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SWR installed 60 trickle charge points for EVs in some of their car parks. Mostly (I think) at stations where they had added upper decks to ground level parking. My station, Basingstoke, has 18. A check recently showed to me that around two thirds of these are taped off out of use. Can anyone...

Here below is a link to a DfT press release https://www.gov.uk/government/news/significant-government-investment-set-to-transform-transport-links-across-the-north What immediately drew my attention was the photo they used to illustrate it. (Attached too). To me it appears to be a photo of an...

I have lost my PAYG Oyster card. Trying to report it lost and replace it on the Oyster app, I keep going round in circles and am asked repeatedly to log in to my account. Is this normal or a result of the "cyber incident" and TfL's attempts to repair the damage done? Any help gratefully...

This was inspired by my daughter's desire to relive her Interrail experiences of more than 20 years ago. I had also done holiday rail trips to Italy and Germany in the not too distant past. 5 of us (3 generations) started at Walthamstow Central tube station with the 2nd train of the day to St...

The Evening Standard has a story today which states that TfL bus fare prosecutions may be invalid due to incorrect online advice within their Frequently Asked Questions. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/tfl-dodging-bus-fare-convictions-invalid-sjp-b1171653.html The basis of the problem is...

We get regular warnings in the media about high temperatures, and some very sensible advice, especially for when travelling abroad. However there's one thing that I found irritating. That's the confusion between protecting ourselves against the sun's affect on the skin and protection against...

As a family we've booked Inter rail tickets for early August. Part of our planned itinerary is from Switzerland via Domodossola to Stresa. Then later, on from Stresa to Milan. It appears that trains are replaced by buses on the dates we wish to travel. Does anyone know how practical these might...

I realise that just about every bus I've been on has had a publicly displayed notice saying what the max nos. of seated and standing passengers are. I'm on this Stagecoach South bus and I cannot see one. Was it mandatory and is it still so now?

A query has come up in the disputes sub-forum where a passenger refused to tap the reader of a TfL plain clothes RPI with their bank card. They hadn't seen a plain clothes RPI before and were scared of falling victim to a payment scam. A contributor pointed out how relatively simple it would be...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/so-confused-using-senior-rail-card-for-early-departures-chesterfield-to-london-chesterfield-to-manchester.266671/ It's as if they've gone to sleep in Railcard land. Network Railcard should have been renamed SE Railcard or...

I've heard from a friend that she couldn't get close to Basingstoke station this morning and had to abort a trip to London. Online sites say that the whole area of the station and Alencon Link in front of it are closed to everyone including buses. I went through at 08.49. Platform 4, and I'd...

Why not control future EMUs (& DMUs) from the rear cab? It would lower the risk for the driver in the event on hitting anything. The technology exists. Especially on DOO trains, the survival of the only staff member is extremely important for passenger safety in the event of a collision or...

I heard a presentation by Roger French that described a reversal of the PlusBus scheme where tickets were issued, presumably on the buses in Brighton, to cover travel on Thameslink to London. Could this work elsewhere with buses issuing Aztec coded tickets. Integrated public transport and all that!

Intrigued by the spellings used in this subforum, I actually looked it up and the thread title explains all. Here is a Gov.uk screenshot confirming the UK spelling.

We get regular cases on the prosecutions sub-forum of people who are in trouble with expired Railcards but where the online ticket seller had automatically ticked the Railcard box, even in cases where the ticket seller's app held the Railcard! Should there be a total moratorium on this autofill...

Interesting article in the Financial Times. Link here https://www.ft.com/content/16011adf-94a6-415b-8d3a-78f4cbbddc58 It unveils some interesting financial stats. The basic annual operating fee is £8.8 million, but there is another £22 million available based on performance. Wow! The FT...

There's a current thread where a passenger bought a wrong date ticket and was let through after a ticket gate rejected it. They then got challenged at the journey end and got hit with a penalty of £116. There really does need to be proper scrutiny of tickets that gates reject, to protect...

Today's (Monday 5 Feb) You and Yours programme will cover the complexities of rail ticket purchase.

Is Bursledon to Winchester via a change at Southampton a permitted route? It involves a degree of doubling back.

There's an article in today's Times concerning the "injustice" of the SJP. The article is mainly criticising the use of criminal prosecution for relatively minor failures to pay for a good or service. Something we'd probably agree with here! It includes an interesting table of SJ procedure...