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https://www.railwaygazette.com/uk/battery-traction-trial-ahead-as-transpennine-express-fortunes-improve/65838.article Hopefully seeing a better service now on the WCML. About a year ago almost all the TPE services I attempted to travel on were cancelled. Any news about allowing their...

ok. very nerdy question. but when you have a table of 4 on a pendolino, you get 2 overhead reading spotlights for each pair of seats. are these angled differently so that one projects to the aisle seat, and the other to the window seat? if so then which one is for the window seat?

I booked an advance single from Glasgow to London last Friday afternoon, and an advance single from London to Glasgow last Sunday evening. The plan was for a weekend in London. The two tickets were purchased in separate bookings. All Friday trains were cancelled because of the storm, so I...

I have an Advance Open Return Stansted Express ticket from Liverpool St. I want to get to Soho on my return, and can see it's quicker to change onto the Victoria Line at Tottenham Hale. The ticket rules are clear "you cannot start, break or resume, or end your journey at any intermediate...

I guess this is the Cardiff to Manchester 'Premiere' route. I have been trying to pull this information out of the timetables using the 1st class marked times, but when checking what actually ran it seems some journeys were made with sprinters! Does anyone have a list of the times that use Mk...

has anyone put together a map showing current TSRs? they are available from Open Data here: https://wiki.openraildata.com/index.php?title=TSR

I often take long WCML trips, and tended to sit in coach U. The wifi signal on both my phone and laptop would vary to the point of becoming unusable, especially around Oxenholme. Recently I've been sitting in coaches A and B, and to my surprise, wifi is now usable pretty much for most of the...

I've noticed that, especially on Fridays and Saturdays more Avanti Glasgow-Euston services are stopping at Crewe, Rugby, Milton Keynes, whereas before they were non-stop WBQ to Euston. This is pushing journey times over 5 hours end-to-end. Can anyone shed light on why this is?

I'm booked (advance) on a TPE train leaving Manchester at 7.30pm. In the likely event that it is cancelled there is a 7.34pm Avanti and 8.34pm Avanti. All 3 trains go to my destination. Do I have to take the 7.34pm or could I equally take the 8.34pm?

I consider myself quite adept at getting cheap train tickets, always booking well in advance, and making liberal use of split-ticketing. But the situation with Avanti has gone from difficult to impossible. They've virtually eliminated the split-ticketing tricks, and advances are like needles in...

Just spotted this. https://www.recenttraintimes.co.uk/Home/Service?ServiceId=99800061 and that's stopping at both Morpeth and Newcastle. Is LUMO able to accelerate faster than the LNER Azumas as it has lighter seats, a shorter trainset, and no diesel backup?

Take one of the RailSail tickets available online in Scotland .eg. Glasgow Central to Rothesay day return. Why is it for sale a few pounds more expensive with other TOCs compared to ScotRail? Surely it should be the same price everywhere. I say this as ScotRail's website just plain doesn't...

planning a tight 4 minute connection at Shipley from Platform 1 to Platform 3W. will be arriving from Carlisle to platform 1. is the footbridge at the back end of the train? and is 4 mins do-able? what does the "W" mean?

I sometimes buy a travelcard from a station outside zone 6 to travel into central London. On my return to the start station the ticket is always retained by the barriers. Recently I had to make 2 trips into central London on the same day, and by chance I kept my travelcard as the barriers were...

Is it possible to store a bike on platform 16 at Euston if you are travelling later in the day? I am planning on taking the evening sleeper, and want to keep the bike there at lunchtime.

hi. train is retimed to depart 3 minutes earlier than when i bought the ticket, but will arrive at the same time at my destination

These are the performance statistics for the last 100 days of weekday services Southbound (Avanti/LNER only) on the ECML and WCML . You can see that quite a large number of ECML services have decent punctuality, whereas the WCML seems to be almost uniformly terrible. From personal experience...

I would like to know the official rules on alighting from a train with a standard class ticket at a door which is unambiguously in the 1st class section i.e. sandwiched between two 1st class coaches. Where this is useful is if 1st class is at the buffers end arriving at a London terminus and...

Couldn't find this info anywhere. Does anyone know where the traction motors etc. are located on a Nova unit? At a guess E, C, and A are unpowered?

Probably most would agree that a punctual, smooth-running journey with low occupancy is always the most plesant way to travel. If you had the choice of making a trip any time of day, any day of the week, what are some good tips to find those services? Here are a few guesses of mine: The...