Recent content by MagicalWill

You’re all arguing about whether GWR or the DfT or railway staff or some managers are responsible. It doesn’t matter who ultimately is responsible on the day for a passenger, and they don’t care what GWR is contracted to do with the DfT or whether people are working overtime or not...

It’s a shame they keep publishing the Sunday timetables when they must know by now (are we on the 4th or 5th week) they won’t be able to fulfil them. Surprised they haven’t got an emergency bare minimum Sunday timetable or something so we can at least plan journeys in advance.

Okay thank you - but why is it always so last minute? Why can't they know who's volunteered for overtime decently far in advance? Why promise a timetable if they know they can't honor it?

Oh yay, another vague statement saying journey planners will not be updated until Sunday morning!? Why GWR!? https://x.com/GWRHelp/status/1862194620626509960 How is anyone supposed to ever travel on a Sunday? I get there's engineering work - and I can see that in the timetable, so what's changed...

It seems that suddenly the last few weeks GWR has had mass cancellations/major last minute time table changes on Sundays due to "crew availability". This is rather vague, and I'd like to try and understand why suddenly traveling on a Sunday has got even more stressful. Does anyone know 1)...

I’ve had Rail Travel Vouchers before for delay repay, but is it possible to buy these independently at a ticket office at any value? Then they could be used as a gift card (for me!)

So can I check about 5K - it's all a bit confusing because it says the following: "Restriction Codes 7E and 9J apply to all journeys via London St Pancras International." so then I check codes 7E and 9J... and 7E has the following: Details about restriction times for St Pancras, which I /will/...

Hello, I’ve had multiple bad experiences with the gateline staff at Paddington accusing me of trying to break the rules and telling me my ticket is not valid when travelling long distance - even when I’m sure it’s fine and I have checked the restriction code. Only after having to ask them...

Ah I see how parliamentary works then! Thank you.

Oh cool, thank you! :) - so probably parliamentary then?

Hi, I was doing a bit of searching on Real Time Trains for my local station, Didcot, when I happened on a direct service from Oxford to Gatwick Airport (stopping at Didcot too). I can't see any other services like this in the weeks before or after this date. Is this a one off, a parliamentary...