‘This is about your safety’
Crescendo for the campaign to keep UK rail ticket offices open.
| Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/this-is-about-your-safety
#TicketOffices #UKRail

@respros Just done it with Avanti -> tickets straight to Google Wallet (there was a link to do the same thing for Apple Wallet).

For outward journey last week, I made mistake of buying on Trainline - service fee AND no paperless ticket option. 4 tickets with seat reservations produced this much waste...
#Avanti #UKRail #ukrailway #tickets

Today is the last day to respond to the ticket office closure consultation. I'd advise starting now because it turns out you have to respond to every single train company separately and, where they operate in and out of London, to two different email addresses. #UKRail #TrainsTrainsTrains

If you want to register your objection to the proposed UK rail ticket office closures there is a very useful guide and template letter at @transportforall: https://www.transportforall.org.uk/campaign/ticket-office-closures/find-target/ and https://www.transportforall.org.uk/campaign/ticket-office-closures/template/ #rail #railways #UKRail #TicketOffice

#trainline charges 131 pounds for a trip that #gwr website charges 104 pounds for. #ukrail

Northern train conductor praised for spotting missing girls

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-65098368

#NorthernTrains #Railways #UKRail #MissingPersons #Runaways #BTP #BritishTransportPolice #Heroes

Great British Railways: Derby expected to win race for rail HQ

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-65018547

#Railways #UKRail #Derby

There was a 99% vote for #srike action (on a ballot turnout of 77%) by London Underground members of my #ASLEFunion.

Finn Brennan, full-time ASLEF District Organiser on the Underground, gave a very comprehensive interview on LBC earlier today.

Sadly, I don't have a transcript of the interview available, however, I am also sharing a link to the LBC article published today that summarises some of the points raised by Finn today.

#UKRail #ASLEF #LondonUnderground #TfL

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/tube-drivers-strike-march-15-aslef-union-announces/

Exciting plans to relink Bideford Tarka Line railway with rest of Devon

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/exciting-plans-relink-bideford-tarka-8154993

Wonderful if this goes ahead. So many areas of Devon & Cornwall completely cut off since their railways closed in the 1960s.

#Bideford #Devon #UK #Railways #ClosedRailways #Beeching #TarkaLine #UKRail

Trial of scrapping train return tickets extended

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64548794

#Railways #Rail #UKRail #RailFares #FarePricing #HiddenAgenda #RipOffBritain

Pricing will never be simple if it's based on where and when.

Do I smell a hidden agenda here, to ramp up the price of rail travel in the Uk still further by making the price of 2 single journeys more expensive than 1 return journey?

Rail travel in the UK is already one of the most expensive in the world, with trains overcrowded and dirty.

Devon and Cornwall's lost and abandoned railways

https://www.devonlive.com/news/history/devon-cornwalls-lost-abandoned-railways-8095476

#Devon #Cornwall #UKRail #ClosedRailways #Beeching

So many railways and stations closed nationally, cutting off their respective communities. A very sad period.

If left, you can bet you bottom Dollar that #Thatcher would have closed them.

A few have been reopened or are footpaths or #cycle routes, but it's not the same.

Given problems with so many cars on the roads today, a good number should never have been closed.

Devon railway line protected as flood scheme approved

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/devon-railway-line-protected-flood-8103632

#HeleAndBradninch #Devon #UK #UKRail #FloodScheme #Resilience #GreatWesternRailway #GWR

@danjenkins I had originally planned to travel today. I moved my outbound journey on the #Eurostar because of the UK rail strikes.

#FOSDEM #UKRail

I really want to like #GWR but a 5-car from #Paddington to #Oxford on a Saturday morning really isn’t a great idea. Especially when the seat reservations don’t work and no announcement about it #ukrail

HS2 may not run through to central London

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64421566

#UKRail #HS2 #WasteOfMoney #Farcical

The amount of time and money that has been pored into this scheme.

Costs are forever increasing; a lot of countryside and other areas destroyed forever; it still can't deliver.

Semaphore signals are alive and well in Herefordshire #ukrail

A warning for anybody travelling to #FOSDEM by rail from the UK in two weeks time. There are rail strikes planned for Wednesday 1st Feb and Friday 3rd Feb. Friday is the day most of us will be travelling.

The #Eurostar is running on both those days, but it might be difficult to get to London by rail.

One option is to take to the train to London on Thursday 2nd Feb, stay in a hotel overnight, then Eurostar to Brussels on Friday.

#RailStrikes #FOSDEM2023 #UKRail

Tom Haines-Doran, author of a study of the broken rail system, said, “The failures of privatisation are coming home to roost financially and in terms of the dysfunctionality of the system.”

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/dec/26/great-britain-rail-system-dubbed-broken-as-years-data-reveals-extent-of-disruption
#UKRail #PrivatisationFailure

Rail passenger hits out at #Avanti over £589 ticket ‘masterclass in poor service’ - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/11/rail-passenger-avanti-west-coast-train-ticket-brighton-bangor
#Privatisation #UKRail

https://www.londonnorthwesternrailway.co.uk/travel-information/service-disruptions/marston-vale-line-buses-replace-trains-until-further-notice

A sad indictment of the state of rail services in the UK at the moment.

Granted, the Marston Vale line is a minor line but the status of the line shouldn't have been allowed to depend on the financial health of a single small train manufacturer...

#UKRail #Trains #Railways