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Journey Planners |
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National Rail Enquiries for mainland UK train enquiries. Run by National Rail Enquiries (Association of Train Operating Companies. Includes details of engineering work and live train information |
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Public transport information (bus, rail, foot) for the Great Britain (does not include Northern Ireland). Much improved interface - |
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The Transport for London journey planner - |
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The journey planner for rail and bus in Northern Ireland |
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Provides journey planning, timetable and travel information from all licensed public transport providers across Ireland. |
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Provides a rail journey planner for most of Europe (except Ireland) as well as local buses in Germany. Also allows purchase of tickets, include print at home tickets, for journeys in Germany and to/from Germany. In English. Note does not always take into account UK engineering works (so double check on National Rail, especially for weekend travel). In English |
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Swiss Journey Planner. SBB’s (Swiss Federal Railways) superb journey planner for all public transport in Switzerland. Also allows purchase of tickets including print at home tickets. In English. |
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Provides live real time running information for the full Great British railway network. Also provides train running numbers (headcodes), passing times, public and working timetable times. |
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As well as train running information also provides real time maps of the Network Rail’s network showing trains stepping between signal berths as well as live signal aspects where S Class data is available. If you click on a train on the map provides public, working timetable and actual times for that train. Recommended. |
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Swiss real time train running information - |
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Showing London Underground live train positions and their estimated arrival time at the next station |
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Other Timetable Information |
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Network Rail’s working timetables,showing all movements on the rail network including freight trains, empty trains and those coming in and out of depots including passing times. |
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Listing regular passenger trains over obscure rail routes in the British Isles |
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Barry Doe’s website listing all bus and rail operators in the UK as well as directory of bus timetables and a map of the routes served by National Rail Passenger Operators. Note that you have to click list of sponsors and then scroll down to get to the information. |
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UK Rail Industry Websites |
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Authority responsible for the United Kingdom's railway network. Information and news about the network. |
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The website of Network Rail's Rail Innovation and Development Centres (RIDC) at Melton and Tuxford |
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Responsible for the production of Railway Group Standards, including the Rule Book and numerous research studies. For the rule book - |
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The Office of Rail & Road (ORR) is a statutory board which is the combined economic and safety regulatory authority for Great Britain's railway network. Reports on Network Rail Performance |
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The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) is the independent railway accident investigation organisation for the UK. Accident investigation reports are available to view on the website. |
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The Rail Delivery Group (RDG) represents all National Rail passenger and freight operators, as well as Network Rail and HS2. |
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The Rail Staff Travel section of the RDG website, which includes information on how to use rail staff travel facilities for active and retired employees of the rail industry. |
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Ticketing |
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A handy guide from National Rail with 18 tips on how to save money on National Rail tickets, including use of a variety of railcards which typically save 34% on tickets over a year. |
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This website works out if splitting train tickers reduces the overall cost of a journey. Some quite substantial savings are shown for some journeys, but make sure you check the conditions of each ticket carefully. NB To use split ticketing, accept when using a season or rover icket, the train must be timetabled to stop at the station where you ‘transfer’ from one ticket to the next. |
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Other Items of Interest |
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Railway Codes |
A website listing assorted railway codes such as ELRs and mileages, TIPLOC and STANOX codes, and much more. |
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For those interested in all aspects of London's underground railways - |
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As well as a number of pictures of BLS / L&CI railtours operating in the south west over the last few years a very comprehensive record of the past and current railway in Cornwall and Devon is on their website. |
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An unofficial web site for professional railway people working for London Underground and for those interested in the London Underground railway system. |
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A guide to how to be come a train driver, including an overview of the job and entry requirements |
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