Recent content by cb00

If the price of a ticket is the same for travelling via different routes from A to B (and therefore using different TOCs), how do passengers know whether or not it's a permitted route? Is there a website which states routes? I found a previous thread but the link to ATOC's website doesn't work...

A pleasant and unexpected response from GWR after the original response claiming this was as intended. They accepted this was an error and that the easement will be updated to include the 09:15 departing WOS as was always the case. Thank you for the replies and encouragement

It was always the case that the 0815 and 0915 departures from Worcester Shrub Hill to London Paddington were discounted with a Network Railcard, using an easement. On the latest timetable, however, the 0915 contains no discount from Worcester Shrub Hill, yet from Pershore onwards the discount...

Thanks all for the interesting replies. It was often the case on a service departing PAD during a weekday evening (pre-hybrid working) that if there was standing room only, you'd only have to wait until Slough until seats became available. Makes a bit more sense as to why it was removed from the...

I used to travel to Heathrow by stopping at Slough, then (via the Elizabeth Line) via Hayes and Harlington to Heathrow. Now it seems GWR no longer stops at Slough. Just downloaded the GWR timetable and Slough is no longer listed. Not sure when or why this happened :s National Rail suggests I...

This is exactly the query I was going to post. Travelling Worcester - Paddington but all the usual tickets have been removed. Forcing it via Oxford (thanks to the posts above) shows a slightly pricier ticket which gives the Network Railcard discount. I'd use this ticket to travel via Birmingham...

It's an oddly persistent reality that planning office parties and pretending to care about your leaders' kids/pets/holidays actually seems to be weighted more heavily than those who do the heavy lifting. But this isn't the case everywhere, especially where leaders are switched on and aren't...

Reducing flexibility is not the way to attract people to the railways. There is nothing wrong with a paper ticket (whose battery can't run down/be stolen by the many street robbers in London nowadays) where the passenger has flexibility as to when they travel. Take the departure boards at...

They haven't thought this through... why would reducing the price of a single to 50% of a return, require the abolition of a return ticket? Why not reduce the single to 50% of the return AND keep the return option available, for the many rail travellers who use these tickets for the flexibility?

Thanks all, I did suspect the rail corporations would be sufficiently insulated, as if the compensation they get from the government for each strike day isn't enough.

Scenario: A passenger was supposed to travel on 3 Feb, but couldn't due to strikes, so travelled on 4th Feb instead. The train on 4 Feb ran on time. Yet the passenger was delayed by more than 2 hours from the intended travel on the strike day. The train journey in question can't be found in...

I live near the Cotswold Line and have a couple of times now found out belatedly about steam trains (the most recent being yesterday). There are crowds of people at stations and at various points where the line can be seen, but how do people find out about these? I visited the West Coast...

I'd defer to your sister's experience of the front lines. Those who are medically aware (as opposed to the characters in Whitehall/Downing St) are rightly remaining cautious. Strangely the same people who think they're too strong to be affected by covid are the same ones who are scared of...

Ridiculous decision, but if you paid for the railcard by card, file a claim with your credit card provider/bank. The cost to the taxpayer would have been zero. With mandatory agreement of TOCs (who are receiving £billions of our taxes at the moment) announce that all railcards are extended by 6...

What exactly is involved in prepping a train under the 36 hour/1500 mile interval?