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The journey planners use the concept of permitted routes from origin to the first boundary station. This gets a bit confused because they also use timetable links (like the walk between the two St Albans stations) which of course are not in the Routeing Guide (as that only uses national rail...

They spent less on revamping London Overground, which carries more passengers than the whole of Scotrail.

Euston barrier line can add 5 minutes to your journey if three am peak arrivals occur (which is fairly common). A nightmare for those exiting and those moving toward a departure. The best solution would be to widen the ramp (back to its original design) by removing the WH smiths and M&S simply...

The journey planners have always used NFM64 Fares in fares checking. The only change is that it is now explicit on the Routeing Guide web pages. See wording from the forums guide to Routeing:-

I think the 3 mile allowance for local journey calculations was the original reason it was introduced.

The whole point if the Routeing Guide was to preserve what existed in 1996. - not the routes of 1986, 2006 or 2016. Current fares would be best and I am sure TOCS and providers of Journey Planners would agree. All you need do is persuade DfT and Transport Focus who insist on the historic NFM64...

I think the journey planners abide by this. I would suggest that anything else is invalid, but maybe this wording is wrong! The Routeing Guide contains many maps showing mapped routes between stations. Because of the vast number of stations in the network, it is not possible to provide an...

I thought Wembley stadium was renamed well before 1996. Certainly the actual station was there in the 1970s

The tool says Marylebone is not a valid destination routeing point and the only valid one is South Ruislip. It says Wokingham is a valid origin routeing point. But the fares check requires you to have both a valid origin and destination routeing point. I think that's why the journey planner is...

That's a key point. Only safeguarded staff are entitled to priv rates on London Underground services. New entrants are discounts on TOC services only

Section pay is adjusted for the impact of receiving a state pension. It is explained on the pensions website

It depends on each employer. For example my rail employer has three rates of contributions into railway pension scheme. The highest is for people with indefisiable right to a pension as per the conditions pre 1994 that's 13 3/4% the new entrants are at 8% but they cannot get their pension until...

It's a good question. If tickets are for immediate travel that day excess them. If not hand them over and say they are not valid for travel if a valid railcard can not be produced

I am looking into moving half way between Brockenhurst and Salisbury. Am I right in thinking that as a result of these changes, there is now no annual season ticket that I can get that would allow me to go from London and choose either destination without paying an excess? What about Dorchester...

The Advance part of the ticket you have to abide by is the train/seat reserved as part of your transaction. No reason why you cannot travel to Euston earlier - You just have to use the Virgin train you are reserved on. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- I am sure you are right...

Saying that the Virgin fast lines at Willesden count as passing through Willesden Junction once, before returning on the DC lines.

That's not how double backs work. Willesden Junction is a routeing point. I think journey planners provide an itinary either change at Milton Keynes or go to Euston as the condition of the route is met. Ie on VWC and then a connecting service. The route is only used on Advance fares as far as I...

Cash refund for some might be less than say a taxi to get you home!

Best of all is a cash back card like Santander 123 credit card. You can get between 1-2% on your rail purchases? some are capped to £300 a month.

Best thing is ring the railway pension helpline. They will give you definitive advice.