#ukrail — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ukrail, aggregated by home.social.
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Avanti are running one direct train per hour to Manchester today (whether that’s normal Sunday service or special Bank Holiday shenanigans, I don’t know, nor do I care) - do we dare hope that WCML will be next on the list for being taken back into public ownership?
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Avanti are running one direct train per hour to Manchester today (whether that’s normal Sunday service or special Bank Holiday shenanigans, I don’t know, nor do I care) - do we dare hope that WCML will be next on the list for being taken back into public ownership?
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Avanti are running one direct train per hour to Manchester today (whether that’s normal Sunday service or special Bank Holiday shenanigans, I don’t know, nor do I care) - do we dare hope that WCML will be next on the list for being taken back into public ownership?
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Avanti are running one direct train per hour to Manchester today (whether that’s normal Sunday service or special Bank Holiday shenanigans, I don’t know, nor do I care) - do we dare hope that WCML will be next on the list for being taken back into public ownership?
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Government Resets HS2: Costs Surge to £102.7bn
The UK government confirms the HS2 rail project will cost £102.7 billion. Learn how this reset affects train speeds, construction timelines, and taxpayers.
#hs2, #ukrail, #transportnews, #infrastructure, #ukgovernment
https://newsletter.tf/hs2-rail-project-cost-increase-may-2026/
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The HS2 project budget has reached £102.7 billion, which is a massive increase from original estimates. New management is now in charge to try and finish the work by 2039.
#hs2, #ukrail, #transportnews, #infrastructure, #ukgovernment
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Happy that this might actually be finished soon…
> Delayed Great British Railways’ first station to open at Cambridge South in June
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I'm disappointed to see that National Rail Inquiries - that is, the 'official' railway ticket retailer in the UK, operated by the Rail Delivery Group - has started adding automatic redirects to Booking.com when you search for a itinerary. My complaint isn't so much about their use of this hotel reservations intermediary in particular; I'm a customer myself and they're actually somewhat reasonable to customers (their anti-competitive business practices notwithstanding). This is why I'm not happy:
- silently redirecting users to other sites and opening extra tabs is confusing to all but the most tech-savvy users
- there's no option for users to turn this off for good
- it's already a slow and resource-heavy website, and yet is exactly the thing which many users may be using in a hurry and on patchy mobile connections - now, it wants to open up another tab containing loads of images on every query
- this change further entrenches an existing near-monopoly, when this could have been a way of supporting independent hotels and keeping public money in the UK economy
My suggestion is to use TrainSplit instead, who actually know how to make a user-friendly website (I am not affiliated with them nor am I paid for saying this).
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Excited train related noises
#Aurora #810012 #UKRail #EastMidlandsRailway
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Excited train related noises
#Aurora #810012 #UKRail #EastMidlandsRailway
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Excited train related noises
#Aurora #810012 #UKRail #EastMidlandsRailway
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Excited train related noises
#Aurora #810012 #UKRail #EastMidlandsRailway
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Excited train related noises
#Aurora #810012 #UKRail #EastMidlandsRailway
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I read this morning that Glasgow Central station is closed after a battery fire yesterday caused a neighbouring building to collapse. Some trains will run through the station but none will stop there.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/09/glasgow-central-station-closed-fire
Are any of my fellow Fedizens affected by this? "Very limited replacement transport" is never a phrase anyone wants to hear...
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A question for #UKRail buffs! Can you claim Delay Repay for a delay you would have experienced due to unplanned disruption, but successfully avoided due to arranging alternative travel at your own expense?
Some context for my situation: I'm looking into making a Delay Repay claim for a journey I took from BNP to PAD via EXD on the 28th of January. I had a Super Off-Peak Return ticket from BNP to LON.
Due to Storm Chandra, all the trains were cancelled between BNP and EXD. There weren't any dedicated rail replacement buses during the day, but GWR said that passengers could use their railway ticket to travel to EXD on the 5B bus instead. After catching the next available train there, I would have arrived in London at 17:07 with this arrangement, substantially later than the normal 15:30 arrival for my departure time.
Because I was in a bit of a hurry, I booked a National Express coach from BNP to TAU instead, and therefore kept up with my planned itinerary, with a total delay of just 12 minutes coming into London (15:42).
