Recent content by arb

If the goal is to stop all suitcases on the escalators then there are better styles of barrier that could have been used, e.g. a normal ticket gateline barrier (not the wide aisle gates). ln my experience these typically close immediately after detecting a human passing through, meaning that...

Well, that's the point I'm trying to make. I consider my suitcase to be large, but nobody in this thread had actually defined "large". It is entirely open to interpretation. You could pick any two people in this thread who have been discussing whether something is banned/dangerous or not, and...

Not "luggage being banned", but "large/heavy luggage being banned", which is a phrase that is open to interpretation. I wan't going out of of my way. I needed to make the overall journey anyway, I needed to change at Paddington, and the escalators are on the natural route into/out of the...

Guilty as charged, I've opened doors during a slight delay to see if I can figure out what's happening. It doesn't mean I'm upset/angry/anxious/complaining/demanding immediate compensation. Just inquisitive.

The only rule I saw (well, heard) was an announcement not to take large (or maybe heavy, I forget which) items on the escalator, not an outright ban on all suitcases. Given that nothing in this thread has so far defined exactly what constitutes large or heavy, I thought that the width of my case...

For me, the issue isn't knowing how many seconds it is that the doors will be shut before some other specified time (after all, if I'm rushing, I'm not also trying to read a timetable in one hand whilst looking at the second hand of my watch on the other arm and trying to do mental arithmetic to...

I've been through Paddington Crossrail station four times (twice in each direction) in the last month, with what I consider to be my "large" wheely suitcase. It measures 65cm high x 46cm wide x 30cm deep. It stands upright on one escalator step just above/below me without overhanging the next...

What happens if the person walking alongside the train to reach a distant carriage is walking literally right next to the train, inside the yellow line? Does that prevent the doors from being locked and dispatch starting until the passenger either gets on the train, or moves outside the yellow...

It's not just terminal stations or those with limited platform space where the original advice is ridiculous. What about stations where as soon as you go through the barrier, you're predominantly outdoors, with minimal indoor waiting room space, but which have a large booking office or indoor...

When I arrived at Cambridge last night, Greater Anglia had organised separate taxi queues outside the station for Littleport and each station beyond (not Waterbeach/Ely since, as you said, GA/XC were still serving those stations). I don't think they'd have been organising taxis like that if a...

Maybe booking confirmations from the retail side of things, rather than fares databases, would give this info? For example I've just looked up a return journey I made in 2016 from Cambridge to Penzance where I paid approx £60 total using advance tickets, at 2 months notice, outward on a Friday...

That's interesting to hear. At my local stations, Cambridge and Ely, which are of course managed by Greater Anglia, not Great Northern, I've noticed that the new departure screens introduced over the last few years have exactly the same problem. They're much worse at dealing with "the train at...

This is something I've noticed. A mainstay of my long-distance rail travel over the last 10 to 15 years is Cambridge or Ely to either South Wales, Devon or Cornwall. The cost increase over the last few years is astronomical. Also not just the cost increase, but other niggles such as the...

It's now fully working for me (details in the thread linked to previously). Thanks for the initial pointers that it wasn't completely my fault!

Thanks, I can confirm that: 1) TrainSplit is offering me the discount again 2) Investigating further in BRFares, it does affect all tickets, not just Boundary Zone. 1740478765 And as an added bonus, investigating this had led to me discovering the existence of a cheaper ticket than the one I...