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The latest version of the National Rail App is infuriating. There are loads of circumstances where you are now locked out from looking at journey details. It is any situation where the app decides it can’t offer you a ticket for that service. What on earth is going on. This is primarily an...

I am on a 390 and it is clear there is a problem with the refurb. Small in some ways but looks like a uniform issue and so large in that sense. The attached photos show the corners of the arm rests have already frayed. Pretty much every arm rest in the carriage I am in is affected. Obviously...

I am just on a class 373 Eurostar fondly recalling days when this train ran from Leeds to London. The quality of the look, feel and ride just feels miles ahead of anything else I have traveled on in the UK, as did the unrefurbished version when it ran as the White Rose service. Excluding HS1...

I don’t understand this project. If you want extra local capacity then why can’t you build a switch from the track half way down the long platform onto the track that has cleared the short platform to split the long platform in 2. They are saying it is for extra LNER services but there are...

Hi. I am wanting to travel london (Clapham Junction) to Frome (SWT) on Thursday then Frome to Bude on Friday, then returning Bude to Frome the following week and then Frome to London. I might not do the stop in Frome on the way back to London and might use the GWR rather than SWT route back...

The fastest journey from Southport to London on journey planner has always been via Wigan. Checking for the coming week all routes are showing via Liverpool. What’s happened I wonder. Engineering, too many delay repay/general unreliability from the northern shambles on the Southport line so...

I think that makes sense? So the largest number of the smallest micofleets by total number of units in each microfleet. Has any TOC got more microfleets that are as small as TfW’s microfleets. Does TfW maybe have the largest number of train types in one TOC full stop?

I see Northern have a flash sale on for £1 fares. Good to see they have worked out a way to reduce their delay repay bill.

The National Rail App seems to have developed a really annoying new feature. It locks out details of journeys and says ‘No fares available’. 1st, this is not true. It is an actual lie, because it is totally valid to buy a ticket for that train (or the return portion of a ticket you already...

Hi - I am currently trying get north from Oxford to Southport, amid various late running trains and cancellations, and the online ticket sellers are all refusing to allow me to buy me a ticket. I get there might not be seat reservations but I have never had it where you can’t actually buy a...

There are lots of predictions by forum members on the threads of this site. Many often seem to be common sense and turn out to be right. Predictions of problems with feast or famine on rolling stock procurement for instance. But…. Are there any predictions or points you have made where you are...

Media reports that France will follow Germany’s lead of making available an ultra-cheap transport pass, for €49 per month for non-TGV trains. Will/should we in the UK ever try such a thing and if not, why not...

Hi. I can’t find a thread on this. Does anybody know why the speed limit at South Croydon has not been fixed overnight? It was there 2 days ago and as it is on the TL routes, is infecting the rest of the network very easily. Bearing in mind how timetable sensitive this route is, I would have...

Hi. My sister is heading down with my niece for her first ever trip to London today and is at Meols Cop station awaiting the 9.10 to Wigan. The train info board is not showing the train at all even though national rail says it exists and that is the time train we have booked the ticket for...

When at City Thameslink I always notice how it is a u shape, with a gradient rising in either direction from the lowest point on the platform. Are there any other stations with a prominent ‘u’ like this?

What on earth are Chiltern playing at with the state of the gate lines at Marylebone and Moor Street? At Moor Street there are just not enough. No where near enough. It must be the worst station in the UK for the time it takes to get through. It is a terminus station and needs about double the...

I am on a train at city thameslink that is currently delayed by 15 mins because of a train at Blackfriars that is stuck because nobody can find a ‘relief driver’. They don’t swap drivers at Blackfriars in the middle of the evening peak as standard do they?

Moderator note: split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/the-gamechanger-solution-to-the-problem-of-leaves-on-the-line.246960/ An interesting point on the environmental front is that I learned recently that reeds soak up more carbon than the equivalent area of Amazon rain forest. I...

Farringdon Thameslink southbound has a 5mph on it today because of a broken rail. I am sure I recall other fairly recent broken rail incidents in the core. Is that right and if so, surely this is a bit odd considering the overall incidence of broken rails on the network?

The fares booking engines seem to be getting more bonkers by the day, as well as completely unusable because of the amount of disruption. What is this though? I have seen Advance fares prices ridiculously close to the flexible fare, which is blatantly out of order. Pricing at above the...