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Price tickets in Asda are ridiculous in ALL parts of the shop. I quite literally have to kneel on the floor to read prices of items on the bottom shelf. My eyesight is no worse than most people who wear glasses. Aso, Asda and Tesco are both good at blurring (!) the distinction between price...

I hope this is clearing the air a bit, and also making us all think about how to ensure we don't come across as saying something we don't mean to. There are enough times when we DO mean to make a point strongly, without letting minor criticisms come across as major ones, or ill-thought-out...

It's great that Southern are working to simplify things, but a statement like "Southern would be content with people going via Brighton" isn't really helpful to someone choosing which ticket to buy. Most people are apprehensive of trouble with gateline staff and train guards, and we're all...

Yes, when the sheffield tram started, there were separate ticket machines AND validating machines on the platforms. You bought a ticket and then immediately stuck it in the validator to cancel it before you got on the tram. There were no conductors on the trams, the idea was that if an RPI...

Like the River Pageant on Sunday. Oops!

Fair enough. But you can guess that my interpretation is "I waited 15 minutes and the seat was clearly unoccupied. There is no dining car on this train. I have therefore played the game fairly. If I had known the seat was occupied, I could have sat elsewhere. Now, however, all other seats...

My first impression was correct, then. Not gone completely doolally, yet! With the national timetable showing first class, I can see a few "five pound" arguments on busy days when posh bloke on a first class ticket from London asks the guard to evict an oik to cattle class so he can rest his...

I must get to the bottom of it. I've never travelled on an excessed ticket. Never occurred to me before I joined this forum. I always used to resent that out and back was cheaper than singles (when doing a linear hike, say, I felt that not having to get back to a car was the key advantage of...

I'd like a "calculable" fare based (slidingly) on per-leg mileage, too. Split ticketing would never be worth bothering with, no-one would mind you stopping short, and circular journeys would be no dearer than out and back. The trouble is that TOCs will always want to offer lower prices (with...

Some excesses are still "half" when it's just the return leg, aren't they? Is it OffRoute, rather than OverDistance ones? Or do they all double up now?

You can tell if you're on a joiner or splitter about 10 mins before Crianlarich, when some people start feverishly playing with fag packets and look like they are ready to fling themselves out of their seats at the first squeal of a brake.

That's not all that dim. Coaches do (or did) "m" tickets where you download (and show to the driver's scanner) a bar code picture on your mobile. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- Part of the patter of the cavern guides at Castleton is how people (they usually say "Americans") ask...

I know you'll think I'm a traitor, but I went to Wick by BUS from Thurso, so I didn't see the station. By the way, I've just downloaded the PDF national timetable and it shows first class available between Inverness and Thurso!?! This surprised me ..... The local timetable says "no first...

Would the guard back up a "late claimer" ? Not very fair on the person who gets turfed out into standing room only, is it ?

A pure price per mile would either make short journeys very cheap or long journeys out of the question for leisure use. Isn't it the case that for most forms of transport a sliding scale is used, with price per mile falling with longer journeys? The formula is probably based on square roots or...

Are there published restrictions to the Olympic Travelcards saying "Only valid when travelling between an Olympic event (as shown on the accompanying Olympic event icket) and XXX". If so, what is XXX ?

You're right. Forgot about them -and I was in there on Sunday. Lovely pint of Holts. Disguised as a United Fan, of course (ie in my Pearly King outfit).

I'll try not to go off on one again about a so-called "reservation" system that is actually a "bounce unsuspecting passeger from their originally unreserved seat just when all other seats are now taken" system! But aren't Voyagers the ones with the almost incessant "beepity beeep" alarm that...

Just back from Thurso and Wick. Here are a few points I thought were interesting. - Thurzo, not Thursso. - Train from Inverness has no advertised first class, but does have declassified first class seats (better because you get a curtain and a power point). Coffee is dire (take along a...

Not sure why you think it's other people's duty to earn your respect. Perhaps it's your duty to be considerate to others who are not as assertive as you, especially these days when people are wary of challenging strangers because they can't tell who will respond positively (as I'm sure you...