Recent content by iharding

Premium car park entrance also blocked at 1045 today, with two police vans parked up. No doubt helping with the maintenance ;) So not only can no one park, there's no legal access for private vehicles to reach the pick up/drop off point or short term waiting spaces. Working out a contingency...

mods note - split from here. Farnborough North crossing, and the Frimley Green crossing at the other end of the footpath, replacement is in planning: https://stuartblack.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Final-Farnborough-North-and-Hatches-Consultation-Presentation-1-.pdf

I've been following the discussion, but still don't understand what difference this easement made. Travelling Ash Vale to Farnborough Main or stations to the West via Woking requires doubling back between Brookwood and Woking, which isn't permitted. So even with this easement removed it still...

Probably an unintended consequence, but as they are a season presumably it's valid to split a journey over two flexi season tickets on separate smartcards with no requirement for the train to stop at the split point. This assumes it's possible to activate the second part of the journey at the...

I've not yet bought a season from Farnborough, having moved house three days after the first lockdown began, but did previously look up the price which I thought was almost exactly #4000. Maybe that was the price from before the January 2020 and I'm unfairly accusing SWR of two year's increases...

There must be some good reductions somewhere to make the average regulated fare increase 2.6%. Not Farnborough-Waterloo for sure, which will be my commute once the office opens again. That's gone up by 5.9%!

In this thread https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/annual-gold-card-to-get-discount-to-standard-peak-anytime-ticket.183384/ there is a discussion about carnets being available for tickets with different pricing per direction for normal return tickets. As a carnet allows unlimited travel between...

5.9% rise in a Farnborough-London Terminals season. Ouch. At least my employer is in no hurry to bring remote working to an end.

I was on the 1715 Waterloo-Fratton last night. I checked real time trains a few minutes after departure, and noticed it was already reported at Wimbledon, whereas we hadn't yet passed Clapham Junction. Don't know what happened, but I watched its phantom progress passing other stations until I...

I see the latest main line punctuality figures have dropped below the season ticket discount threshold. This is the first time since I switch to an annual season so I'm not sure how this works. When I renew in January, will I get a 5% discount because the rolling 12 month average dipped below...

Thank you. Glad I checked here before leaving for work.

Do you have a publicly accessible link for this please? SWT and NR websites still showing only the Woking-Surbiton message and advice to check before travelling, not to avoid it.

Arriving most mornings from Waterloo East, just before the cut off after which no ex-Charing Cross trains stop, I've noticed the up/down direction of the P8/9 escalators seems random. On a couple of occasions both escalators have been travelling in the same direction. Not sure if this is an...

From SWT alert email: "Due to emergency services dealing with two incidents between Surbiton & Woking and Wimbledon & Surbiton all lines are blocked. Train services running through these stations may be cancelled, delayed by up to 60 mins or revised. A person has been hit by a train between...

I've been sold a ticket to Farncombe when Farnborough was requested. Potential for either of the above to be confused with Farnham. The only reason I wasn't sold a ticket to Great Yarmouth when requesting Yarmouth Isle of Wight (not rail connected, but through tickets available via Lymington...