Recent content by Yankee01

I did give that a shot, moving the blind a bit, though, alas, to no avail. Just started to buzz again along with plenty of other windows in the carriage. The train did end up arriving 17 minutes late, 12:40 instead of 12:23. I assuming I can get delay repay compensation for this?

Just to follow up my own post, I went with standard premium and the carriage was nearly empty. Had the luggage rack to ourselves on a 10:07 service. A couple of people with standard tickets were booted during the ticket check Picked up a sandwich and drink prior to departure so self catering...

Thanks for the replies. The price differential between 1st and standard premium is about £55 right now on the Saturday services in early July for the morning between 9am - 11am. I'd pay for comfort in terms of the seating, and less crowded carriage, though that is quite a premium for...

I will be traveling between Euston and Liverpool on a Saturday in July leaving on one of the morning services between 8:30 - 11:00. I'll have a bit of luggage, a suitcase that would need to be stored on the luggage racks, something about average size that normally would be checked baggage on...

Thanks all for the advice on the boundary zone fares. That would be the best fit for what I'm looking to do. For the return, getting back to any London station on any route does give me more flexibility. Would this ticket be available from any TVM at the station? Something a bit unrelated, how...

I'm planning on making a day trip to Cambridge while I'm in London. My question is does split ticketing work with a travelcard loaded on an oyster card? That is, could I buy a Finsbury Park to Cambridge day return and use that along with the travelcard for the full journey? I figure the...

The overative text of the 22nd amendment as it stands right now: No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected...

Add this one to the tally where TfL chose not to prosecute. A warning for using someone else's ZIP Oyster over an extended period of time. Wow.

This becomes one of the problems with a representative democracy. Two major parties, each with their own ideology. The candidates selected, in nearly all cases, must be ideologically pure to win a nomination. There are some mavericks, but those are few and far between. Going outside of the...

One won't be able to get in at the gate, but the standard I've experienced at venues with mobile only ticketing is there is an open ticket office to handle the dead phones, or those who still choose not to own a smartphone.

In that case, you likely will need to start a thread in the Disputes & Prosecutions forum.

Passengers normally travel with their phones charged, as many can't seem to function without them. A rash of passengers suddenly traveling with dead phones just because they still can have their tickets checked by the guard just does not seem likely at all.

Using an untested system which doesn’t work is incompetence. Continuing to use that system to drag people off trains and issue penalties when one knows it’s faulty is fraud .

Regulations for quiet zones have been written and implemented in some places for populated areas. These require barrier arms across all lanes of traffic in both directions, or some sort of median or kurb extending a certain distance such that a vehicle can't be driven around an arm. No horn at...

Some information has been released from the data recorder. The train was under the speed limit. The horn sounded 1/4 mile out, which would be about 10 seconds before the crossing. This is inline with the Federal Railway Administration regulation of sounding the horn no more than 1/4 mile...