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About a year ago I travelled from Liverpool to Chester via Runcorn on a Transport for Wales service. My (very possibly faulty) memory tells me that the automated PA announcements were entirely in Welsh. That is unlikely and I suppose they were made in both languages, although I think the Welsh...

Digression from the Mersyerail 777 thread: Like everywhere I suppose they are a mixed bag. At platform level the city centre stations are fine (apart from the drip buckets at Liverpool Central.) At street level they are innocuous apart from Moorields which is a disgrace. A few have had fairly...

Today is the feast day of St Boniface, or Wynfrith, who was born in Devon about 675 AD, went as a missionary to what is now Germany, and was murdered in 754. I remember that, 1200 years later, the only train serving the remote market town of Hawes in North Yorkshire, which ran a return trip...

I thought my experience today might be of interest. I am currently in Genova, Italy, and took a trip just along the coast to the nearby town of Camogli. Only €3.80 each way on frequent local trains. But I bought my ticket at a machine in Brignole station;: it offered ' Andata e ritorno' which...

[Apologies if this is the wrong sub-forum but I couldn't see a more appropriate place to start/continue a discussion on this. Please move if necessary.] From the Guardian today...

Yesterday I found myself with a few minutes to spare in the middle of Gateacre village, in south-east Liverpool. Reading a local history display board, it appears that this ancient settlement, which long predated the city of Liverpool, originally consisted of a crossroads with a few scattered...

On the London Travelcard thread, Bletchleyite said: 'Merseyrail abolished Railcards for "internal" use by replacing their off peak day singles/returns with day tickets, and almost nobody complained. I don't agree with it (they could have discounted the day tickets) but it hasn't been...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/leeds-central-viaduct.249681/ One in Liverpool that could be similarly treated is the approach viaduct to the former Exchange station.

This has not escalated to an actual dispute yet but is extremely frustrating. On 12 August my wife and I were returning from York to Liverpool with the return portion of an Off-peak return. We expected to catch the 12.49 Transpennine Express. This was cancelled at short notice: we were advised...

I've just booked two off-peak returns from Liverpool to York, outward journey tomorrow 09/08/22. I was expecting to be offered e-tickets but the only option on the website was 'collect from station'. As it happens I shall be at Lime Street this afternoon, so this is no real inconvenience, but it...

The Crossrail discussions have drawn attention to this, but it isn't really a matter for any of those threads. It seems to be asserted that Cross/Liz/Purp is a different sort of animal from Thameslink, as well as from London Overground and Underground. To my mind however Thameslink and...

I've twice recently bought advance tickets from the Avanti app on my iPhone. The confirmatory email includes the necessary information about train times and seat reservations, but the ticket when downloaded to the Apple wallet lacks that information. Presumably it is visible on the QR code...

MtoGo seems to have gone except in a very few places.

I've booked tickets Liverpool L St to London Euston for Friday 6 May. The Avanti website and app says it is possible to change these tickets to a different time and day (even though they are Advance singles), and I wanted to rebook for Saturday 7th. Searching for train times on both Avanti and...

I don't do twitter but came across this the other day. https://twitter.com/chittimarco/status/1496871259237457925?s=21 It appears the city is getting 6km of Metro including eight stations for the price of Headbolt Lane station in Merseyside. Genova is a particularly difficult place to build a...

I've always avoided Trainline because they charge a booking fee. As far as I understood, all booking sites are linked to the same database and hence the same fares should be available on every one. However, my daughter is planning a trip from Liverpool to London in a couple of weeks, and the...

Are there many examples of standard gauge lines in Great Britain which are totally disconnected from the main network? The one which springs to mind is the Island Line for obvious reasons. Is there a theoretical possibility of a standard gauge vehicle* travelling every inch of track without...

That comment implies that local authority boundaries are [a] set in stone, and reflect the reality of people's perception and travel patterns. There is a strong argument for West Lancs joining the Liverpool City Region: of the two main centres of population, Ormskirk is to a large extent a...

As an overprivileged senior citizen I should say I have no need of such a thing. But I'm enquiring for the sake of family members as well as general curiosity. It looks as if the Walrus card, launched a few years ago as Liverpool's answer to the Oyster, has been edged aside in favour of...

I recently came across the attached in a collection of old family photographs. I wonder if this house (which I guess is a stationmaster's or similar) still exists and if so where it is? I have a very vague and very probably false memory that a very distant relation once worked for the Midland...