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The past few months at maidenhead station i've noticed people wearing high visibility jackets with "welfare Marshall" written on the back. They only ever seem to be on platform 5 (which is used once an hour (once per 30 mins in offpeak). What are they actually there for and do they exist at...

I make a return journey daily on gwr and am delayed a lot I submit a delay repay request for all my delays, for past few years no issues but in past few weeks all my requests are unsuccessful (successful on appeal). All journey are genuine. I have a gwr annual season ticket on a smart card so...

For those not familiar with this branch line, during off peak times trains run through between Marlow and Maidenhead hourly, reversing at Bourne End. During peak times the line is split into two, with separate trains running half hourly between Marlow & Bourne End and between Bourne End &...

Tomorrow 2 of us are travelling windsor & eton central to marlow. I have a season ticket Paddington to marlow so will buy a paper ticket windsor to slough (using season ticket for rest of journey) My travelling companion will need a single off peak ticket for the entire journey. Can I buy them a...

I know the intricacies about the layout / tokens and signal system at Bourne End have been discussed in the past. A fault occurred at Bourne End yesterday afternoon and has yet to be fixed, meaning no trains between Bourne End and Marlow

On my daily journey.i connect from main line to a branch line. The branch line journey is timetabled for 7 minutes but actually takes 6 minutes. On Friday I was delayed on the main line. My planned journey had me timetabled to arrive at 1736, but according to realtraintimes the train I was due...

The 2208 departure from Paddington to Didcot is scheduled to run on the main line to dolphin junction where it changes to relief line to didcot Last night it changed to relief line at West Drayton where it crawled behind an EL service to dolphin junction where it changed back to main line. It...

This morning the 0633 from maidenhead to Paddington (starting at Didcot) was showing on the screens at the station, the gwr app and real train times that it was going to depart from platform 2 (as it always does). One very loud commuter told everyone that today it will depart from platform 4 and...

The driver on my train this morning, apologised for the delay and said this is "due to a nationwide problem with the signaling... (something inaudible)"

Camden Station currently closed due to structural damage. Its nice coming from HB branch and to sail straight through kentist Town and Camden Town. What structural damage is there? At Tufnell Park the driver did get confused and announce that the next stop will be Warren Street (think he forgot...

For the past 3 days theres been an early morning revenue block on the ungated platforms at Paddington (looks like its aimed at the 0703 arrival from Bristol). Not sure how its fully enforced when the platforms are a permitted walk way between different parts of the station and the platforms...

Alongside the exit area to platforms 10 and 11 at Paddington there has been hoardings hiding building work for a number of years. I always assumed this was related to the Paddington Square / new bakerloo line entrance but now that's complete the hoardings are still there. It makes the exit area...

Is the above journey an option using contactless? The single fare finder on tfl website suggests it is and is charged at £6.20 off peak but national rail is giving me a fare of £18.45 off peak

I travel with GWR daily and always check their app to see if my journey will be disrupted. The app currently says "there is a good service across our network" but when I check on live train times I see that numerous Didcot stoppers are cancelled. Surely this isn't a good service. I've also...

Yesterday on a cross country service whilst sat in the platform at Reading the train manager did 3 announcements saying we have an unattended bag in coach F with a luggage tag on it, if your name is (what was on the tag) or if you have a bag in coach f please come down to the coach. Exiting at...

On the departures board at maidenhead Station today there is a delayed "charter train" that was scheduled to depart at 0908. The only thing I can find on rtt is a train to Exeter. Is it this? If so does anyone know what it was chartered for ?

The last 2 trains from maidenhead to marlow were cancelled today. I think they were cancelled before 10pm yesterday as they were not showing on rtt. But assuming they were cancelled on the day or this happens in the future, what should the railway do to get me home with my bicycle or what...

Just checking my journey home this evening and GWR app journey planner says that the Marlow branch is split on Saturday evenings with 30 minute frequency between maidenhead and bourne end and between bourne end and Marlow (as weekday peaks) Checking the GWR app live departures and...

The past 2 days theres been an RPI (not a guard) on the early morning services from Bourne end and yesterday there was a large revenue block (with security) at marlow Station This is highly unusual, is the marlow branch a hot spot for fare evasion?

I dont know the finer details of the issues Yesterday 1 of the lines leaving Paddington (don't know which) was out of action at Acton due to a defective track. This was all cleared and service back to normal by the evening peak. Today same issue has happened again Is this the same stretch of...