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    Glasgow to Tilbury : which route onwards from Euston would involve minimal walking?

    Looking for a piece of advice please. A relative is travelling from Glasgow to Tilbury, which means crossing London. He can’t walk terribly far and will have luggage. His plan is walk the short distance from Euston to Euston Square, then catch the Hammersmith & City line to West Ham and change...
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    Saphos Trains Ayr-Scarborough 27 May 23

    Saphos trains running a tour from Ayr to Scarborough today hauled by 47712 & 47593 Does anyone know why it was delayed for 80 minutes in Kilmarnock? https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U55320/2023-05-27/detailed#allox_id=0
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    Glasgow Bridge Strike - 20 May 23

    (Couldn't see this posted elsewhere - apologies if it has) Looks like a nasty bridge strike in Glasgow with 10 bus passengers taken to hospital. Trains between Glasgow and Paisley (both Gilmour Street and Canal) were suspended for a few hours...
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    Ticket print order could be more customer friendly

    I bought return tickets for 3 of us onboard EMR this morning (I don't know the name of portable ticket system they use) and the resulting long string of card got me thinking: The tickets are printed receipt first, then each return in sequence, i.e. receipt, out, return, out, return, out, return...
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    Ticket route validity in the event of missing a connection

    I'm traveling on a "AWC & connections" advance single from Kirkconnel (between Kilmarnock & Dumfries) to Nottingham tomorrow. I have now realised that my "published" itinerary has a short (but obviously over the minimum) connection at Crewe onto 1208 EMR to Derby (then XC to Nottingham), with...
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    Trivia: Services calling twice at the same station

    This thread got me thinking: which passenger services call at the same station more than once, excluding services which circle back to where they came (e.g. Fife Circle, Dartford loop, Wirral lines)? The only current one I can think of is Far North with Georgemas Junction. Back in the 90s...
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    Camping by the Llanberis Lake Railway

    Apologies if this has already been posted elsewhere. https://nation.cymru/news/concern-after-campers-pitch-tent-next-to-railway-tracks-in-snowdonia/
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    Glasgow Airport through fares

    Does anyone know what has happened to through fares to/from Glasgow Airport via Paisley Gilmour Street? Journey planners aren't listing times or fares and brfares is showing no fares from my local Ayrshire station.
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    Delay Repay & Open Access Operators

    Hypothetical query here. Does Delay Repay apply to Open Access Operators or just TOCs? If a journey covered both OA & TOC, would Delay Repay apply, in the same way it does for connections across TOCs? This is a hypothetical question, rather than something that has happened to me, however...

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