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I had to travel from Euston to Hemel and back to Watford Junction yesterday. I left Euston at about 13:30 and left Hemel on the 15:05. I have an annual season ticket that covers Zones 1-8 + Watford (actually 123456789 on my record card) so I purchased a Watford to Hemel day return from the...

Interesting one last night. Got the 17:30 Euston to Watford Train. I was in the rear 4 cars. Unusually it stopped on the fast platform at H&W then the same at Bushey. The train stopped for about a minute without opening the doors (on our section at least), after that there was an announcement...

Too intrusive? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/03/sky_ads_pushed_direct_into_your_brain/ Good old Rupe, always one step ahead in the race to be the most disliked person you can think of... :lol:

http://designtaxi.com/news/357722/Beautiful-Graphic-Symbols-That-Represent-UK-s-Major-Metro-Stations/ What do people think? I rather like them, especially Euston, Edinburgh Waverley and Manchester. Were they widely used, and are these still in use anywhere? I must confess I haven't noticed...

Another thread on here got me thinking. Soon I'm going to be moving and my local station will be Bushey and/or Watford High Street. However, every once in a while I'll be travelling down to Shepherds Bush. By the looks of it the quickest way will be to go up to Watford Junction and then the...

I was on the Virgin service between Brum and Watford recently and it got me thinking. When Virgin services are set-down only at Watford junction, my Oyster card is not valid from Watford Junction into Euston. However, if I were travelling on the same service from say Milton Keynes into Euston...

I travel on the Southern Service that comes down from Watford through to Clapham Junction and beyond quite regularly and every time I notice the enormous gates across another set of tracks spurring off the line I travel on. The double track that runs through them is electrified, and seems to...

I got my free tickets through recently from LM after their issues before Christmas. I'd like to use at least one of the tickets seeing how far around the London Midland network I can go in one day. I've been using Redspotted hanky to try to give me some sort of schedule, but I can't figure...

You'll be able to get free wifi at all stations that use 'The Cloud' until 24th April. Apparently this is part of Microsoft's bid to get people to subscribe to Office 365. Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/27/ms_the_cloud/ Not bad!

I'm going to a friend's wedding and I'm traveling down on the Fri 10th May and back up on the Sun 12th May. I need to be fairly flexible on the 12th as when I will be traveling depends on how bad my hangover is. However, on Friday I need to get down there after 2pm but before 5pm and can take...

Couldn't figure out whether this should go into the trains section or stations section, so I thought what the hell and put it here! Sometimes, when I get the train to work, the train pulls into platform 17 at Euston. For those that don't know, platform 17 sits on its own, with platform on...

A friend introduced me to London Walks at www.walks.com. We did one called Hidden London which was a very interesting walk through the city down side alleys and going to places you wouldn't find on your own, including the only house in the city of London with a garden! The guide was excellent...

I've got an outstanding delay repay for LM from the middle of November. I've sent a gentle reminder but haven't had any response. Does anyone know if LM are particularly backed up on delay repays at the moment? I know they don't have many drivers right now, is their back office similarly...

I had a lovely trip to Birmingham with some friends this weekend, however we fell victim to the fact that LM have about 7 train drivers and as a result our 10:13 train was cancelled. We got the 10:46 after spending 30minutes in the excellent Doric Arch pub. I filled out the delay repay...

Before I joined this forum, and dicovered the joys of Byelaw 18, I got caught at TfL run station without a ticket. I had travelled on Southern's service which runs from Milton Keynes down to Croydon. Now in this instance I successfully managed to argue my way out of the PF and just bought the...

There's no reason for TfL to do this. They have nothing to gain in helping a traveller avoid a penalty fare.

Is there anywhere that sets out a minimum time between announcing the platform and the train leaving? There was a situation last week where the platform at Euston was announced less than 2 minutes before the train left. The dispatcher was already blowing his whistle when I got to the...

I like to read Wikipedia every day and saw that it's the anniversary of the Tōkaidō Shinkansen line, started in 1964 in time for the Tokyo Olympics. Article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C5%8Dkaid%C5%8D_Shinkansen I went to Japan a few years ago and got a 3 week travel pass for the...

I travel everyday from Euston and very occasionally the LM train I use leaves from a platform (say Platform 12) that shares a ramp with a Virgin Train. Sometimes there are VT ticket checkers on the ramp. Now, if I'm gettting the LM train on the other platform do the VT ticket inspectors have...

Had an interesting one last night. I went out with some friends and got to the station to go home and all the barriers were open and showing red lights. Loads of people were trying to touch in with their Oysters and the machines weren't having any of it. Now it's not an issue for me because I...