Recent content by PG87

Completely agree about weather apps, but that is obviously subjective, variable data where uncertainties are hard to display via a single icon. Train times are the opposite: binary right or wrong and very easy to display in an app. It feels amazing that wrong information can be fed to so many...

Does anyone know where Google Maps pulls the data it uses for train times from? I’ve noticed on a few recent occasions that it has been completely wrong. Sometimes trains show up on Google that don’t exist, and this morning it claimed that a Thameslink train from Herne Hill was running 8 mins...

Hi, This must have been discussed before, apologies if so. I just noticed you can choose to refund an unused ticket - no questions asked - on Trainline, even after your journey would have been completed. What’s stopping a people just refunding their ticket for every journey where there are...

Thameslink on the Sutton loop into Blackfriars/Farringdon was extremely busy this morning, standing only and some people left on platforms around Herne Hill/Loughborough Junction. My train was probably the busiest service I have squeezed onto in a decade of commuting from various parts of...

In the end I left this as I didn't fancy a lengthy debate with a rail operator. But strangely they got back in touch, unsolicited, and offered a goodwill voucher. Seems if the guard had reported it it would have been full compensation. Still, better than nothing.

Thanks all for a range of very useful responses.

Thanks all for the replies. Wasn't expecting any compensation until I saw LNER's Twitter suggesting people contact customer services. Probably won't get into a large row with LNER over it, just found it odd how they contested the facts.

Hi all- I am sorry if this is in the wrong thread. Two of us travelled from Kings X to Edinburgh earlier this month on one of the very hot days of the heatwave. We had seats assigned and the train was full. The air-con was working in some carriages and not others, and we were one of the...