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Not just my impression - one of the writers for a certain magazine shared it as well. Such as a lone photographer at York, a bunch of three or four at Peterborough (see here - hardly looks a crowd!), no-one visible as we passed through Grantham, three photographers at King's Cross (one with a...

I suppose it matches the grey sky and also the "nothingy" image of National Express. Are they going to get John Major to do the official launch?

How are irregular passengers supposed to know about it, then?

No, it's entirely up to the operator which, if any, services it allows privs on. Possibly they are waiting to see whether GC staff will be allowed privs on other operators. Perhaps they are waiting to see how well patronised their trains are anyway. (No point in giving away free/discounted priv...

Oddly, the wifi stickers have been removed on the vehicles that I saw!

All franchise handovers are at 0200. However, the arrivals board at KGX was showing the final GNER arrivals this evening as National Express! Sadly the last southbound Anglo-Scottish service, the 1451 from Aberdeen to King Cross, on which I travelled from Berwick to Kings Cross, was formed of...

How does that tie in with the rumour (from another place) that says:

I was unaware that Plymouth, Exeter, Bath and Bristol were near London. Nearer, I suppose than New York, but hardly close by. ;)

I'm not sure who will own the GNER website after 9 December. Since no TOC website has ever been handed over to the successor franchisee, it will almost certainly be retained by GNER and, if I'm not much mistaken, could be kept going as competition for The Trainline. You don't have to be a TOC to...

They can't be recycled. The iron oxide of the stripe contaminates the material.

Don't quote me on it, but I'm fairly sure that there's no rule against it. Otherwise, if you were barred from catching trains that leave London before, say, 0930, you might not be able to catch a train from your overnight stop until after the noon deadline.

An interesting choice of words. At first sight you could be implying somewhere Exeter or westwards, but your mention that "Slough is on a permitted route between origin and destination" makes me think that you were, in fact, heading for somewhere like Birmingham. There might, therefore, have...

Yes, up to two months ago. I'll have to ask my erstwhile colleagues about that - should cause a riot if only some of the staff get it! Fortunately I never needed it as I get unlimited free first class travel on any TOC.

Given that this discussion was about the actions of FGW RPIs (ignoring the fact that there would be none of the RPI team on duty at Slough late in the evening) I think you will accept that his decision to break his journey at Slough could be open to question. Since the Conditions state that "If...

Have you ever thought that maybe it's some of the customers who make railway people cynical! Isn't it amazing how people are using rail in ever increasing numbers. We must be doing something right! No, as one of the people responsible for defining the rules and deciding how they should be...

Mobile phone tickets are fine for Advance Purchase where you have to travel in a particular seat on a particular train but otherwise they need a raft of anti-fraud precautions, the cost of which would make the cost of paper tickets look small beer.

You really should spend a day with a team of RPIs. You'd hear every excuse in the books and come out of the exercise with a much more cynical (and far more realistic) view of mankind. One of the things you will learn is the way in which people will distort the truth to portray themselves in...

That wasn't the case two months ago. There is, however, an arrangement whereby First staff can buy a £5 ticket for any journey on another First TOC. I don't remember what the Ts&Cs are as I never had to use it. Safeguarded staff - those who worked on the railway before April 1996 - do get...

Network Rail has no plans to introduce smartcards. Network Rail neither sells tickets nor installs or manages gatelines. To see when the newly-franchised TOCs will be introducing ITSO smartcards, scroll down here to see the DfT announcements about the franchise awards. Whether ITSO smartcards...

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