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Many years ago, before HS2 was thought of, there was a serious proposal to completely re-build Euston on two levels to segregate arriving and departing passengers as much as possible. The tracks and platforms would have been at much the same level with arriving passengers leaving the station via...

I am a long-time user of this route, from the days when a diesel loco hauled a rake of Mk 1 coaches from somewhere North of WFJ to ECR & onwards. I have always wondered why the voltage change was not done at the next station - just think of all the amps that could have been saved by the train...

There have been comparisons with HS1, I worked on the Green Arrow (Costain / Hochtieff) bid for the construction of what is now known as HS1. It was a totally different type of contract. The line of route was determined by the Client, London & Continental Railways (?). They had pre-determined...

Good afternoon. We recently tried to travel from St Albans to Brighton for a day by the sea. Our train was terminated at London Bridge because of a fatality near Gatwick. As neither another railway route nor a replacement bus was offered, we decided to spend our time at Canary Wharf instead of...

Steve Montgomery was on BBC Radio 4's Today programme just after 0750 this morning. He stated that if the first offer made to Aslef was accepted then in a year's time the average train driver would be on £64,000 a year. Is this figure correct?

Try as a may I cannot get to it so please send a link to the tweet by Simon White. Thanks.

If I understand the situation correctly, the Railway Delivery Group has said that any pay rises can only be paid for by such things as doing away with archaic driver's rosters and making them "fit for the 21st Century", however they have not yet given any indication of what is currently archaic...

"...you could save money by splitting tickets even when a through ticket was available." Sorry to labour the point. but clearly in this case the split ticket costs 50% more than the through ticket, so why would you bother to split?

I thought the idea of a split was to travel the much the same route for less money, here you travel north to Tring catch a southbound train to Euston which passes through Hemel (without stopping), it takes19 minutes longer (nearly double the "direct" distance) and costs 50% more! However, if...

Anyone any thoughts on how or why the £22.70 fare is on the National Rail Journey Planner but not on the LNW site?

How does an ordinary passenger know that - how is it the window labelled?

In the very first post the OP wrote "When they arrived at Leeds they went straight to the internal ticket office to purchase the tickets, as they were buying the tickets some staff came up and told the staff member selling them the tickets that they couldn't sell them after the journey and that...

Please be aware that an ALR ticket is not necessarily cheaper than buying a number of individual tickets for the tour! Three years ago we did and "grand tour" Paddington (sleeper) - Cornwall - Anglesey - Far North of Scotland - Euston (sleeper). We bought the tickets well in advance, taking...

Thanks. I will let you know how I get on.

On the web from LNW trains. The email confirmation came from [email protected]

I am endeavouring to claim a full refund for the journey I did not make on Friday 18th February from East Dulwich to St Albans City for a ticket bought from London North Western Trains. (I actually made the journey by car on Saturday 19th February 2022.) The LNW website either takes me to...

Given that the stations, the trains and the staff were already being paid for I cannot see how the marginal costs could have made it unprofitable. I would suggest that the Wikipedia entry on Red Star gives a more accurate reason for the demise. I would suggest that there can be no doubt that it...

Those of a certain age will recall that once upon a time you could take a parcel to the local British Rail station and it would be delivered quite quickly to a station near to the intended recipient usually for collection, but some large cities offered an onward delivery service to the door...

But I do! "Don't ask how I know this!" is a rhetorical question. I could have written "Been there, seen it, done it, got the tee-shirt."

The rules are actually very clear! If the train manager / guard / whatever sees that, for whatever reason, that Standard Class has Passengers in Excess, they can contact Control and obtain consent to de-classifying 1st Class. They then make the following annoincement "Ladies and Gentlemen, in...