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Kiel to Oslo is good, but expensive. Oslo approach is most interesting inasmuch as a very big boat fits through a seemingly very narrow gap at Drøbak. I live near Oslo and I’m planning on going in the other direction this summer via Stockholm and the new SJ night train to Hamburg.

The country in which I live acted early and decisively on lockdown, with rather little formal entrenchment in law and little or no public discussion. There were some tales of non-compliance which were dealt with by the police quickly and without fuss. The difference with the UK? Well, there are...

It's absolutely fine that you don't understand yield management. No-one is expecting you to. Furthermore we are not discussing the reasonableness of things here. Anyone who thinks the terms are unreasonable are perfectly at liberty not to be constrained by them by not buying such tickets.

You'll be pleased to hear that your flittering and fluttering between rules / policy and "common sense" as you see fit is a source of amusement. A tip: if you want to form a coherent worldview, something more nuanced than "The TOC is The Big Bad Wolf" will be necessary.

You say three things here and only the latter is (perhaps) correct. I think you misunderstand. The difficulty or abstruseness of the conditions (which is nil for stopping short on Advances anyway) is not the point. The ludicrous bit is the idea that T+Cs are unenforceable because "no-one...

This is ludicrous.

The question is not whether you read the T&Cs. The question is whether you complain abut the T&Cs after having not read them because you couldn't be bothered. You seem to be advocating a new ticket type, what I call a "Cretins' and Chancers' Advance". It has all the terms of an Advance as we...

This is (used as) an excuse to do nothing (right now). There are no technological barriers to very significant degrees of penetration of renewables into the domestic electricity market more or less immediately. There are no economic barriers either, other than those raised by those with vested...

Could hardly be wider of the mark. For domestic, residential electricity in particular, anything other than "tree hugging solutions" is absolute insanity.

Nice try at confusing the issue. You know perfectly well that the Darlington issue wouldn't have even arisen had the passenger not chosen unilaterally to ignore the conditions attached to his ticket. You also know perfectly well that no-one (outside a bunch of nerds on an internet forum) gives a...

Yorkie: "common sense and ATOC guidelines?" Is that all you have? The first means "travel more cheaply than those who use their tickets correctly" and the second means "preventing folk from taking the **** isn't worth the PR". Pray tell, what message do you have for us who use tickets...

... because the ability to do what you feel like rather than follow clearly stated conditions like the rest of us will always hold sway in the Kangaroo Court of Public Opinion.

In terms of the recovery of the penalty fare and additional costs, this is true. (This is one of the few times when a meme oft-trotted-out on these boards, namely that "a penalty fare is not a fine", is useful). In terms of the offence itself, I am positive you are mistaken. I'm also...

Personally I think you're being generous towards the TOC here :o Obviously this is much preferable to getting into an argument, but these sort of things really are kindergarten-basic and there shouldn't be a guard in the country (that has been working more than 5 minutes) that should have to...

This can't be right. For starter's, it's not an excess at all, is it? Even if it is, the TVM can be used to buy a ticket that allows them to make at least part of the journey. It perhaps gets a bit murkier if it's an origin-only TVM and the pre-held ticket covers the first part of the...

Yes, a specifically numbered booked seat appearing on the itinerary is a sure fire sign that a particular leg is reservable and hence booked train only.

Quite. When the ash cloud came down in 2010 I found myself, most conveniently, in Umeå (I lived in the UK at the time). Sundsvall is indeed a long way from Copenhagen.

One uses "The Force".

Can't do any harm, but they will likely say that Advances are valid on the booked train only. In fact I don't know what else they can say. It looks like you are referring to a 21:45 departure from Paddington, which (as said above) still offers a fair degree of wiggle room on a 18:25 landing at...