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I'm not too surprised they've tightened up, although the extra revenue from someone buying such a ticket at an SWT station rather than their natural home station on the route would have been the seller's commission - how much would that be worth to SWT?

And in some circumstances you can leave a railway station without it being classed as a BoJ - for example, walking to another station to continue your journey on a permitted route, or for an overnight stay if you cannot complete your journey.

What's the CORE? Cross ... Rail .... ?

No, it wasn't - the all-longitudinal seating layout was introduced with the refurbishment in the 1990s. When the 1973 stock came into service (in 1975, despite the name!) there were the traditional two pairs of bay seating between the double doors of the driving motor cars, the same as in (from...

yes, the Ethels!

3. Where the ticket has been kept - next to something that interferes with the data on the magnetic stripe.

Yup, I'd second that - going back to when HSTs were introduced I did that, and also the driver gave me a pound note, asked me to take a photo of him posing by it, gave me his address for me to post a print of the picture to him (which I did!), then whisked me into the cab for a look around and...

I wonder if the ticket clerk at Earl's Court misheard, and thought the destination was 'Welling' in south east London, which is within the zones. I've had first hand experience of that verbal confusion, with a comic argument developing. However, it's zone 4 so there wouldn't be any need for...

I think that's an unnecessary, and gratuitously offensive, reply to the poster. Perhaps in your experience there is a problem with some children being in some pubs with some adults, but it's not fair or polite to say what you said to someone you don't know.

But it would be a direct flight so connections don't come into it. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- But if the bus/coach runs late or is cancelled then an Advance ticket from Stevenage becomes invalid.

It certainly is mph. Do a quick google and have a look on You Tube for the video.

Yes, lasted a few years before being converted back to standard.

Yes, more specifically the developers of Canary Wharf in 1991 offered a substantial amount towards the cost of the extension on the condition it ran via Waterloo for ready connection to the SW Division British Rail services - a lot of Canary Wharf's potential future workers would be living in...

In most of Scotland fitba is perfectly acceptable - language police can't tell people not to use regional dialect, as much as it offends their sensibilities, so I would give up if I were you!

They can't be used for passenger exit/entrance because the escalators are no longer operational, but they can be used to reverse trains in the event of a problem south of Green Park. Trains that reverse at Charing Cross are generally detrained at Green Park and pick up passengers from there...