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Having looked through it now, the gist seems to be: Chester and North Wales line no longer valid via Warrington Stoke-on-Trent no longer valid via Crewe The Crewe and Rugeley bits, I can't see what's prohibited, which probably means it's some circular journey in the West Midlands that few...

Latest data dump Currently fishing through the West Coast stuff, as what actual routes are now prohibited isn't easy to see

*reads through the Northampton to Euston "mini" timetable* Running 20 coaches (across two trains) on the 17:13, 17:46 and 18:13 departures from Euston? This is good. Expecting the commuters of Wolverton, Milton Keynes and Leighton Buzzard to cram into four coaches of the 07:38 from...

First Class on the West Coast where Virgin own the fare flow is priced at Standard X 1.5. Unfortunately it's 1.5 of the obscenely high Anytime fares.

New dataset arrived today Not commenting on the changes made. But if 4 easements are to be added, how about getting rid of the 14 easements related to specifc dates and specific engineering work that have long since passed?

I'm referring to Anytime fares that are 1:1 ratio with the weekly season, just to get that capped at 2:1 would be serious progress. How can Off-Peak rise beyond Anytime where Anytime is regulated?

There is a simple solution to all of this. That is for the government to declare that the peak/unrestricted fare is the government regulated fare in all cases, with enforcement of that rule to begin immediately. Even at it's most lenient interpretation, these ridiculous long-distance prices...

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As CrossCountry briefed it, all easements will be withdrawn

Am I the only one thinking that when Doddle has enough stores open in the right places, those trolley stores would be perfect for sending parcels by rail between offices? Granted it would probably be limited to ends of route, but better than nothing.

Perhaps that didn't come out right. Yes, the entire Chiltern route through to Kidderminster will be valid. The brief didn't mention changes to the Network Railcard except to say the current validity on Virgin would not be affected. No word on if there will be the same expansion or not.

The ATOC brief was emailed to us this morning. The expanded area is as follows: The lines of Anglia north of Manningtree and east of Cambridge and Ely. West Coast Main Line up to Stafford. Lines of the West Midlands bounded by Stafford, Shrewsbury and Worcester. But NOT the Coventry -...

The only detail about Gold Card area I've picked up so far has been from a CrossCountry Retail Brief a month back, which stated that while validity on Banbury - Bournemouth will be retained, the discount will not be valid on CrossCountry from Stansted - Ely

Based on journey time and service frequency, I can't see anyone taking those routes outside of disruption or engineering. Going via Birmingham adds about 30 minutes to the journey time and using the Marston Vale adds more changes, which puts a lot of people off. As for the fares. To make...

Apologies if I'm late to the party, but I noticed these on the list These act to remove the circular route to Loughborough via Tamworth and Derby, which is currently permitted by fare check (hopefully will be sorted in January). These do likewise for Melton Mowbray via Birmingham.

Thought I'd give this thread an update as Doddle had their official launch at Waterloo this week http://www.retailtimes.co.uk/new-service-doddle-launches-deliveries-returns-shop-waterloo-station/ http://www.doddle.it/locations According to their website they have 6 locations open now...

The London Midland Only fares for Off-Peak Day Return and Off-Peak Travelcard were inherited from Silverlink and can be traced as far back as 2001, as Silverlink's press release at the time showed http://web.archive.org/web/20020606105317/http://www.silverlink-trains.com/about/index.html (Go...

1646 Euston to Crewe was indeed horrendous at the time, as it was four coaches. I went on it once during that period and swore "never again". Since then it's been bumped up to eight coaches and there's plenty of room. Even changing the restrictions to make off-peak tickets to Milton Keynes...

What is ludicrous is not that these flows have day returns, but that flows of similar mileage but much faster and frequent service don't.

Trainline complaining to the ASA about......well, anything really. That would be the pot calling the kettle black https://www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Trainline+Advertising+Standards