Recent content by leytongabriel

I go up from Stratford to Ipswich off-peak on a weekly basis. Advance tickets have been £11 £14 and £17 return with a senior travel card on the GA app. Recently these have disappeared, and they are £22 to £30+; a huge increase. It's not that the trains are busier, if anything the opposite...

Yes Stratford rail ticket office is outside and not visible from the main concourse. Platform 10 with the main line trains plus Southends and Cl ctons must be in the running for the busiest platform with the least shelter. And on the subject of hidden booking offices , the one at Ipswich was...

Really appreciate the chance of a cuppa on the Anglia main line. And yes some people push the trolley through quickly without saying anything to minimise any chance of custom, but most are very nice and friendly. And occaissionally you get one who really doesn't fit and you think 'mangement...

The bit I don't get is that didn't a large amount of public money go into building those now unserved stations, but the discussion revolves around operator profitability. Has Eurostar got a contract leaving them immune from any responsibilty?

And the rerouting of Circle line trains so the District /Circle line platform is Edgware Rd only eastbound and less frequent and for Kings Cross etc. it's a trek over the to the H+C platforms or a change of trains after one stop. 1761140534 YES !!! And they have services which are mostly on...

You could have said the same about London Fields and Cambridge Heath vs Bethnal Green Central Line. But since they moved to a decent all-day service ( from weekday rush hours only) a healthy trafiic has built up going OUT of London. The Piccadilly is subject to all sorts of suspensions and...

Then we'd have the Izzy line as well as the Lizzie line!

First ride on a refurbished unit and dissapointing to see just the moquette renewed not the worn seat pads. So the moquette is sagging loose over the worn compressed pads and passenger comfort seems to be the lowest priority again.

A service on the Crystal Palace line via East Croydon?

Wanstead Park is really not near the park but is just by Wanstead Flats Theobalds Grove is a bit obscure. Waltham Cross North? If the football club agreed ( I believe they paid for the name change) Arsenal could go to Highbury Hill ( which it used to have in brackets) Millbrook station in...

Probably going to be shot down here, but think it would be great from a pssenger point of view if TfL Overground took over the Stratford - Meridian Water shuttles and the inner Lea Valley stations with Cheshunt terminators. At the moment there's a fares anomaly too to protect GA revenue. Then...

I'm thinking that there might be some parallels ( not all!) with Cambridge Heath and London Fields now on the Weaver Overground line. They used to have a miserable rush-hour only service, are close together, and Cambridge Heath was said to be too close to Bethnal Green tube to be viable. Now...

. No. I was literally thrown off my seat. There was a really bad jerky place, I'm talking some years ago. It was quite scary tbh. I wrote in and got a ' we know best ' kind of bureaucratic reply but the track did get repairer.

We had a bumpy track, be careful with hot drinks warning on the GAML today. Full justified imho by the state of the track around Shenfield. 1756318330 Ive been thrown off my seat on the DLR between Bow Road and Pudding Mill Lane and some outer parts of the Epping branch of the Central line are...