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  1. F Great Eastern

    Merseyrail Areas and Zones

    Can anyone give me a map for the above. There is a daily unlimited use ticket for 3.90 that covers 2 zones and 1 area and another which covers all zones. Whilst if you put a start and end station on their website it tells you the number of zones or areas, there appears to be no map...
  2. F Great Eastern

    Manchester Airport to Manchester Picadilly Return

    Maybe I'm missing something here, but the fares are: £4.00 off-peak single €4.70 anytime single £6.80 First class anytime single €9.10 First class anytime return £9.40 standard class anytime return. Is this one of the rare occasions when it is cheaper to buy a first class anytime return than...
  3. F Great Eastern

    Is this cheating the system?

    So as you know there are 2 for 1 offers for places outside London that can be used with any type of train tickets as part of the National Rail ATOC promotion. Now maybe I'm stupid, but say I fly in from a different country to manchester, and then buy a open return ticket from Manchester...
  4. F Great Eastern

    Best Value ticket for tourist in Manchester

    One of my friends from Italy is coming to Manchester to see the city and also see Liverpool and a concert. They'll be in Manchester for a week and wanted to see all of the sights etc and was wondering what the best way to do that is. I see that Stagecoach do a weekly ticket for 12.50 and First...
  5. F Great Eastern

    National Rail Oyster Travel & Zone Capping

    Quick question, since I've never done this before but it will come in useful for the future. Does the Oyster daily capping for tube journeys also include journeys taken on National Rail such as FCC for example when used within the same zones. For example if I have hit the Zone 1-4 cap, and...
  6. F Great Eastern

    GA Refusing to Sell Ipswich to Stansted via Cambridge

    Hi All, The other day a friend of mine has their Stansted flights changed due to the weather disruption and due to this lost their nicely priced advance ticket from Stansted to Ipswich. With the walk up price for Stansted Express and Ipswich to London being pretty signifcent and the fact they...
  7. F Great Eastern

    The Role of ROSCO's and their future

    I just have been reading up details on the profits of ROSCO's and I'm amazed at how much money they make, they seem to have huge margins compared to the Train Operating Companies and surely this is something that needs to be addressed going forward. What I don't know is now that they own all...
  8. F Great Eastern

    FGW delays at Cardiff Central on 1st August after Olympic football match

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-19091014 Almost 20,000 people is pretty extreme.
  9. F Great Eastern

    Class 379's

    I went on one of these for the first time a couple of days ago, noticed there were not many of them around as I thought, and still some of the old Stansted Express units running around. My initial impressions were quite good. They're certainly nice and bright inside and having the plug sockets...
  10. F Great Eastern

    Liverpool Street Departure Boards to become Geographical

    http://www.nationalexpresseastanglia.com/rtti/changes-to-the-main-departure-board-at-london-liverpool-street What is everyone's thoughts on this? Whilst it sounds good in practice, there are a number of pitfalls. For example sometimes when I would be traveling I would not get the first...
  11. F Great Eastern

    Stansted Express - Ticket collection

    This should be a lesson to everyone who uses this train,. It seems the Stansted Express ticket collection system is on a different platform to all of the other ticket systems throughout the country. I know when you book tickets online from virtually anywhere you can collect them at any time...
  12. F Great Eastern

    Advance Tickets and Engineering works

    How these days are TOC's, specifically NXEA dealing with Advance tickets that have been hit by engineering works resulting in what would normally be one train, being two trains and a bus inbetween? The reason I asked, is last time I traveled during one of these situations I got penalty fared...
  13. F Great Eastern

    NXEA with 1x Class 90 and no DVT?

    Saw this going through Ipswich on Monday, a class 90 hauling towards Norwich with the usual array of coaches, but the back vehicle was just a first class MK3? Nothing else there at all? I wondered how it got to London before going back to Norwich and how it will get back?
  14. F Great Eastern

    Ex FGE Class 360s

    What is going on with these? Not only are they gong around with a blank purple livery (NX have only had the franchise for six years now) for about 18 months with marks from their old FGE livery and the odd random white stripe, but now they've started to rip seats out and replace them with...
  15. F Great Eastern

    FGW to Install PIS on Thames Valley Route

    Seems they're investing quite a bit right now, to go with the recently announced entertainment class on the HST's http://www.mediaweek.co.uk/News/MostEmailed/968831/TrainFX-secures-1m-signage-deal-First-Great-Western/
  16. F Great Eastern

    Can't Collect Advance Tickets

    Hi, What happens if you cannot collect advance tickets as the ticket machines are broken? The reason being it happened to a friend at a certain station, and both Ticket Machines were out of action and the ticket office said they could not print them. My friend got the train 15 minutes before...
  17. F Great Eastern

    Bristol Temple Meads - London Paddington

    Firstly a few questions 1) Which weekday morning services after 9 are most likely to have the full express cafe service as opposed to the new smaller ones? I used to know this down to a T but since they changed their timetable it seems that it has changed somewhat. 2) Are FGW still doing an at...
  18. F Great Eastern

    Train Companies "Rip Off Customers"

    http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Business/Train-Companies-Take-Advantage-Of-Passengers-With-High-Fare-Prices-Says-MPs-Report/Article/200907415346699?lpos=Business_Carousel_Region_3&lid=ARTICLE_15346699_Train_Companies_Take_Advantage_Of_Passengers_With_High_Fare_Prices_Says_MPs_Report Gotta...
  19. F Great Eastern

    FGW Buffets

    I just got this via email. Is this the same as the previous Express Cafes that were released when the HST's were refurbished like this: http://cjm.fotopic.net/p37083805.html Or is it different as it seems to suggest different?
  20. F Great Eastern

    Geoff Hoon Resigned as transport secetary

    Just on SKy news.

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