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...
Realization that if I don’t file my delay repay claim or advance ticket refund right away I simply won’t do it. Realization comes as it’s too late for my travels.
Third party ticket sellers should be able to do (and obliged to file) automatic delay repays on your behalf, regardless of operator. #ukRail
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!!
The Railways Bill will be going through Parliament in the next two days.
Email your MP today about tomorrow's votes:
A question for UK rail enthusiasts. Everywhere I go by train, I see lots of old bits of stuff lying around by the tracks. Old rails, wires, random bits of metal, etc.
I assume that this is mostly stuff which is left-over after maintenance. But there doesn't seem to be a culture of clearing away all this stuff.
Is there a reason for this?
When travelling by road, you might see all sorts of 'rubbish', but you don't typically see lots of piles of asphalt etc. [Yes, occasionally, and yes, lost traffic cones.]
Once again, TransPennine's booking site amazes me with it's shonkiness.
I've used it quite a bit over the last few months, and there were quirks, but I just ignored them as I wanted to buy train tickets.
This morning I didn't ignore them.
This morning I tried to purchase a simple ticket from York to Leeds a couple of weeks in the future.
After an hour and a half of frustration, I managed it.
They have at least two different search engines, neither of which are consistent in respecting the "Leave At / Arrive By" option selected.
One of them refused to return dates for the day of travel!
I filled in the website's complaint feedback form, and had to run my text through sed to remove all the "special characters" from my description of the fault.
Special characters like, commas and quotes.
FFS
Internet Wonderousness!
Hidden in this site, https://www.bukitlawang.com
(a site for visitors to North Sumatra, Indonesia)
is this little page, https://www.bukitlawang.com/routes/
which tells you the distance in miles between two UK rail stations of your choosing!
I'd planned a day out today using last week's #NorthernRail sale to celebrate #Rail200: up the Settle & Carlisle, across to Newcastle, then back down the East Coast to home. But my #CrossCountry train to get to the start was cancelled and I couldn't make it.
Northern refused to change my tickets because their train was on time. Said I had to buy new ones at full price (with the sale finished, that's ~£60 instead of £4).
Conversely, #LNER refunded me the full £23 with no problems.
For all you tired, annoyed commuters in particular, as well as train travellers in general - Jack Murphy has written something that compiles a daily leaderboard of train delays throughout the UK.
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tetchy af
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