So my question: can I claim Delay Repay for the 90 minutes I would have been delayed, had I taken the recommended bus route rather than an alternative coach at my own expense? If not, is there any other form of compensation for this kind of disruption? I've looked at the RailUK Forums but my case seems a bit different from other threads about this, because I did use my ticket - just not for the whole route.
Oh, and I need to know by the end of today because I've left it until the last minute 😅 Thanks in advance!!
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I have just booked a rail journey of 160 miles. Admittedly I have a railcard but I paid just £21 for a single.
Something quite dramatic has happened on UK railways, with very little fanfare.
It is so cheap that it wouldn't be a disaster if I decided not to go. Though I can get a partial refund, as long as I don't activate the ticket.
Seat bookings are included.
Train travel deserves to be used much more for leisure.
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An email from Northern Rail:
We know Huddersfield station is a key part of your regular journeys.
I think I might have gone there once or twice, shortly before the start of the pandemic. Haven't even taken a train through there in that long.
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I've created a hex cartogram showing the percentage of rail cancellations by UK Parliamentary constituency https://constituencies.open-innovations.org/themes/transport/rail-cancellations/
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I'm not-even-secretly hoping for some untangling of the mess that is #ukrail as the operators come back into public ownership.
Delayed on one train? Get the next one with the national branding. Express? Stopping? Doesn't matter, just the next one.
Ticket only valid for one operator? Kill that with fire (unless it's an Open Access operator like GC or Lumo obviously).
It'd take a lot of stress out of travelling by rail... I'll even tolerate the silly "great British railways" Branding(tm)...
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As a #UKRail commuter, I felt totally punched in the face, belly and knees😡😡😡
"Raising rail fares above inflation and hiking the cost of railcards is a kick in the teeth for people who rely on public transport, especially those on low income. Doing this at the same time as keeping fuel duty frozen sends entirely the wrong message. To tackle air pollution, congestion and climate change, we need to make public transport the attractive, affordable choice.”
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/oct/30/rail-fares-in-england-set-by-government-to-rise-by-inflation-busting-46-in-2025?utm_source=press.coop -
Very annoying issue on Class 800 trains - when the train is accelerating using the electric motor, my hearing aids produce a rapid pulsing squeal. If I take them out, there's zero sound for everyone else - it is EM induction from the motors producing it directly in the hearing aids.
To put the sound on a scale - when it can be heard, it drowns out all other sound.
So, I'm guessing the trains and the motors don't have great EM shielding.
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So which iPhone do you think is my old one and which is my wife’s? This is a lottery where I don't like my chances.
#UserInterfaceFailures
#user_experience_design
#UKRail
#NetworkRail
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So which iPhone do you think is my old one and which is my wife’s? This is a lottery where I don't like my chances.
#UserInterfaceFailures
#user_experience_design
#UKRail
#NetworkRail
#ElectronicRailcard -
So which iPhone do you think is my old one and which is my wife’s? This is a lottery where I don't like my chances.
#UserInterfaceFailures
#user_experience_design
#UKRail
#NetworkRail
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Class 455 no 455868 looking splendid in BR classic Blue & Grey at Vauxhall today. The sun has finally come out! #rail #railway #UKRail #photography #RailPhotography
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Class 455 no 455868 looking splendid in BR classic Blue & Grey at Vauxhall today. The sun has finally come out! #rail #railway #UKRail #photography #RailPhotography
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Class 455 no 455868 looking splendid in BR classic Blue & Grey at Vauxhall today. The sun has finally come out! #rail #railway #UKRail #photography #RailPhotography
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Class 455 no 455868 looking splendid in BR classic Blue & Grey at Vauxhall today. The sun has finally come out! #rail #railway #UKRail #photography #RailPhotography
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Class 455 no 455868 looking splendid in BR classic Blue & Grey at Vauxhall today. The sun has finally come out! #rail #railway #UKRail #photography #RailPhotography
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Why is the microphone used by the train manager so bad on the Class 800 GWR train?
It isn't the speakers. The automated announcements are crystal clear. But as soon as a real person talks, it's like they're underwater and sucking a gobstopper.
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A man extracting a tree from the front of the train
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‘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 -
‘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 -
‘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 -
‘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
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On my way back to London, functioning broadband and my comfortable bed.
#rail #railtravel #LNER #firstclass #upgrade #BikeByTrain #UKRail #nationalised #PubliclyOwned
