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    Railcard purchased tickets without Railcard discount - fined !

    I've now read 2 different posts (on Facebook) where people appear to have been fined because they purchased undiscounted, full price peak hour tickets, but did not remove the "railcard discount" when doing so. Which made zero difference to the overall fare at all, but they were fined by the...
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    Stagecoach in Stevenage

    Please move if there is a more appropriate heading. Looking at the Intalink website, it seems as if Stagecoach have gone cool(er) on the Stevenage to Bedford routes (9A-9D), now reducing the frequency for each route to two hourly. Buses rarely seemed that full, and often used double deckers (a...
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    Peterborough-Huntingdon-Cambridge (new) Whippet X1 service

    This service has been advertised on Whippet's website and social media recently. It looks like a non-stop Peterborough-Huntingdon-Cambridge coach service (no other stops) taking around 40 minutes for each leg or 80 minutes total. It's not a £3 single route, and the fares seem quite high in...
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    Disputes of dubious merit

    Please move this post elsewhere or delete if not deemed appropriate A few years ago I was travelling to work in London, which involved taking a train from Stevenage (where I live) to Finsbury Park, and changing onto the tube there to head northwards. I had a ticket that covered me for this...
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    Disused Stations Website ( https://www.disused-stations.org.uk/ )

    ...has been offline for some time now. Have the owners of the site given up (I wouldn't blame them, to be honest), or have the hosting bills proved too much ?
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    Jubilee Line Charing Cross Branch

    Just looking at the (very excellent) cartometro website, which has accurate mapping for the London Underground, where crossovers and sidings are https://cartometro.com/cartes/metro-tram-london/ When I was looking at the Jubilee line, I looked at how far beyond the station the sidings went (as...
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    Past bus routes in Manchester

    Moderator note: Split from existing thread https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/trivia-britains-strangest-bus-routes.203562/ I remember the 108 being a regular service is the 1970s and 1980s, and travelling to see Altrincham FC on it.
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    What's the longest timetabled wait you've encountered or experienced on a train?

    Something we occasionally get in the UK are a timetabled pause at the station, either for timekeeping purposes, or to allow connections to and from the train (and a crew change, on occasion). With long distance trains over 12 hours being something of a rarity here in the UK, my thoughts drift to...
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    Cross border ticket purchase

    Just been struggling to buy a ticket from Saarbruecken (D) to Forbach (F) online - it appears that this ticket - like many cross border tickets, is not (unless you buy an uber expensive ICE ticket) available on line. All the more annoying because the train my partner wants to catch actually...

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