Recent content by Blindtraveler

My best piece of advice not necessarily for Sunday but certainly for future is to use the passenger assist smartphone app, this allows you to book companion seats, wheelchair spaces etc and have them confirmed to you when the relevant TOC confirms the assistant. My other piece of advice is be...

I would assume that because the concession card is scanned and validated they are simply able to charge back in the same way as any bus operator. For trains. I would again expect that some kind of flat rate and your payment is agreed with operators for the carriage of visually impaired...

Are these off for scrap or are they going to be crap and unreliable at another depot? Somewhere else? I mean I can't imagine anybody wanting them as they are hammered

Would be almost worth a four member or two going all the way up there to test this. Sadly, with a start point of Kent, I don't think it'll be me

I still think they'll be sold while they are still in good condition for the purposes of fleet standardisation. And before anyone comes back at me and points out that they are well suited to the roots they run. I agree for the most part, but I suspect that such a Volvo heavy operation as The...

The ic7 0 would be fine if it weren't for the fixed armrest but I don't suppose even a refurbishment of rolling stock including them would be allowed now as they are notoriously uncrashworthy. But I take the points being made and agree with them about modern rolling stock. Being a step back in...

Very much tongue-in-cheek.

Hefty selection of enviro rattles there.

Well, let's hope it happens or they're going to struggle over the summer again, especially if one of the other larger ones breaks down

Have to agree that the add-ons are getting rather pricey now, I continue to justify it to myself that I'm paying for the reliability that the train simply doesn't offer so much of the time. And certainly in the case of most stuff on the ecml I'm paying for a better seat also, and a shorter time...

Unless someone can make hydrogen a potentially viable solution which are currently, I don't see it as then. We're still going to need a mid to long distance inter-urban vehicle with a suitably specked drivetrain and interior for some years. Yet. Electric will not work for every route and...

That is a really good find, especially for people like me. Not really wanting to stay in student infested Lancaster with its comparatively short supply of accommodation and higher prices

I face any long distance rail journey in this country now with a deal of resignation and pretty much no expectation other than the fact that I've paid a ferocious sum of money for very little. As far as I'm concerned for anything over a couple of hundred miles such as England or Wales to...

Given that the overwhelming majority of train tickets now include a QR code of some kind or are issued on a smart card, could we not have a QR and smart code reader on the door of waiting facilities, first class lounges etc etc. That would be sufficiently intelligent enough to Grant access to...

Been very lucky to actually have two services this week that did what they were meant to do in terms of first class offering. A London to Newcastle return trip, 1030 northbound on Tuesday and 1330 southbound on Thursday. Had the frittata and posh baked beans from the brunch menu, this was...