Recent content by Mister Ed

I am attempting to buy an advance single from London Euston to Birmingham New Street on Saturday 16 May. The only tickets I am offered are valid on London Northwestern Railway and West Midlands Railway services only, with Avanti West Coast (AWC) "sold out". I find this hard to believe. It is...

In the Lake District, some of the Stagecoach routes from Keswick have the same timetable 7 days a week in the summer season, eg 77 and 77A running Keswick - Buttermere - Honister- Seatoller - Keswick or vice versa and 78 Keswick - Seatoller. (The latter is scheduled for open top buses, by the way.)

I ordered a plastic railcard online on Sunday 1 June. The covering letter was dated 2 June and it arrived on Friday 6 June. The envelope was marked "Whistl" (no class indicated) and was delivered by Royal Mail as one of 11 items after nothing here for the previous three delivery days. The...

Thank you to both of you for your prompt and helpful replies. My recall is that when my booking on the Avanti site fell over on Saturday I did indeed try changing my seats from those allocated automatically. When I tried again the next day I made the same booking multiple times (without...

I am experiencing problems with paying for my tickets on Avanti's website. I am trying to book split advance tickets for a journey that involves a Cross Country train then Avanti. It was a lot of faff to obtain sensible seating from XC (7 goes to get 2 seats actually together) though it was a...

Thank you for your helpful replies. I am not familiar with ticket purchase in the area. At least for now I can buy a through ticket from an NR station to a TfL station and obtain a railcard discount, all with cash at a staffed booking office.

I live outside the London area but plan to make a one off return journey on the Elizabeth Line from Langley (Berks) to Tottenham Court Road on a Saturday in October. I have a National Railcard, which is also loaded onto my Oyster card. I note from this forum and various fares websites that...

In the late 1950s there was a builders' merchant on or near Crwys Road that had a siding on the west side of the Rhymney line near to the Crwys Road overbridge. It would have been served by the "pick up" goods service that delivered primarily domestic coal to stations such as Whitchurch. I...

This is probably in connection with the controversial plans to build a replacement for Velindre Hospital on a greenfield site "Northern Meadows" immediately to the south west of the old trackbed where the line went from Coryton to Tongwynlais and beyond. Access for construction traffic would be...

I’d appreciate some information please from members with local knowledge or recent use of this or other TfL car parks. I live outside Greater London and plan to use the NCP car park at Ickenham station overnight whilst staying in central London, using the underground on the first day and...

Thank you to both of you for your prompt and helpful replies. You have saved me going round in circles trying to find this out on a TfL website. Also I can be confident I have a valid ticket when there is an on board check.

I have an Oyster card which I use when I am in London due to its charging me the cheapest overall fare for multiple journeys. Until recently, I have had a National Railcard attached to the Oyster card to give me National Rail discounts on my Underground fares. After each renewal of my National...

Castle Cary's footbridge joining the platforms also serves the public footpath that runs north from the village itself to Ansford Bridge on the A371. I noticed at one of the Glastonbury festivals a few years ago that some "zoo fencing" had been erected near the exit from the up platform steps...

Thank you for your prompt and helpful replies. The car park at Ickenham was about half full mid morning yesterday, so no problem finding a space. After I entered my vehicle registration, the parking machine offered me a choice of cash or card and my £5.50 covered a stay up to 04:30 this morning.

I am planning to use one of these London Underground station car parks on Monday 30 December, arriving mid morning. How full is each likely to be at that date and time, please? I have found other details on NCP website entries, but they are silent about when in the day they are full up.