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I see that from the December timetable the Chiltern train is replaced by a once-a-week bus from West Ealing to West Ruislip (no return trip), confirming I presume that it is an actual "Parliamentary" service which has to be retained despite serving virtually no useful purpose for passengers or...

That takes me back! If you're hoping to challenge something rather than just reminiscing then the best of luck at this distance. Your union may still have records as it will all have been negotiated. I can confirm that R18 was the lowest as I was one briefly; Personnel made a hash of the...

Had the return half of a Super Off-peak Return to Loughborough rejected today when starting the journey at Loughborough. Gate said it was past its valid date despite the return half being valid for a month from yesterday (Reject code 113). St Pancras gates were quite happy to let me out 90...

I'd assumed BrianW was referring to the enormous yellow LOW BRIDGE warning, lairy black/yellow hatching and both metric and imperial height warning triangles across the bridge apparently going unnoticed by some lorry drivers. As a local, I'm pretty sure the road has never been called Harefield...

Priv travel arrangements were one of the things rather glossed over in TfL's eagerness to close ticket offices. Part of the resistance by station staff both formally in terms of union agreement and informal local reluctance or claimed lack of training is because staff are expected to carry out...

The Twitter link shows me something about service patterns not fares. Commenting on the text James pasted though: They really need to make clear to non-experts what they mean by "London Underground tickets". They mean I think what are internally called SOO tickets, ie just showing the issuing...

My fault; didn't scroll past all the many Travelcard fares. I'm sure it's meant only for approaching Farringdon from the south using Thameslink but that will be far from clear to the average punter. The route description should have been changed as many others were to mention City Thameslink.

There's no such ticket so far as I can tell. It's just a normal Reading-Zone U1 ticket, with the normal problem of working out how you actually have to select the destination ("London Underground Zone 1", "Underground Zone 1" etc) on whatever ticket machine you are using if it doesn't have...

I suspect the "Kings Cross only for Break of Journey" bit is a clumsy attempt to stop it then inheriting validity on LU Finsbury Park-Kings Cross and Kings Cross-Moorgate, and GN to Moorgate. I can't see how barring a journey ending at Kings Cross can be defended given that it's a sort of...

...and Herston is handy for some of the local campsites. I've used it myself.

How about using the word "shop" when they mean "buy"? Adverts will often invite me to "Shop our new range of xxx". Possibly it's because many people now treat shopping as a leisure activity in its own right but buying something is more directly associated with the painful bit of actually paying.

Conversely the timetable might tempt extra travellers given what appears at a glance to be a 50 minute journey time from Nottingham to Matlock; it's very easy to overlook the negative connection time. Time for a (not so) swift half down the road in the Brunswick as consolation once you reach...

...and while there may not be union recognition for negotiating pay and the like, there's nothing to stop you all joining a relevant trade union to get access to employment law advice and support in the event of a problem.

The revenue from staff nominee travel is also only lost if the person travelling would have travelled anyway, which isn't guaranteed. My partner only took a particular job because she could get there free, and changed jobs (not partner, thankfully!) once I was no longer eligible. Free travel at...

In a decade time we should surely have a single pricing system that no longer means people have to split the journey in two for the best fare because different organisations and political ideologies define the rules. On the other hand...

There's been an OSI between Paddington and Lancaster Gate for many years now. It's not highlighted as you wouldn't want a novice visitor to think it's straightforward like crossing the road at Hammersmith (and Lancaster Gate with its lifts couldn't cope with large numbers of extra users), but...

I was indirectly responsible for London Underground's internal phone system changing from a long single ring to the more usual "ring-ring" in the mid-1980s. We started replacing extension bells on stations with shrill electronic ringers, and the Fire Brigade pointed out that the resulting sound...

Ecclesbourne Valley often have fish and chips or similar on the evening of galas

I love the set (so different from the tatty Mk 1s most heritage railways trot out) but it does feel rather incongruous at a diesel gala when a rake of blue/grey early Mk 2s might be more appropriate.

Given how much later than everyone else we still had hand-written free tickets that you had to apply for in writing, I'm not holding my breath!