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Bit of an odd ball question here. I am a frequent user of the GWR mainline, HS1, the South Western mainline and South Eastern. A few years ago when I used the Caledonian sleeper for the first time, I noticed a particular "whirring" type noise from the ? Track ? Wheels as it was travelling at...

The local paper, Kent Online suggests " Talks have taken place between Kent and East Sussex County councils" https://www.kentonline.co.uk/thanet/news/talk-over-direct-high-speed-trains-from-thanet-to-bournemout-287529/ Yes it would be a nice thing to have but !!!!!

Thought as there was no queue at the ticket office at Waterloo the other day, I would get my ticket from there rather than using the self service machines. Surprised when I was issued with a flimsy paper barcode type ticket .. Yeuch .. But then when I got to the barriers at Waterloo East I...

Thinking of buying a kent rover . On the south eastern trains website they are available but have to be purchased three days in advance as earlier dates are blacked out on booking page. I can't see anything on validity pages on national rail website about them needing to be bought three days...

A comment on the Caledonian sleeper thread triggered a memory. Wonder if anyone has the answer ! Someone commented about passenger coaches being attached to mail trains and it instantly triggered a memory of a ' network day' in the 1980's. For those who are not as old as me; these were days at...

So many stations now have so many places to eat but I end up at least once a week Hungry at Bristol Temple Meads. There is no Leon, no Pret, well, hardly anything. A pasty stall, small sandwich stall and a Starbucks kiosk in the Subway and an Upper crust kiosk on platform three. There is...

Sigh. We have enough automatic announcements to put up with on the new Hitachi IET trains as it is, but so many journeys are spent listening to ' would the host in the rear carriages make an IC call' ' would the customer host pick up the next IC call' etc etc etc again again and again .. Can't...

Hi. I have been baffled by several apparent paradoxes and i wonder if any of you know the truth !!!?? I am a very regular traveller between Ashford International and Bristol I usually end up with either an off peak return or a super off peak return. These have restriction codes such as YC...