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I've noticed a common theme in many of the threads in the Disputes & Prosecutions forum: that our forum experts often suggest tweaks to the English used in responses and requests for information, even down to replacing 'American-izations'. This got me wondering if people with lower levels of...

Heard a trailer to this programme to be broadcast on Radio 4, Monday 29th May at 8pm, and subsequently on BBC Sounds. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001mc65 May be of interest to some forum members.

My Mum has tickets - bought through the RailUK site - to travel from Penally to Huddersfield on Thurs 15th Dec. The itinerary on her ticket is to leave PNA at 07:24 and arrive at HUD at 15:08. It is looking like the 07:24 train is cancelled so the next one is at 09:34 arriving at 17:08...

Wondering what the situation is with flexi seasons and cancellations leading to abandoned journeys. I have one ticket left on my TPE flexi season which I was planning to use today. While eating my breakfast I have spotted that the next two trains from Dewsbury to Huddersfield are cancelled...

Just thought I'd post this YouTube video I've just watched. It's only a few minutes long and gives an interesting, brief insight into the challenges of rockfall detection. There's some stunning drone footage even if the technicalities aren't of interest.

Inspired by the thread about using the train instead of the car, I'm looking at using to the train to visit my Mum in Tenby (TEN) next month. Cost is very reasonable with advances and timing not too bad. It used to be that the service from Manchester was 2 hourly, with a decent connection at...

I had a day trip out with my family yesterday (just Batley to Hebden Bridge) - 2 adults and 2 children, no railcard. I bought them on Trainsplit and had the PDF tickets on my phone. It seemed a bit of a faff having to open each ticket individually to be scanned by the guard. I recall that it...

I've been planning a journey from Coventry (COV) to Weybridge (WYB) on Friday 3rd September. COV 0732, change London, arr WYB 0957. WYB 1712, change London, arr COV 1942. National Rail gives a flexible return price of £64.10 which seems pretty reasonable to me. I went to Avanti to book as they...

Sorry if this is already mentioned elsewhere but I did search first. From The Yorkshire Post a few days ago (title is link to article): Wensleydale Railway reveal plans for their new Pacers - including bike trains and James Herriot tours

I'm in Tenby with my parents and we fancied a curry. I tried Just-Eat which came up with no results at all for any kind of food. Same for UberEats (and Uber itself). Obviously Tenby's only a small town (c.5k in the winter) but it got me wondering: what is the largest town in the UK that has no...

Just hoping someone on here can give me an idea of what time the carpark at Wakefield Kirkgate is likely to become full on a weekday. Thanks in advance.

Renewing my F&F railcard, which has my wife and I both named on the card. I've spotted that it can now be delivered digitally and stored on 2 smartphones. This makes a scenario possible and I want to make sure this is OK to do. My wife and son are travelling to Manchester Airport on a Friday...

Thought some forum readers might be interested in these news stories that appeared this week from the University of Huddersfield relating to the Institute of Railway Research. New £3.5m test rig for pantograph research £4.5m test rig puts new two-axle rail vehicle through its paces...

Hi, Staying in London (Sidcup) for a few days with our children (12 and 8). We don't have Oyster or any of the child zip products but do have F&F Railcard. Tomorrow we want to travel by bus to Bromley at around 8:45am to meet friends then from Bromley to London by train and tube in the morning...

Just spotted this at Huddersfield. Apparently the cancelled 1650 service has 3 carriages... The top row shows the service with the departure time replaced with 'cancelled'. The 2nd row has the calling points scrolling, followed by 'This train has 3 carriages' Any other examples of contradictory...

On the 0746 Dewsbury to Manchester. Full and standing as usual, and there are two sets of double seats taken up by people sleeping like babies. If you were going a fair distance and wanted to sit down, would you wake them?

A couple of years ago I had the misfortune to have to travel on a Sunday from Whitland to Manchester on a packed, noisy, hot 150 with no catering for the 6 hour journey. I understand this was common on Sundays at the time due to ATW being a couple of 175s down. I may have to do this journey...

Hi, I've searched on here and not found the answer I need - so apologies if I've missed it. There's a reference to a long haul flights with baggage reclaim and customs etc but not short haul. I'm taking the family to Dublin for a few days, and looking at Airport Advances for rail travel. I'm...

Hello, I've looked at the TFL guidance for travelling with children in London, and find it confusing about who pays for what under which conditions - so sure the gurus here can help. In a couple of weeks we'll be driving to Sidcup, where we will leave the car. On Saturday morning we will get...

I will be making 5 return journeys with my two children from Batley to Huddersfield in a few weeks time. I have a WYPTE Metrocard to cover my journey so would I be able to buy discounted F&F tickets just for my children, or does there have to be a purchase of an adult ticket as well? Thanks.