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THanks, that's interesting and makes sense. So I guess that means on any flow where an (undiscounted) return costs exactly twice the price of a single, and where the single price is not a multiple of 15p, it's likely to be slightly cheaper for railcard holders to buy two singles instead of a return.

Looking up some fares, I stumbled on this: Ewell West to Leatherhead with a senior railcard: Anytime single £3.10, Anytime return £6.25 Off-peak single £2.10, Offpeak return £4.25 The difference is small, but it means, whether going off-peak or peak, a return costs 5p more than 2 singles. That...

Windrush line completely suspended until the end of the day. Is there no way that TfL can at least run a service from Highbury and Islington to Surrey Quays?

Exactly. Journey planners generally require you to type in or at least click to select all sorts of information, including where you want to travel to and from, when you want to travel. For someone used to reading a timetable, it can be much quicker to get the information they need from the...

Thinking about that a bit more, I'm wondering how that is workable to only work to frequency and not scheduled times. Sure, for something like the Victoria line where the entire line has a very high frequency, you can do that without inconveniencing anyone. But some of the tube lines have a 2-3...

Not entirely. During the day, and for services that run very frequently, buses do indeed appear to run on that basis, and the public timetables shown eg. at bus stops tend to just say things like 'every 10 minutes'. But for less frequent services tihe stops do show actual departure times -...

I also think the TfL website is pretty rubbish in many ways. I agree with others that you'd rarely need to see an actual timetable for most tube lines, but I DO often want to see what the journey time between two stations on one line is. That's really hard to see with the journey planner...

Interesting. I don't ever recall noticing a train shaking as I arrived into Euston, and I would have thought that if trains did generally shake on arriving, that would be something that the general public would notice (To be fair, I'm pretty much never in the front carriage, which on Avanti...

I'm guessing you want to get at Thameslink Gatwick to St Pancras and then walk to Kings Cross? I tried tickets.railforums.co.uk, specifying via Kings Cross. The site initially showed me Gatwick Airport to Victoria then tube to Kings Cross, which I think is because the site thinks that's the...

I suspect the trainsplit is in a bit of a bind here. It's not at all unusual that someone might want to buy something other than the cheapest ticket (for example, because they want additional flexibility to decide later on on journey time / route / etc.), and it would be next to impossible to...

I'm curious what the cause of the disruption was. It was announced as being an earlier incident at Atherstone. The LNWR train I was on didn't stop at Atherstone, but also to my surprise went through Atherstone (Northbound) on the fast Southbound line, only reverting to the usual line just...

That was because at the time I was about to set off for Euston both it and the 13:46 were showing as cancelled so I figured it wasn't worth going to Euston for a while. Ironically it was just after 1pm I arrived but if that train was running I didn't notice it on the departure screens

All sorted. Lnwr have it seems managed to restore the 13:46 eus to Crewe (previously cancelled then showing as eus to rugby only) so I'm now on that waiting to depart 1784897095 Thanks for your help everyone

Thanks. I can't see how to do that on the Tpe site. I recall gwr used to allow that too. Does anyone happen to know? 1784895785 Now at Euston but queues at booking office are so long that I suspect I'll miss more trains queuing for them to book a bike 1784895893 One nice thing is the departure...

OK thanks. That does look potentially helpful, although with a teensy issue that I have a bike with me so can't get it on Avanti unless I find a train I can book on

OK thanks, that sounds reasonable. But no, not at Euston. I checked before setting off and realised there's no point my heading to Euston just yet. So you mean, if I had managed to get the 11:46 from Euston, I would be allowed to board an earlier Crewe-Chester train?

I was intending to travel today Euston-Chester, via: 12:46 LNWR Euston-Crewe (on a LNWR off-peak single), then 15:23 Crewe-Chester - on an advance ticket valid only on that train. The 12:46 from Euston has been cancelled, along with the 13:46, so I'm going to have to travel on the 14:46 and...

For travelling Harrow and Wealdstone to Queens Park on weekdays, trains are generally scheduled to take 22 minutes. But behind this, as far as I can make out from comparing the Lioness timetables and the live departure boards there's a (to my mind) odd difference between Lioness and Bakerloo...

But Lewisham is easily reached from the Woolwich line by using the DLR from Greenwich. I imagine that was mainly because it was the only CHX service to the Woolwich line, rather than because it went via Lewisham. And going to CHX meant that pre-Elizabeth line, it was by far the easiest way to...

Ah I see. So, checking the website, I just type in my actual origin station (or if I don't care about planning the journey and just want the ticket, any convenient London station), then select 'I have travelcard X' in the advanced options and then the site automatically takes that into account...