Recent content by tarq

I think when they had assumed from previous experiences of trains being cancelled (which involved more wider disruption) that they didn’t need to rush to the station, could stay for dinner, and had the flexibility to take any later service. Thanks to everyone that took the time to reply and...

A friend of mine had an Advance ticket for an Avanti service that was cancelled. They travelled on a later service and the guard insisted they purchase a brand new ticket as Avanti only permit passengers booked onto cancelled services to travel on the service immediately before or after. This...

Is there any information about this work and progress to date, available in the public domain? I’m convinced if a single GB National Rail TVM UI were to be designed and rolled out nationally we would have a more much up to date, consistent, and feature rich TVM experience. It’s a no brainer...

Looks like there are 4 departures to London from Bradford again from tomorrow, do i take it that the 221s are fully cleared to Bradford?

At my work there is a staff canteen and I’m sure there are people that eat a traditional cooked breakfast every day but most people only have it as a occasional Sunday brunch or holiday treat. I suspect most British people under 35 if travelling by rail at breakfast time would either have a...

I travelled from La Spezia to Vienna a few weeks ago, the berths and toilets were spotlessly clean, everything was pretty seamless.

I used it today at Brighouse to buy an advance ticket that I had seen online. Very useful feature that I think could make a huge difference for anyone that isn’t confident with machines or just needs some reassurance that they are selecting the best fare option. The only problem I had was it...

Heathrow is in Zone 6 so you shouldn’t need to buy a ticket from Heathrow to Z6, you just need a Z1-6 travelcard, which is railcard discountable.

I’ve read somewhere that the ticket validation done by the gateline barcode readers is much less sophisticated than the checks done by the CCST reader, and it was for this reason that Northern trialled a separate so-called polygraph machine earlier this year, is there any truth in that? If the...

Ang idea when will we start to see other examples of ticket offices, on board or TVMs printing barcodes on paper till roll excluding EMR?

I would like to see a single system whereby all tickets are recorded in a unified database (like with aviation) but printable as Aztec codes from ticket offices, ticket machines or printers, or shown on device or added to a smartcard. So regardless of where/how I bought the ticket, I should be...

Did they definitely say Elizabeth line? All the times I have been on the EL, the announcement says “this is the train to Abbey Wood via Canary Wharf” no mention of Elizabeth line.

The new tunnelled bit in the middle. Source

Ask a member of staff in the tube station (Euston or Euston Square) and they will add it for you using a ticket machine.

The larger ticket machine in the tube ticket hall closest to the National Rail Station at Charing Cross (entrance at the top of Villers St) definitely has them because I used that one the other day after being directed to it by the staff working there.