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It slightly amuses me on the peak time XC north from Sheffield which has 6 minute dwell that some people who are presumably not regulars are visibly annoyed when somebody sits next to them on the two thirds empty carriage, which 5 minutes later has every seat taken. Similar with the hopeless...

I got caught up trying to get back to Sheffield with a First class advance on Sunday 7th and having to settle for getting the following service, managed to get seats only through a combination of dumb luck, physical fitness and knowledge of where the scant unreserved seats are. Anecdotal...

Wish I'd known about this as I was on 222001 on Saturday looking for a seat in coaches B & C that didn't look like the one from Twitter upthread and it was difficult. The bog standard Voyager I got on the way back felt like a brand new train by comparison.

Thanks for the helpful advice on here, I will probably end up shelling out for the taxi as the least stressful option but it's good to know that even on a Sunday morning there are a few alternatives.

In my wisdom I've booked a reservation on the afternoon Bernina Express from Tirano to Chur for Sunday 24 September, which it transpires is a Trenord regional strike day. I've booked accomodation the previous night in Bellano since it's on the Tirano line. As a taxi to Tirano is likely to be...

I was thinking of the Eurostar waiting area which doesn't have much in it, although thinking about it you'd be changing onto a TGV so presumably be going up to the main concourse which is fine.

I used this train a couple of times and about half the load came from Ashford and Ebbsfleet on those. It was a lovely option to have if you lived on the MML to avoid CDG airport. Still doable of course but sitting in the waiting area at Lille after doing the same at St Pancras isn't...

Nothing for four hours in either direction through Sheffield from 1411 today, with the services on each side of the gap 3 car. Tasty!

Is there any precedent for a TOC fully giving up on a day with no external factors (weather, emergency services, strike) to blame?

I made it a total of 3 services in each direction successfully made it the whole length of Liverpool - Cleethorpes, as against 14/13 in the published timetable, the majority operated by a single unit.

The 0824 off Cleethorpes is the first to make it all the way to Lime Street in either direction, get in!

Slightly off topic consumer rights query: My train back from Lille is now cancelled so intend to travel the following day, if I source my own accommodation will I be able to claim back from Eurostar? Or is it a case of either showing up and hoping they can provide it on the day, or claim on...

The list now on the strike page misses off Sheffield to Leeds via Moorthorpe despite there being a strike timetable for it.

The inter city services were already due to start from/terminate at Luton on the 25th due to engineering work, is that still the case?

Assuming I make it back from France on an Interrail pass and need to get a ticket written out at St Pancras for onward travel the following day, is the ticket office likely to be closed too?

On the other hand you have the situation with Voyagers where the narrow gangways and lack of seats mean everyone trying to board coach C (used for short-term reservations) getting shouted at to board at a quieter door, which nobody is going to do when they know they will never make it to their...

On the one hand this is about a 20% capacity reduction on the South Transpennine from 2x185, on the other hand a large chunk of the time they've been running has been pandemic-hit. Some leisure travellers won't even realise it ever was 2x185.

This happened in 2015 and was apparently due to some sort of system error, although they had already had 14 years to iron out the creases by then.

I wasn't going to bother as WMT paid for my journey anyway due to a missed connection, but will do if it's an egregious error on safety grounds. As a fairly regular XC passenger it's pretty hard to tell what standard practice should look like. For example, on another double Voyager leaving...

Coach A on a double Voyager clearly had about six passengers in it and the door button, although illuminated, was not operable. After three attempts at knocking on the door over about two minutes we were allowed in by what I took to be an off-duty train manager after the following conversation...