Recent content by Soton Jamie

Are you sure? My PAYG Oyster was registered online, I went to the LU ticket booth at Waterloo, gave the guy my OC, showed my YP railcard and 30 seconds later, maybe less, I had it loaded on.

This is true, but due to poor ticket inspections on trains, this is quite easy to get away with. I've regularly got the train between Brighton and Southampton and although Southern have some of the friendliest and most helpful staff I've come accross and they check tickets, I've rarely had mine...

Cheers, that's the answer I was looking for. I'm booked on the 1110 from KX on 19/2/10 and thanks to the advice above got the connection with the 0830 from Southamptpon C. This is fine, as I reckon it's better to build in a bit of cock-up time. Coming back is ridiculous on 20/02. I'm...

Yup, that's what the EC website says. I haven't booked it yet as I wanted to see where the land lay in relation to connections. What's even more frustrating is that the NRE website has the facility to reduce cross London times and quotes 1 fare. When you then go to book it through East Coast...

Thanks. Fully appreciate that I have to get the train I'm booked on with the main TOC (in this case East Coast's 1110 from Kings Cross). The connection given on the EC website leaves Southampton Central at 0835, changing at Eastleigh, Woking, Clapham Junction going into Victoria. Even though...

Hi all, I've had a search and couldn't come up with anything, so I thought I'd ask. When you buy a ticket that has a TOC with Connections on it, are the connections printed on the tickets only a suggestion, as they don't appear to have reservations on them, or are they ridgidly enforcable...