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So for some stations there are no new restrictions and there are actually fare reductions for weekend Super Off Peak fares while for others, like Fareham near me, the fares remain the same. It is just that restrictions now apply. How confusing. Even too confusing for its own good, I would...

A highly misleading reply. While it is technically correct that weekend Super Off Peak fares are cheaper than daily Off Peak fares, this has always been the case. They need to compare like with like. What they fail to mention is: a) weekend Super Off Peak fares are exactly the same as the...

... which is temporary and which I suspect is a marketing ploy to take the edge off the permanent 20% increase which many people will experience at the weekends.

To compound the confusion if you go onto the 'National rail' website and try and book a ticket, the options between 'Peak' and 'Off Peak' are highly confusing. For example. A Day Return from Southampton Parkway to Waterloo arriving after 12:00 will show you the Super Off Peak fare (although...

With these new rules only applying to journies east of Brockenhurst on the SWML, a Day Return from Brockenhurst is now cheaper than a Day Return from Southampton Central if you travel in the 'Off Peak' periods. Albeit on a smaller scale, SWT have now introduced a situation similar to...

I thought CTV was purely for 'safety' purposes as per the announcements not to detect when and where people get on and off for ticket revenue checks. It is a slippery slope if we are going that path.

OK thanks. I hadn't spotted those. I'm happy for the moderator to delete this whole thread if he chooses.

At the beginning of January SWT introduced Off-Peak fares at certain times of the day on Saturday, Sundays and Bank holidays. Until then Super Off-Peak fares were applicable all day. The effect of this is that day returns have increased by 20% if you travel up to London in the morning and back...

If a traveller for London genuinely wants to board a train at Lancaster but alight at Preston on the way back because it suits him better, which ticket should he buy if travelling at times when 'off peak' tickets are valid to/from Lancaster but not to/from Preston. a) Anytime return from Preston...

I am glad that someone else has written this, not me. Indeed I agree that Anytime fares are there for the business traveller. In effect that is saying that for a large number people, dare I say 'most', train travel is effectively banned for them at certain times of the day. That includes me...

I can't sit here and rewrite the West Coast fares manual. Obviously. However I think that I am quite entitled to air an opinion that being charged £175.50 for a one way fare from Preston to London (and double for a return) if you wish or need to travel at certain times of the day is a figure...

Perhaps the root of the problem lies with the fact that the Preston fare more resembles a telephone number.

To invert my previous post to use the outbound journey, I presume that most people would find the following examples quite acceptable: a) Buying a ticket from Manchester Piccadilly to Euston but actually boarding at Stockport b) Buying a ticket from Glasgow Central to Euston but actually...

But the same 'cliff edge' fare structure exists if northbound is the outward journey. If someone travelling northbound one evening for business the next day or for a weekend away, there is no 'offpeak' return to Preston on the 16:30 and 17:30 (and possibly others). However offpeak return is...

Often it is the case that your end destination lies between two stations. Which station you get off at and return from could vary depending on, say, where it is convenient for someone to pick you up or drop you off. This has happened to me in the past. Common sense then says that if you buy a...

As reported in today's papers: Top 10 most expensive train station car parks in the UK are: Reading - £23.70 Southampton Airport Parkway - £15 Guildford - £14.50 Brighton - £13.10 Ebbsfleet - £12.60 Coventry - £12 Macclesfield - £12 Milton Keynes - £10.80 Billericay - £10.60...

I hope it never rains in Oxford. Not much shelter there. ;)

With all the changes around, I've lost track of some of the basics. Can someone refresh me as to when it is expected that timetabled EMU services will run between -- Paddington and Didcot ? (Dec 2017 ?) -- Paddington and Newbury ? (Dec 2018 ?) Thanks

Winchester, no tunnels there. Micheldever perhaps you mean up the line a bit. Then the tunnel is probably 400 metres or more from the platform.

A couple of years ago Network Rail published proposals for closing or bridging all level crossings between Hitchin and Doncaster. There were sectional documents for each county affected. All seems to have gone quiet. I read somewhere that Network Rail may have dropped the idea, but I don't...