Recent content by globetrotter

Thanks for all the work in creating and maintaining what is a fantastic resourse for any one interested in trains, railways and travel.

I think one of the points about continuing to have, and using, a travelcard is that before you think about your journey or even start it, you can know exactly what the cost is going to be and that cost does not change if your travel plans within the zones change after arrival. If you live...

Yes, 2005 not 2006.

I remember being surprised when a slam door train turned up on the Seaford branch, instead of the 377 that I was expecting. That would have been, I think, at the earliest some time in 2006.

Reading all this, it seems to me to be a valid question to ask if all these operator-controlled ticket machines with their different programming and interfaces work in the public interest? What might be better is a ONE standardised new machine required to be used across the country by all...

I'll offer a recent experience in Spain, to alert people to the dangers of removing "Break of Journey". Having travelled in France on local trains, stopping off here and there (on the same day), I then purchased a ticket from Port Bou to Barcelona, thinking that the same would apply in Spain...

The Southern app has an option to add PlusBus, where applicable.

If I go to the Southern site and search for a single ticket from Feltham to Surbiton next Tuesday, train leaving after 10 AM and use Advanced Search to indicate via Clapham Junction, curiously it offers me only two trains in the evening, both at £3.90 (fare is "Not via London"). If I can go...

A few points I'd like to offer, which I don't see examined in this thread : Each rail operator is on a government contract, the terms of which are hidden from the public and, presumably, RDG. The contracts all expire on different dates. It's easy to adjust fares, the number of trains and...

It was "Johnnycache" https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/southern-passengers-are-actually-paying-less-for-their-tickets-since-privatisation.92276/#post-1615765

BAA have a monopoly and charge accordingly. What I do is take a 490 bus to Feltham, then purchase there an off-peak one month return. It's one of those journeys that gets better as you go out of London. The 490 from T4/5 is the worst part (or a 285 from T1/2/3), but after talking nicely to...

I would have thought that an off peak return ticket Brighton to New Brighton, valid for travel via Princes Risborough, plus a separate side trip to AND from Aylesbury from Princes Risborough (if there are suitable connections), could be the answer.

The return travel restrictions on BRFares as they applied to the OP's situation, wishing to return PM from London to Woking are identical to and use the exact same wording as National Rail : Return Travel [Not valid on trains arriving: London Terminals: 09:31 – 11:59 - irrelevant here, as OP...

Yes, a good point RJ.

Yes Loco2 is a potentially excellent way to book tickets. I hope that the bewildering variety of cheap, advance and other discounted fares can be taken into account. What might be useful for Loco2 is to look at google.com/flights and choose a faraway destination not serviced by direct...