Recent content by didcotdean

Legally they may in the same way that they can surcharge the processing cost of UK commercial cards, or for that matter cash if they want to. It doesn't seem to have happened because it is messy to do as it has to be disclosed up front before payment.

The UK Payment Systems Regulator does not believe that there is any additional genuinely incurred cost for a cross border payment UK-EEA now than before Brexit. Hence they have been running a series of consultants on capping charges on EEA cards used in the UK to the same level as UK cards...

Another possible account is the "non resident with passport" one offered by Banco Santander: https://www.bancosantander.es/en/particulares/cuentas-bancarias/cuenta-online-con-pasaporte/ If you don't have an address in Spain you can't get a physical card but the virtual one should be able to be...

He called it his "spiritual vagrancy". Gives it as his reason why he never got an an academic appointment at at Oxford despite years of applying. I think there was probably another reason.

Joad wrote in a book in 1937 (Testament of Joad) that: "I cheat the railway company whenever I can, returning on the next day with a cheap day return ticket, or alleging when I arrive ticketless at a station that I entered the train nearer to it than was in fact the case." So maybe it was...

In some areas bus partnerships do much of the integrated fare side of things, such as inter-operable daily & weekly passes & periodic capping of contactless fares. Also these can operate out the strict area but into neighbouring ones where the bus terminates. Of course these are bus only, and...

During the daytime at least Leicester has the free Hop! bus circling the centre including the rail station & close to both bus stations.

Especially difficult since they were also supposed to be relatively close to the coast.

The 1961 film adaptation starts with an announcement for the train which is said to call at Ealing Broadway, Hanwell, Hayes, West Drayton, Langley, Taplow, Milchester & Brackhampton. Milchester had a hospital and a university so could be Reading but there is apparently a lot of argument over how...

After this round, for Didcot to Paddington there is only 10p difference between the off-peak day return and off-peak return.

Indeed (Bicester has been better at times). I pointed this all out to senior management at GWR a few years ago but I wasn't really surprised it wasn't acted on.

Look at these two off peak day returns: Reading to High Wycombe: £34.30 (route via Oxford) Didcot to High Wycombe: £44.70 (route not via London) The first is set by Crosscountry, the second by GWR. There is also available an any permitted fare for Didcot to High Wycombe ... which is £44.70.

The 09:04 Didcot Parkway to Reading (and Paddington) has only been retimed to become an off-peak train for Reading from this Monday, and according to Realtime Trains it reverts to its usual time of 08:57 again from Friday. I guess the 'peak' announcements may have just been carrying on what...

This is TfLs statement: "We're currently unable to process payments on the Oyster & contactless app. You can still make payments on this website and in stations." Not had cause to try myself yet.

Topping up Oyster online via the app is not possible at the moment as that facility has been withdrawn as a consequence of the cyber attack on TfL. This could be a mitigating circumstance to raise, although your recent change of debit card makes it less clear.