get you stabbed, let alone a stand up row. It's become the...
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    Cross Country's capacity issues: how could they be solved?

    These trains tend to be ridiculously overcrowded more regularly than other operators and one of the hardest to get a seat. Particularly through Birmingham. Is it just a case of the rolling stock being wholly inadequate and not enough carriages?
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    First class upgrade

    As a fed up rail user on a Saturday i've decided I want to start upgrading to sitting down and therefore travelling first class. How do you get an upgrade on the weekend (I believe it's about £20?). Can you just sit in first class and ask the guard/inspector to upgrade your ticket, or do you...
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    Liverpool South Parkway - London service

    This is still ongoing while Lime Street is refurbished. Does anyone know why (going by the Trainline) it takes half an hour to get from South Parkway to Runcorn? Bearing in mind it takes 10 minutes to get from South Parkway to Runcorn on the Birmingham train. The journey is about 20 minutes...

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