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I take it we don't know who is bidding for that franchise when it comes up for renewal in a couple of years. It would be funny if Stagecoach won that one.

Indeed, it would be a good bit of natural selection at work

If you click on the banner and scroll down to the links near the bottom and click on them you should be able to find the information I mentioned. Bill Badger has already put a quote from it on here.

The SWT site says that the details for Sunday haven't been put into the journey planners yet and it also says the bus services around Wimbledon on Saturday haven't been put onto the planners yet either. I have no idea why it still isn't there though, given how close it now is to the time.

HH suggested that could be possible over on the SWT franchise thread.

If that is the case then why did they get Celia to re-record the announcements and not get "Amey woman" to do them instead? I personally think that "Amey woman" sounds better than these new re-recorded Celia announcements although I agree that I think both are better than the "Anne"...

Has anyone thought about doing this or would that not be appropriate in these situations? https://www.btp.police.uk/61016_text_service1.aspx

Thank you

I'm not so sure, from what I remember there is still a (fairly short) amount of time between touching out and touching back in again before it considers it as two separate journeys even at the same station. I can't remember how long it is though and it could just be certain stations.

I was just wondering if anyone knows what type of train is scheduled to form the 1331 London Victoria to Horsham via Epsom and Dorking on Friday (tomorrow technically). It's this train: http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/L06155/2017/02/03/advanced. It's headcode is 2E54. I was just wondering...

I wonder if that gives Stagecoach an advantage with the bidding. Given that is going on, given all the problems with GTR at the moment and given that Stagecoach (I think anyway) has run service quite well, surely it means giving it to Stagecoach is a safe option at the moment with all the other...

I was on my way back from Bournemouth for a day out last summer and the guard announced the train I was on as the "sunburn express". He said something along the lines of: Welcome aboard this 18:59 sunburn express service to London Waterloo. We will be calling at: Brockenhurst, Southampton...

I do and the seats weren't the worst part. The worst bit was how dirty and vandalised the trains were prior to their refurbishment to the point where the refurbishment made (the SWT ones at least) feel like brand new trains. I went on a 315 with these seats a while ago to remind myself of...

I didn't know they operated that one, I'm sure that's operated by South Gloucestershire Bus & Coach with a couple of extras run by someone else, unless it has changed recently.

I agree, they don't seem to show the physical effects these days but rather leave it to the imagination like in these videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy-sIfsW7tg, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQMtNGIVT90

I had a weird one the other night where I was on my way back from Bristol and the train came into platform 7 at Reading which is odd as I believe that is a country bound platform and this was a London bound train. Anyway I ended up just missing the Waterloo via Virginia Water and Richmond train...

Completely agree. I don't mind the odd comment on the side of the train as it is going along (on the destination display as the train is moving) or the odd comment from the guard but the main CIS at stations is really not the place for it. I just find Christmas to be the most depressing and...

Do they have to do this nonsense? I'm sure no other TOC is planning anything like this. I thought they stopped things like this after they pulled the same idiotic stunt for valentines day a couple of years ago but no, it seems they are going to do it again meaning I have to have the misery that...

Thanks for looking. I'm not coming back until January. Anyway what I did in the end was got a first class advance from Bristol to Woking and then got an ordinary single from Woking to Walton. As a result I was able to get 1st class for most of the journey and it was still £6.50 cheaper (it was...

I was looking at fares to Walton-on-Thames from Temple Meads and it was only giving me the anytime single for that train. Anyway, what seems to be happening is that the advance fares are still available to Woking like before so I can get it cheaper by split ticketing. Before though, NRE (and the...