Recent content by laphroaig

Thanks for the advice, I see that Brookwood is the relevant place as that's where the Farnham line joins the mainline, cheers.

Hello, midweek next week I will be visiting a friend in Farnham so have checked and the best fare from my local station, South Kenton, seems to be a £13 with Network Card minimum fare via Clapham Junction Off Peak Day Return. It will now be more convenient to meet in Fleet and then walk to...

I was looking to book travel from Norwich to Liverpool Street for a midweek morning early December and as usual there are plenty of £9 advance singles available. As I will have a few hours spare that morning I thought I might try to catch one of the loco-hauled services for a quick trip out to...

My local station, South Kenton on the Watford - Euston local line, has never had TOD collection facilities, in fact the nearest collection point on the line has always been, rather inconveniently, Watford Junction or Euston. Today however I booked some online tickets for a journey commencing...

Excellent, thanks for confirming that. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- Thanks, yes, I suspected there would be some rule preventing me from doing that, will use oyster to get back from Euston.

Thanks to previous kind advice on here I have in the past used a London to Bedford Off Peak Day Return when travelling from Harrow & Wealdstone (starting short) via Bletchley as this is cheaper than the HRW - BDM equivalent ticket. Searching for travel on Saturday I found a remarkably good...

Stratford? Really?? I'd be fascinated to learn what route it took!

Thank you all kindly for the replies, seems I can be fairly flexible, I won't use the ticket to track-bash all day or anything but maybe I'll stop off just once, perhaps in Tilburg. It sounds, from what several of you write, as though I should get to Maastricht fairly early anyway to make the...

I've just booked this for next month on the overnight sailing to Hoek, my ticket just says 'to any dutch station' on the specific date. Stena's website describe it as an 'open' ticket. I will be aiming for Maastricht but would quite like to stop off at one or two places en route for a look...

On Saturday I needed a single to Reading with Network Card discount, had a look online before travel to see prices from various local stations which I could cycle to and decided on the, clearly available on the system, £9.50 off peak day single from Greenford, which was the same price as Ealing...

WCX for Wembley Stadium, been a good few years since it was called Wembley Complex.

I have to admit, personally I would love it if this were true, there's nothing worse than being confronted with a sea of reservation labels when trying to find a decent seat. Well, I can dream, no way this would happen, would be great for people like me who can move quickly / know which bit of...

Well I feel compelled to chip in on this topic! Alas my namesake distillery and all its fine neighbours on Islay are a very long way from a railway station, Ardrossan Harbour maybe the closest (unless you count NI Railways) as the crow flies, and that's a good 50 miles away. Not the easiest...

So I took my first journey today on the refurbished loco-hauled stock from Moor St to Marylebone, (£6 advance booked a week ago, bargain!) now I'm of a certain age and remember these carriages when new in the 1970s so I just wanted to say what a lovely job they've done of modernising them...

The TfL single fare finder is the best place to find out; http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/tickets/faresandtickets/farefinder/current/Default.aspx The first fare that comes up (before clicking on the 'alternative fares') looks as though the system will assume you have avoided Z1 if you don't...