Recent content by Bill Carson

If you think this is normal behavior then good for you. It must cost them a fair bit of money over the week / month / year printing these reservation tickets as well. To me, the money grabbers are up to something and it isn't for the passengers benefit that's for sure. I posted this on here...

Erm, I walk through all of the carriages and this is what I see - its hardly down to a few people missing their connections! A load of these empty seats are from where the services start as well. Why, even on a 1925 service on a saturday evening to Paddington the same thing is evident? They are...

Yes, I accept that some passengers will purchase 'anytime' tickets but I don't accept that these account for the hundreds of empty seats on late morning and lunchtime services. Also, the majority of regular folk wouldn't pay extra for 'anytime' tickets as the costs are already eye-watering...

I just joined this forum today so apologies if this has been discussed previously. I'm a regular FGW traveller between Paddington & South Wales and I suspect that they (FGW) are playing a numbers game with their ticket pricing and availabilty. When I recently travelled on the 1225 from...