Recent content by ChewChewTrain

As I said elsewhere, I am assuming. I could be wrong. 1735590582 Thanks. Of course the trains on that line are so frequent that I don’t think I could narrow it down to one service. But I can give them maybe a 5-minute window, and I remember which platform it departed from.

This evening, I was in the last carriage of a northbound Victoria Line service, and was right at the back of the carriage. Within a minute or two of the journey’s start, I thought I could smell weed. Not uncommon in London these days, of course, even on the Tube (at least residually on...

It doesn’t matter who bought the ticket for you; it was your responsibility to ensure it was the correct one. I’m not sure where your boss got the idea you have a Railcard (or indeed why they would have selected the 16-25 Railcard in particular), but I don’t suppose it makes much difference at...

But then why bother procuring the 16-25 Railcard at all?

Out of curiosity, can I ask why, specifically, you chose to buy a 16-25 Railcard and then say you had a 16-17 one? This is something we’ve seen again and again here, yet the consequences are exactly the same as if you had no Railcard at all. Is there some advice going round somewhere that one is...

Remember that if a court case somehow goes ahead without your knowledge, then (as long as you were genuinely unaware) you can get a conviction “unwound” by making a statutory declaration. So I agree with others that it’s best to just sit tight and not worry about the matter for now.

Not that this is really helpful to the OP at this stage, but doesn’t one need a valid Penalty Fare reference number in order to file an appeal? Shouldn’t the fact that the OP didn’t possess one have stopped the appeal being accepted, thus (with any luck) tipping them off that they weren’t given...

A heartwarming tale there. Those new solid wide gates definitely look like they’re not to be trifled with. Indeed, I’ve not seen anyone push through at Clapham Common since its gate was “f**king upgraded”, in stark contrast to before.

I’d love to see some footage of them in action. Zooming in, of course, on the passenger’s face at the precise moment when they receive the “good news” that their phone can be charged there and then… 1709798751 While I’m not necessarily disagreeing with you, I will just say that similar logic...

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/nearly-20000-people-prosecuted-for-fare-evasion-on-londons-transport-70089/ Further down, the article mentions this case: This bears a remarkable similarity to a matter for which our help was recently sought...

Can anyone please tell me what kind of train this was and why it ran? https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U92053/2024-02-21/detailed Furthermore, is there any publicly available information I could have looked up about this myself without bothering the good people of RailForums...

The attached was seen at Reading (P12/13) just now. I’m just saying: it doesn’t exactly inspire confidence. EDIT: I see someone has appended a description of the images to my title. I apologise for not doing so in the first place in accordance with the accessibility rules.

I’d be interested to see such a timetable. I knew HSTs had served those stations in the peaks for a few years, but thought the IETs that replaced them never did*, the new 377s having solved the peak-time capacity issues there were with the Turbos. — * with the possible exception of the weird...

On the way back, I saw a chap who just sat at the back of the carriage, not interacting with passengers, and whose only job seemed to be stepping out and dispatching at stations. I was curious about what his “normal” job was; I thought maybe platform dispatch (although he wasn’t wearing a hi-vis...

I checked late last night and it definitely said intermediate stations between RDG and DID would only be served by road transport (oh, the horror) all day today. Clearly, last night’s repairs went a lot better than anticipated. Still, I quite enjoyed getting an IET to and from Reading for once...