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Wester Hailes? Of that place = hail Side of Tees = es The Midlands is wester than Teeside (stretching it a bit here!)

Pokesdown?

Platform and station building areas have been cleared and piling work done by the looks of it. That's about it but it does look like work is active at last (contractors vans and equipment around last weekend), and the housing developments around it are also going up quickly. End of the year...

NRE says 32 minutes for Reading-Henley which certainly takes me less than half an hour by bike. Blaenau Ffestiniog - Porthmadog also, but possibly only in that direction unless you insist on National Rail only!

Sent you a PM with one option - not as cheap but more flexible.

I wasn't sure whether to choose option 1 or 3 - went for 3 in the end although I don't have a car. Prior to lockdown I used the train to commute at least part of the time (often would cycle in one direction and train the other in order to make it in time for school pick ups/drop offs). Not been...

Apologies if this has been covered extensively (I've not been up to speed with railway matters for some time), but your comment prompted me to dip into the NRCoT - indeed Condition 6 does indeed read this way to me. I'm sure that the old NRCoC was worded along the lines of "if the ticket you...

This is clearly not the case - for example TVMs won't offer Off Peak tickets before a certain time, and don't necessarily offer all tickets at all. TVMs at Reading for example don't sell Super Off Peak Day tickets to many SWT stations despite there being direct services and these usually being...

A Manchester-Southampton Route:+Via London ticket would be valid for this (£123.20 Off Peak Return). Wimbledon is on a permitted route between London and Southampton and break of journey is permitted. On resuming your journey you'd need to travel westwards and change at (usually) Woking, rather...

I noticed that Reading Green Park is shown on the staff TMS displays at Reading already - does anyone know when construction is planned to start (if not already?)

I think that was based on my getting (or not) discounts which aligned with intercity rather than TV performance. Oxford I don’t know as I only commuted from London for about a year (on a Oxford-London Travelcard). Certainly won’t cause any trouble and is quite well known - I’ve overheard people...

I'd start with the road network - make driving seen as a privelige rather than a right. Compulsory speed checks, way more red light cameras and disqualification rather than some points or a twenty quid fine after being involved in 2+ potentially fatal incidents. With 10 to 20% of the population...

Well, that's depressing though not surprising with the all-bimode order. I'm surprised about Oxford though, I was vaguely aware that there are problems but won't this mean more IEPs will be required for the fasts, which could lead to problems elsewhere? I guess the proposed 4 tph Bristols could...

Plenty of electric locos in Portugal! Andorra? Or (slightly) more seriously, Iceland haven't had any. Surprisingly even Canada has used electric locomotives.

Via Reading is fine. Curious that the CDR and SVR are such poor value in comparison on this flow.

As MikeWh says, it depends on whether your interpretation of "the last station at which one Ticket is valid..." refers to the stations on the route taken, or the stations valid individually on each ticket. I believe the former makes more sense and is consistent with the previous meaning. I see...

No longer fully asleep around 4.30 and 5.30 (kids). Get up around 6. Wake up some time between 8 and never.

For a day return, there's a small saving to be had splitting at Bristol, which has the side effect of allowing Groupsave (both GWR priced).

(IANAL) If they drop the matter, then you can't make them take you to court - you would have to do so yourself. Finding a case to do so would be difficult in most cases I imagine. If by "settle out of court" you mean requesting a financial settlement, then you are of course within your...

On the GWML it's certainly quieter in the morning (down direction); much busier in the afternoon (up).