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Your first post on this forum on the 20th January was in reply to Kaius26 about going for an interview: You asked "Did you manage to get it all sorted?" Is there something you are not telling us?

So you expect there to be more accidents now ScotRail is being run by the Scottish Government?

Perhaps they should base it on the Avanti one, then hardly anyone will be able to buy the ticket they want and £Billions can be saved by not running trains.

Well clearly whatever SR give as their excuse for this year, the real reason must be that they weren't expecting the DMUs to be ready this quickly. They will need to think of an improved excuse for 2023.

The Golden Jubilee Bridges each side of the Hungerford Railway Bridge were extremely complex. I doubt that adding footbridges to most other railway bridges across the Thames would be as difficult as that project was. There is plenty written about them and the difficulties caused by tube lines...

If you only have a single website selling tickets then it would need to be 100% correct which is extremely unlikely to be achieved. With multiple websites you can always use an alternative when you cannot get the correct result from a particular seller. Can you imagine the chaos if the Avanti...

The Avanti planner is hopeless. I want to travel from Basingstoke to Tweedbank avoiding London (so changing from Cross Country in the West Midlands). There is no option to put avoid London (All stations) and it says Ooops something went wrong.

I might have agreed with you about Albania until the recent announcement about about the Black Sea and Adriatic Sea link in the IRJ https://www.railjournal.com/freight/agreement-to-complete-adriatic-sea-black-sea-connection/ Of course agreeing to do something and actually doing it are two...

Have RENFE input the times following the December timetable changes? I don't know, but they don't have a very good record in the past.

So after 10 months of no service and many millions of pounds we are back where we started: Only one train an hour running Trains being cancelled Trains regularly running late

There are Wikipedia entries for both these stations (though the second is Winton, not Wigton), and both these entries include both coordinates and OS Map references, and details of what remains of them, so they should be easy for you to find.

The same is also true if you find a British Rail sandwich, but then they were never edible even when new.

You mean they have only just realised people are travelling for free? This has been going on for donkeys years.

The only time I got into Stewarts Lane was when a train out of Victoria used it as a diversionary route, late one evening.

Travelling today on SWR it is clear that the month long strike has had an effect. Whereas passengers were previously mostly in favour of trains always having guards on them, the consensus is now much more "We would prefer trains with guards on, but if the guards don't want to work, then we would...

Despite their shambles of a website, I managed to send them a question. Apparently their average response time is 15 days! So I should get a response by Christmas Eve. I am poised in anticipation. They clearly have no interest in IT or customer service. I wonder what they know about running...

Not at all. We all regularly come in contact with far higher voltages than 25,000 volts - every time we get we get a shock from static electricity for example, or remember Van de Graaf generators from schools and museums? The volts give the jolts, but it is the current that does the damage.

Well you did get a bargain as a one year senior railcard usually costs £30. It is only a benefit however if you buy tickets using it to the value of at least 3 times the price you paid. You can of course buy a Senior Railcard at a manned station at the time you buy the ticket, though at the...

Reducing the speed of trains would reduce their consumption of diesel. This has the additional benefit in that the trains would also not be able to travel so far in a day, thus further reducing diesel consumption. Trains would in addition not wear out so quickly. Plenty of benefits. There are...

Do you really think so? Most passengers would be totally unaware of this, or how to find out how to find the hashtag for their service. On train announcements on my delayed Eurostar together with another glass of wine seemed more than adequate for me.