Recent content by No Brakes

Remember being at Dorchester one Saturday with loads of people on the platform who were going to a rugby game in Bath/Bristol area. There was no sign of a train but a bus pulled up on the other side of the platform. The driver popped out and looked around the other empty platform ignoring all of...

Apologies if this should be in the fares discussion, but I saw an all too familiar situation on the train earlier, where some teens clearly couldn't pay and weren't going to pay when asked by the guard, who told them to sort it out when they got to their final destination, as they only had a...

Luckily my journeys are between South West Trains stations so I can get 3% quidco, and they're usually pretty good at tracking/paying. Another one who won't be using RSH now, unless I can't find anything else to spend Tesco vouchers on. Actually won't be buying as much in Tesco too because of...

Just had a look on megatrain, and whilst you can't book November yet, looking at the 1st October, there's several trains for £6 from London to Southampton, so you should find something in a few weeks time. Takes an hour and a half to Soton.

I can probably help as I use Southampton Central all the time. If you're arriving anytime late evening then the barriers will be open anyway. If not I'd just get off and use the ticket from Brockenhurst to Southampton as that will surely be accepted by the barriers anyway? There's regular...

I heard a guard explain to a passenger a while ago when they asked the same question, that it was to do with people going up to London years ago (possibly war time) and getting boozed up, and selling their return portion onto others. To stop the practice they made singles and returns virtually...