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According to Gatwick Express's website its 31 minutes from Gatwick to Victoria @£19.50 for a single, but according to GTR's Thameslink Facebook ads its "as little as 29 mins and as little as £11.30" to get from London Bridge to Gatwick airport, have they finally given up on the Gatwick Express?

Horsham to Drayton Park, normally I buy Horsham to Gatwick, Gatwick to East / West Croydon, and then Croydon to Drayton Park. Taking the Thameslink train from Horsham to Finsbury Park, then changing to Great Northern to Drayton Park

From the Thameslink journey planner 1685379249 It's part of a split journey, so I don't get off the train

I was buying a return from East Croydon or West Croydon to Drayton Park, routed via either CITY TL/SURREY Q, which was £13.90 (not using any discounts or railcards) but the fare for tomorrow morning appears to be £20.70

I regularly travel between two GTR stations, in early March the return price increased by 80p a day (Which I was expecting), but since last week the price according to journey planners has risen by a further 49% Has there been a further fare increase this week?

Earlier today I tried to collect a pre-booked ticket for travel tomorrow, but one of the ticket machines at the station was out of order and the other had the collection option greyed out. I messaged the TOC to ask what I should do assuming there was still a problem tomorrow morning, and they...

I've missed trains from Drayton Park to Finsbury Park, that have arrived at Finsbury before they're supposed to have left Drayton

The ICO's Subject Access Request code of practice [Link to PDF] says otherwise

A Subject Access Request has to be made in writing but doesn't have to be a "hard copy", meaning a valid SAR can be submitted via Twitter, Facebook, etc. Additionally, it doesn't have to be submitted to the person that deals with them or via a form. Which in the case of Scotrail giving a driver...

That crossing has a "Gatso" style camera on both sides

The local Horsham paper is reporting that a train went through Parsonage Road level crossing with one of the barriers still in the upright position. https://www.wscountytimes.co.uk/news/police-called-to-dangerous-fault-at-horsham-level-crossing-1-8787681

I swapped to the online version a long time ago, but due to GTR making trains "vanish" from the timetable I've now got a paper copy of the timetables to make delay repay slightly easier. Although I'm surprised that they're all now A4 vs the pocket timetables I was picking up 25 years ago when...

At Finsbury Park I'm getting pretty used to running from platform 2 to platform 4 (although tonight it was 4 to 2) but as platform 2 is double sided is there a technical reason why platforms 3 & 4 aren't used to save the running between platforms?

Due to GTR making trains vanishing from the online timetable over the past few months, I thought it was worthwhile asking for a paper copy of "the truth", but today I was handed a pile of huge A4 timetables. Is this a recent change or have the pocket paper timetables of old been gone for longer?

It appears the platform also has problems http://www.croydonadvertiser.co.uk/southern-rail-closed-newly-resurfaced-platforms-as-ice-was-more-difficult-to-treat/story-30027057-detail/story.html