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Here in SWR land on the new Class 701 which otherwise like I can max out my ear buds to painful levels and still the incessant announcements get through!

Then you have SWR that runs between Wokingham and Reading (at the western end of the North Downs Line(NDL) where according to the timetable 1st is declassified on all services but the station display show the 1sr class sections and trains have clearly marked 1st class compartments.

And they keep promoting e-tickets which require us to bring Li-Ion installed and a spare on board to ensure the device is charge, often with access to onboard charging facilities.

When the railways were originally built their were plenty of Nimbys amongst the major landowners that wanted the railway diverted away from their properties its not something new.

For Eurostar this point always rankles as it assumes we all live next to St Pancras which very few people do. The only part with a guaranteed seat is on the Eurostar or plane, and an hour on squeezy jet is no worse than a couple on the Eurostar. In the UK a seat reservation on long distance...

Yesterday the station staff in Cornwall were fantastic, considering they are reliant on staffed stations further up and down the line as control/company seems to think they don't exist.

I don't know if it's related but signaling issues on the south side of Dartmoor losing 1/2 hour on the 11:15 Plymouth to London train between Ivybridge and Totnes other services to be suffering similar issues in both directions.

Rail maybe safer but for the vast majority of us we are used to the risks of road travel since we need to get to and from a station to access the railway as it only serves a very limited number of destinations, and when the railway shuts for engineering, strikes or overnight as its not a 24/7...

I've been doing Reading to Wokingham on regular a basis recently as my car was out of commission. The amount of automated and manual PA announcements (much of it threating passengers with impending doom) before we even leave Reading, overwhelms anyone on their phone or playing music. If I have...

Many thanks I just thought it was me doing something wrong.

Just tried to buy tickets from London Liverpool Street to Staines tickets, but 'no valid fares' . It's crazy that you have to online to buy perfectly tickets, it's as if they don't want to travel. Plenty of international customers, presumably they expect us to use contactless/oyster to Waterloo...

There's a large chain of supermarkets beginning with S that requires receipts to be scanned to exit on self serve . Not great when you've got handfuls of shopping.

I'm not in London but this map and the other maps look like they be a useful resource for me,

I'm looking to get a weekly ticket from Reading to Wokingham, as the car is off the road hopefully not for long. I went to buy a weekly season ticket online and it came back with £12.50, thinking this was a...

A busy evening here at Paddington. The following probably already cover before! Minimum connection time is 15 minutes but crowds trying to get through limited gates as so much space taken up by cabins for things Heathrow Express etc rather than gates, it's starting to feel like Euston but...