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Have just purchased a flexi rover for use next week and have entered the first date box ready for its first use on Monday. Took special care to write neatly, then realised I had inadvertantly used blue ink when it should (according to one line I managed to find on the NR website) be black...

That would be the 16:56 to MAI (the only GW terminator, and also the only GW train that OP tickets to Maidenhead are valid on), which seems to be OK for OP tickets, then connect to 1D76 (17:20 PAD-DID, which although barred from London seems to accept MAI-RDG OP tickets) ten minutes later. Yes...

Although never quoted as such, the previous restrictions (point of combined FGW broadly up to the end of HSTs) were, in essence, barring all trains which were first stop Reading (historic Intercity trains) but allowing any others (historic NSE trains). This meant you could still use a few of the...

Wheelchair users who remain in their chairs for their journey are entitled to discounts on their tickets, you can not buy these discounted tickets online or from TVMs, so have to use the ticket office.

Further to this, GWR have banned off peak (from within the London Travelcard area) tickets from all bar one of their services (fast line and relief line) between 1600 and 1905- the ONLY Great Western service you can use in this time with an off peak ticket is the 1850 Didcot, so any Off Peak...

Both had worked up from Felixstowe, having left there in the early hours, both were running early and both were within an hour of their destinations in the Sheffield area.

Making further calls in the EL trains makes for an even longer journey for customers on these trains from Twyford and Maidenhead, who have aready seen a downgrade in service when the 345s took over.

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No, rail fares should not prohibit break of journey, and to add to this with an Advance the customer should be able to choose the services for each leg of their journey, so if they need a longer break in an interchange station en route (for personal needs or otherwise).

Thats actually not too bad a proposal, taking some of the Paddington terminators to better use. Would need some mega chord to the WLL near Scrubbs Lane but probably doable. Be interesting then what to do between Willesden and Euston (shuttle from the bay maybe) but the distribution of the local...

Wiring the rest of the Birmingham area is probably only going to be achieved as part of a "Big Bang" scheme like we have seen in Scotland with the Central Belt, where the associated routes were added on to the original EGIP project. With the Snow Hill network being pretty integrated and...

Indeed, but how many people ever read the NRCOC, something that they agree to every time they agree to purchase a ticket? (Not asking you personally Bletchleyite, just adding to the discussion!)

Thames branches services will never operate through the core so there is absolutely no reason why they should be moved to be part of the Elizabeth Line Operator. "Elizabeth Line" should refer purely to the core working, not any other random branches that it happens to connect with. If...

There are many types of ticket transaction which presently can not be performed by online platforms or self service machines, particularly those involving travel for disabled customers, particularly wheelchair users. Online booking engines will not let you reserve wheelchair (or designated...

Overall looks pretty positive in terms of the changes proposed. Stafford particularly appears to benefit. Interesting how the 3ph to Birmingham is recast to create two express as core, with the third picking up the intermediate calls. Am actually suprised in a way that they havent proposed...

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Doubt it, these services rely on being as close to 4h30 as they can, and additional calls south of Warrington (which can be picked up by other services) will extend these journeys somewhat. Southbound, the Blackpool services follow the Glasgow fasts twenty minutes later from Preston to...

At this moment in time, I think the notional old train/new split is, as others have said, pretty much aligned with the time of privatisation. The well documented 1,064 day hiatus in new train orders reinforces this split, at a time when designs moved forward and new manufacturers came into...

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