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The LA issuing the card maintains the hotlist database, and by some means circulates this information to operators for them to enforce. I am not sure if it is automatic or not; I suspect not, so it would be unlikely for a hotlisted Devon pass to be flagged up as such in Yorkshire, for example...

I can only echo the replies above. The GWR service, while not terrible, is not ultra reliable either, and the SWT service is painful enough to do once, let alone daily as part of a three-leg journey. Don't do it! If, presumably, you are currently paying for accommodation in London, you would...

Your ticket is valid via Brighton & Lewes, and you haven't got it wrong. It may seem a little odd, but traditionally validities were always fairly flexible along the Sussex Coast, long before the Routeing Guide was ever thought of. Probably due to the large variety of possible routes and...

BRFares shows two options for this route. "Direct", and "Any Permitted". Since Selby is a routeing point, and East Garforth is a member of Leeds Group, and the only mapped route between the two is HL, ie "Direct", what additional routes can the Any Permitted fare be used on? Many thanks as...

Back in the 90's I was driving a bus in central London when pax made me aware of an unattended suitcase. At the time we were told "Samsonite" suitcases were a favourite of the IRA. After following procedure, evacuating pax to more than 50m away, calling police from a telephone box (mobiles being...

On my last one now, a 150 on 1739 CNM - SWI

Many thanks for the replies. I didn't really want to use a Crosscountry train as such, it just confused me why the XC&cons advances weren't showing. Come Friday, I shall use Romilly's idea of using trainsplit.com (which I didn't realise had that interchange time feature) to try and get a ticket...

Hi all, I want to travel on Tue 26/01/16 on the following trains: 1012 Hull - York (1120) 1154 York - Darlington (1220) 1232 Darlington - Saltburn (1324) (there may be slight variations to times in the new timetable) As the VTEC trains should be available for booking this week, I...

If a non-London bus operator accepts rail ticket holders in times of disruption, the financial aspects will be a matter for the respective managements of the bus and rail operators. The bus operator and its staff will not normally be concerned with the validity or otherwise of rail tickets or...

Until the early 90s there was a waiting room, ladies waiting room and gents toilet open on the up platform. The two waiting rooms had attractive (original LB&SCR?) plate glass windows identifying their purposes. One day when I was waiting for a train a BR yellow van turned up, the men proceeded...

I've had reminders for both my Network and 2T railcards. Along with assorted other nonsense about hotel discounts and things. And at Didcot Parkway I also got handed a scrappy bit of paper listing the times "when you can use off-peak tickets from Paddington in the evening peak" - but that and...

On 16 May I shall be "doing" the Brigg line. Part of my (extensive) plan includes travelling Doncaster - Gainsborough Lea Road - Worksop - (Gainsborough Central) - Barnetby. As I will have a Lincolnshire Day Ranger, if I buy a Barnetby - Worksop return can I start short at GBL as part of...

Slightly cheaper still is: BCE-DID SDR £14.10 DID-KEM SOS £20.55 with railcard SWI-DID SSS £6.55 with railcard When travelling to/from the Swindon area to places that are sort of near Reading, eg Bracknell, Basingstoke etc. it is often cheaper NOT to split at Reading.

PB garage has a people-carrier which takes drivers to/from Barnet Hospital, North Finchley or Waltham Cross as required (for the 263, 82, 217 respectively). Also some buses on all of these routes operate dead during the day (effectively using "spreadover" buses) carrying staff.

High time that a fast-track planning process is introduced for necessary infrastructure works. The country desperately needs houses, railways and (whisper it) roads, and as time goes on these needs will become more pressing. Too many schemes are bogged down for years or abandoned altogether...

The pertinent point to the OP is that a public service vehicle may stop to pick up or set down passengers at any place where it is safe to do so, regardless of whether a bus or coach "stop" is in existence, except where stopping (as opposed to waiting or parking) is expressly prohibited, such as...

You should be able to buy the Derbyshire Wayfarer from Doncaster. Swindon sell them without any trouble, and I'd imagine Doncaster sell them slightly more frequently. Same with the West Midlands tickets. If you look up the code on BRFares or railrover.org it will help if the clerk is unfamiliar...

Splitting at Sheffield, Burton, Leamington and Banbury (using Derbyshire Wayfarer for SHF-BUT) makes it £52.60, I think. It depends if by "flexible" if you can be bothered using trains that call at BUT. It may mean changing at Derby and/or Birmingham NS. Alternatively, split at DBY and BHM. If...

While researching the possibilities for a Swindon - Leeds journey this week (Tuesday, travelling in what would normally be the morning peak) NRE was showing "Off peak" tickets for both the XC and EC routes. I assume therefore that restrictions are lifted on XC as well, although I agree that that...

N(A)DF / NFF - No (apparent) defect found / No fault found The standard response of fitters to drivers' complaints of defects.