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I hold a an annual county card which covers unlimited travel on the city zone (which I understand is equivilent to zone 1) of manchester metrolink, and I'm wondering how practical it is to avoid paying again for the zone 1 element of my journys Specifically: 1. Will a metrolink TVM sell me a...

Last sunday, mum and I visited st helens. She has a TFGM old persons pass and a Senior railcard, I have a countycard. The cheapest option would have been to travel to St helens central via wigan, but the connections were horrible, so we decided to get the train From Stockport to Picadilly and...

On sunday I arrived at newton-le-willows to catch a train and was suprised to see zero information on which platform my train would go from. There was no fixed signage as far as I could see. The departures board listed trains but gave no information on platforms. The same was true of live...

Is there any way to look up planned engineering works on longer timescales than NRE offers? In particular i'm interested in the bank holiday next august. I realise things may not be finalised at this time but I understand that major works are typically planned a long way in advance.

Last night (around 22:30 I think but i'm not sure of the exact time) I caught a metrolink from Picadilly Gardens to Picadilly. On arrival in picadilly the routes to the mainline station were blocked off by staff and there were automated announcments saying we should leave the metrolink station...

Last tuesday mum and I travelled from somewhere in the vicinity of stockport to the trafford centre and back. Mum was using a TFGM old persons pass (with train and metrolink validity added) while I was using a countycard* and a contactless debit card. We arrived at picadilly by train, went to...

There used to be a place called olympic freight terminal, in the V formed where the line from Picadilly towards guide bridge, splits off from the line towards stockport, near ardwick station. I would see it every day as I went past on the train into Manchester. It has recently been demolished, I...

There are some lines around that have lots of fast trains, but virtually no stoppers. A couple of examples around greater Manchester. Guide Bridge to Stalybridge. Used regularly (though not as regularly as it used to be) by Transpennine services from Manchester to Staylybridge and beyond but if...

In london there are numerous locations where ticket barriers serve various mixtures of National Rail, London Underground, DLR and even in one case tramlink. This creates a few issues as have been discussed ad-nausium elsewhere on this forum. It left me wondering a few things though. 1. What is...

I recently took a private hire taxi home from a station that gets services later than my local station. The taxi was booked from one of the large firms in the Stockport area from a local station that gets services later than my local station does. This is something I do somewhat frequently and I...

Recently I caught a Manchester to Stoke train and was suprised to see a pair of 323s turn up. It was announced that for one of the intermediate stations that passengers should travel in the front 4 coaches and for another intermediate station that they should travel in the front 5 coaches. I...

As I do almost every year I will be travelling from the Stockport area to the Cambridge area on the August bank holiday. Travelling down late morning on Saturday 27th and Returning around teatime on Monday 29th. I may use local stations if it seems expediant, but i'm happy to use taxis to get...

Not so long ago I and some people I was with had some time to kill while we were in sheffield and were in possession of a plusbus ticket, so we decided to go for a walk paralell to the tramway before catching a tram back when we ran out of time. We walked along the path following the tramway...

The circle line of the London underground calls at Paddington twice, but in totally different parts of the station complex. Since the opening of crossrail Moorgate has been joined with Liverpool Street and Farringdon with barbican. So the Circle, Metropolatain and hammersmith and city lines make...

The mainline railway put maps of their stations on national rail enquiries, some of these maps are better than others but at least they exist. Does anything similar exist for stations on TfLs network.

IIRC HS2 will only be half an hour or so faster than the classic lines, there is also talk of compulsory reservations, which will mean bookjing on a specific train and making sure one catches it. It seems to me that this will waste much of the time saved. And it doesn't seem like it will be...

Platform 5 at Stevenage, can only be used by trains from/to the Hertford loop, but it's located on the opposite side of the station from the hertford loop. Are there any other places where a platform exclusively or at least mostly used by trains from a branch line is on the "wrong" side of the...

There seem to be some combinations in TFL's single fares finder which say no fares available, for example reading NR to Waterloo NR. From looking at maps I belive it is possible to make this journey without passing through any intermediate ticket barriers and without leaving the PAYG area by...

There must be shed loads of 2-platform stations where you have to leave the station to change platforms, But what if-any 3+ platform stations are there that fall into this category? Cheadle Hulme used to be split into three seperate sections (platform 1, platform 2/3 and platform 4) each with...

On many threads in this forum I have been told there are a whole bunch of crashworthyness rules on train seats for new trains. Yes the new thameslink and Crossrail trains were built with londitudanal bench seats which seem to provide no protection whatsoever in the event of a crash. What gives?