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Watching a couple of programmes in this new series and most of the previous one, has raised a few queries which hopefully someone can answer. (Whilst they are in no particular order I have numbered them for ease of reference future reference.): If I heard correctly, TfL loose several hundred...

1782292448 Good morning all and thanks for your comments. A special thank you to TrainSplit Customer Support who sorted out all my problems for me – 5 stars for Customer Service!

We had two gwr Advance singles booked on the 15:03 departure from Paddington this morning, however we decided early this morning to call off our trip. An Advanced single cannot be cancelled before travel; the ticket states ""This ticket is not refundable, but it is exchangeable for a fee before...

I have an outgoing GWR Advance Single for next Monday afternoon and another one for my return on the following Thursday morning. The tickets were bought in the same transaction. The booking confirmation refers to "1 journey". The tickets state that "This ticket is not transferable, but is...

Just to be clear, broadly, a penalty clause is a contractual provision which levies an excessive monetary sum unrelated to the actual harm against a defaulting party. Penalty clauses are generally unenforceable under English law. However, in the typical Construction Industry contract there is...

Several years before HS2 was announced there was a major redevelopment proposal which took advantage of the fact that the existing concourse is several metres above the track level by creating two passenger areas. The lower, existing, level would be for passengers arriving on inbound trains with...

Many years ago, before HS2 was thought of, there was a serious proposal to completely re-build Euston on two levels to segregate arriving and departing passengers as much as possible. The tracks and platforms would have been at much the same level with arriving passengers leaving the station via...

I am a long-time user of this route, from the days when a diesel loco hauled a rake of Mk 1 coaches from somewhere North of WFJ to ECR & onwards. I have always wondered why the voltage change was not done at the next station - just think of all the amps that could have been saved by the train...

There have been comparisons with HS1, I worked on the Green Arrow (Costain / Hochtieff) bid for the construction of what is now known as HS1. It was a totally different type of contract. The line of route was determined by the Client, London & Continental Railways (?). They had pre-determined...

Good afternoon. We recently tried to travel from St Albans to Brighton for a day by the sea. Our train was terminated at London Bridge because of a fatality near Gatwick. As neither another railway route nor a replacement bus was offered, we decided to spend our time at Canary Wharf instead of...

Steve Montgomery was on BBC Radio 4's Today programme just after 0750 this morning. He stated that if the first offer made to Aslef was accepted then in a year's time the average train driver would be on £64,000 a year. Is this figure correct?

Try as a may I cannot get to it so please send a link to the tweet by Simon White. Thanks.

If I understand the situation correctly, the Railway Delivery Group has said that any pay rises can only be paid for by such things as doing away with archaic driver's rosters and making them "fit for the 21st Century", however they have not yet given any indication of what is currently archaic...

"...you could save money by splitting tickets even when a through ticket was available." Sorry to labour the point. but clearly in this case the split ticket costs 50% more than the through ticket, so why would you bother to split?

I thought the idea of a split was to travel the much the same route for less money, here you travel north to Tring catch a southbound train to Euston which passes through Hemel (without stopping), it takes19 minutes longer (nearly double the "direct" distance) and costs 50% more! However, if...