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What is the best route that we can come up with for circumnavigating London? By that, I mean travelling in a complete loop around the capital without actually entering London. How exactly 'best' is defined I will leave to be determined, but some obvious points would be faster routes, cheaper...

Is that wrong? I say London Kings Cross...

Alright. Using Monday the 6th of July, National Rail Enquiries does recommend the following itinerary for Sowerby Bridge to Birmingham International: 6.04 Sowerby Bridge > 7.01 Salford Crescent (Northern) 7.06 Salford Crescent > 7.15 Manchester Picc (Northern) 7.27 Manchester Picc > 9.13...

It....doesn't. At all. Give me a minute and I'll have a slightly more careful look at this

I haven't checked the Routeing Guide yet, but what crosscity says unfortunately sounds correct. National Rail Enquiries suggests an itinerary from Sowerby Bridge to Birmingham International that simply has Manchester Victoria to Manchester Piccadilly as an OSI (rather than a train journey)...

I think those saying that the passenger doesn't have to buy the through ticket misunderstand the strength of the right conferred by condition 14.1 of the NRCoT. It says that passengers are not breaking the rules if they use split tickets. I don't think that it elevates the passenger's preferred...

Capels, next to Exmouth

In GWRland it's not uncommon at smaller stations to find that T.V.M.s only accept card. In these cases boarding the train and paying in cash is entirely permitted. I've never seen a guard on the train reject cash - I imagine if the worst comes to the worst they could simply sell the ticket "for...

Honestly, whatever the rules say, it's a real dick move not to sit in your reserved seat unless the train is almost entirely empty. You're essentially taking up two seats.

I won't comment on the content of the letter or anything else for now, but here is a version with 'touched up' grammar: Dear Sir or Madam, On the morning of the 11th of March, I was running late for work and did not purchase a ticket. This was a very silly mistake, and, looking back, I am...

I've been refused access to the 'outside world' at Hereford travelling on advance ticket, despite serious TfW disruption that ultimately ended up with all passengers travelling on TfW to Newport, Cardiff etc. being delayed for five hours. The insistence was that my ticket did not allow me to...

[2] Yes. Map PR (which allows travel from London to Manchester via Sheffield on the M.M.L.) is a permitted route between London Group and Manchester, and LONDON is a permitted route between Portsmouth and Manchester. Your daughter would be free to travel via St Pancras and Sheffield; other...

Here in rural GWRland (Devon) you hear some great ones. A favourite of mine was when the guard walked into the carriage and cheerfully announced "tickets, passes, railcards and excuses, please." That same gentleman also referred to "Starcross-on-the-Mud," and when we arrived at Exeter Central...

It is my understanding that there is no requirement to tap out at the boundary station if you are traveling using a combination of an Oyster ticket within the Zones and an ordinary National Rail ticket from a boundary station to your final destination. It is also my understanding that there is...

Section 69 of the Consumer Rights Act 2015 states "If a term in a consumer contract, or a consumer notice, could have different meanings, the meaning that is most favourable to the consumer is to prevail." Plainly, this is a consumer notice that could be interpreted ambiguously, with the term...

Given the long history of N.R.E. and the N.R.G. disagreeing with one another, and the unreliability of existing programmed barriers, I think it seems a little optimistic to suppose that these kinds of errors will be made less significant by trying to roll something like that out network-wide. A...

Another option would be to purchase an outboundary Travelcard return from Tonbridge, costing £22.60 (30p cheaper than combining an ordinary single, a 60+ Oyster and a Boundary Zone 6 ticket.) If you have a Senior or Network Railcard, an outboundary Travelcard only costs £14.90. This ticket...

I sometimes worry that I will run out of charge using an e-ticket, particularly in the case of disruption. On delayed T.f.W. and S.W.R. services I've had my phone run out of battery and then been asked for my ticket - had I been using an e-ticket and not a paper ticket, I'd have been screwed...

While they'll have to pry my orange cardboard ticket from my cold, dead hands... I think this is largely true. Proper e-tickets are completely fine and there's really no reason why, had we a proper regulator, everything couldn't be simple, easy and unambiguous.

Christ alive, what a poor performance from Northern. They need to get themselves together.