Recent content by moliones

Do easements apply to routes which (might be) valid by virtue of being not 3 miles longer than the shortest route by rail?

Given that trainline also returns a £6.40, 3h20m itinerary for Stratford International to St Pancras International, via Margate, is this more or less valid? (You wouldn't call at the destination twice, but instead call again at the origin)

Some banks allow for an emergency cash (from an ATM) function. For example, in the Natwest app, you can generate a one-time code that can be entered into a RBS-group ATM, with no card, and it will dispense the requested amount of cash. Other banks may have similar things, or perhaps be able to...

While a Niedersachsen Länderticket is valid in Hamburg, Bremen, and Bremerhaven (https://www.bahn.com/en/view/mdb/bahnintern/angebotsberatung/regio/laender-tickets/pdfs/2018/mdb_267120_niedersa_ticket_geltungsbereich_2017.pdf), none of them are in Niedersachsen.

You can get a Bahncard Probe (https://www.bahn.de/p/view/bahncard/ueberblick/probebahncard.shtml, I was unable to find this information in English sorry), which you can buy online with a British debit/credit card, and is valid for 3 months. It will turn into an annual subscription unless you...

If the one who is on-time waits, surely the late-one's ticket is valid (missed connection due to delays on the railway), and they're traveling with the other person on the railcard. And the on-time one buys a walkup ticket (also with railcard discount), surely everything would be regular (if...

Could the clerk have assumed the journey would start from Exeter Central, but no ticket would be held until St James Park?

Presumably starting late or stopping short.

I don't think that's quite right. If you have an & Connections ticket with an unreserved leg, you cannot (AFAIUI) travel on a reservable service. In other situations, if say every other train was reservable, then by selecting one of the non-reservable services, you would still be excluded from...

This is not really a dispute, but I thought it might be useful to have a more positive perspective in this forum for a change. Back when the "Beast from the East" hit, I was travelling from Hull to Manchester Airport, travelling on an Off-peak Return Hull to Manchester Stations, and an Anytime...

So, perhaps as a consequence of low-quality journalism, coupled with lack of an authoritative statement from Northern, the Hull Daily Mail has an article "clarifying" the earlier article about penalty fares. (yes, it is normal in that fine newspaper for one sentence = one paragraph) Now...

Well, I can't comment on the suitability of Hull routes to have PFs applied, but I'm not surprised the Hull Daily Mail seem to have got it slightly/very wrong.

Where exactly are Northern planning to designate as Penalty Fare stations/routes? This post has a newspaper article claiming some routes near Manchester/Liverpool will be, And the Hull Daily Mail (so, I don't really trust the information in it) suggests perhaps all Northern routes might be...

That could be it, though I often don't get that with an & Connections advance ticket (with unreserved first leg).

The terms and conditions of the railcard do not say that all of those travelling must use railcard-discounted tickets. (https://www.familyandfriends-railcard.co.uk/help/railcard-terms-conditions/)