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Hi I've noticed that you can book advanced tickets from Edinburgh to Newcastle with LNER for Fri 29th Sep, and Monday 2nd October, but not for 30th Sep/1st Oct. Same applies for a couple of weekends before. Is it just a case of waiting for them to become available, or is there something else...

Hi I'd booked a week (Mon-Fri) away in Newcastle before the recent rail strikes were announced, for this week. It's obviously very disappointing, but fully support the striking workers so decided to cut it short by a day and come back on Thursday. Fast forward to today, and there's no...

I was just having a scan over this Welsh Government document, when I noticed a couple of things I'd not before: https://www.gov.wales/sites/default/files/publications/2020-07/north-wales-main-line-rail-network-map.pdf 1. I thought we were due to have 1tph from Liverpool Lime St, destination...

I've been a tad confused as it doesn't seem possible to buy a child's weekly ticket for Stagecoach in the Torbay area (possibly not anywhere!). Anyway, I wondered what the cheapest option would be for a family of 5 (2 adults, 3 children [1x 8yo, 2x5 yo]) who wanted to ... 1. Travel from Exeter...

Hopefully a self-explanatory title, but sitting on Shrewsbury railway station yesterday, I started wondering why the platforms were numbered 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. I mean, clearly at some point there were 8 platforms (though not sure if the prison platform would've been numbered!), but there's now...

I was booking a train up to Edinburgh from Crewe recently, and noticed that it was cheaper to split the [advance] ticket at Oxenholme - nothing new there. I also noticed that the price for a first class upgrade for the Crewe-Oxenholme section was low enough (a couple of quid) that it made sense...

Just wondering about the two lines suggested in the TfW "speculative ideas" thing, namely: - Reopen the Amlwch branch - Reopen Bangor - Caernarfon - Porthmadog line Just wondered how realistic either of those proposals were (let's just assume that we're only concerned with the practicalities...

Any idea what's going on with the old waiting room on the island platform (plat 2/3)? They've knocked 2 door-sized holes in the back of the waiting room, and taken out t& boarded up the old windows/doors in the non-waiting-room bit. Also, as a side note, is there any news etc on the planned...

Cambrian Heritage Railways have acquired a couple of pacers to run a shuttle service from Gobowen to Oswestry. There's also proposals for the North East Wales Metro to incorporate a new station in Wrexham South. To me, there seems to be a fairly obvious thing to do if the infrastructure...

Apologies if this is in the wrong forum. I've tried looking on the NationalRail and Transport for Wales journey planners for a planned trip from Wrexham to Knighton on Saturday (21st November), but it only shows a journey on the Sunday (22nd). Trains on 20th November also seem unaffected, in...

Today I've been wondering about undemanding jobs - ones with the smallest (time-wise) proportion of active 'doing something' in the working day. So, what's the least work-y job on the railways? I imagine there must be a handful on particularly low frequency, rural lines where it's cheaper to...

Was writing this as a reply to the 'free public transport' thread, but it probably deserves it's own as it's widely off topic: There's a Young Person's (16-30) railcard, Two Together railcard, Family railcard, Senior railcard, .. would it just make sense to combine all these in to maybe 2 or 3...

I've noticed that the last couple of times I've got on the 18:30 Chester-Wrexham (well, Cardiff) service, it's been made from the incoming 17:20 Manchester-Chester train. Is this a regular thing now? It'd be dead handy having an unoffical direct Mcr-Wrx service ... :)

Say I buy a train ticket where the fastest journey involves a connection where you need to walk between two stations (e.g. Wigan North Western & Wigan Wallgate, or Burscough Junction & Burscough Bridge), are you required to make that walking connection? (or rather, is that counted as the...

Sort of related to this thread: http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=155019 Are there any 'unofficial' sleeper services, ie service trains that you could use for effective overnight travel. Departing at any reasonable time (say before 1am but not strict) and arriving after 5am (again...