Recent content by paullb

Thanks everyone for your suggestions. I think I'll just stick with my original plan and go via London, it seems easier to do, and gets me there as early as possible.

I should add that I need to get to Edinburgh as early as possible in the morning, and then I'll be travelling back probably late evening. It will be a long day! If I remember correctly from when I looked at tickets earlier, the first train from Bicester is at 05:33 with a 07:30 train from...

I've looked at the calling points for the Kings Cross to Edinburgh train, and Birmingham isn't one of them, and of the others I don't see any that I could easily connect to. Perhaps I'll have to just head into London I don't see another way.

I plan to travel from Bicester to Edinburgh (and back again) some day later this month. My planned route is Bicester to London Marylebone, tube to Kings Cross, then catch a train from there to Edinburgh. I wonder if there is a better route?

The penalty fare amount has now been paid, as indicated today on the latest statement of my bank account. I'm glad to hear that no further action will be taken against me, which would have seemed unfair since I didn't intend to commit the offence (though I know ignorance isn't an excuse). Of...

I hoped that would be settled there and then. As I said this is the first time anything like this has happened to me so I turned to here for some advice. My concern is that the ticket inspector confiscated my ticket and YP card, which has my personal details on it, so I am worried what they...

I recently travelled on a Chiltern Railways train having purchased online prior to travel a ticket for which I selected to get a discount due to having a Young Persons railcard. I did not check it at the time so did not realise it had recently expired. On the train the conductor asked to...