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But I travelled from Rochester to Faversham at the weekend. Rochester had no internet connectivity, so nobody could buy tickets (at the ticket office or the TVM) with cards. Presumably passengers with cards were recommended to get their tickets on the train or at their destination, but there...

For the purpose of this thread, "walk-on" has been used to mean "flexible", not actually to refer to whether the ticket is bought immediately before travel rather than in advance. I agree, of course, that either the full range of tickets should be available from a ticket office, or from a...

Souther's RDG is a great feature and there is little reason why their competitors don't offer it, for walk-up fares. It doesn't help the Advance situation, though. The Easyjet £50 upgrade fee is interesting, as is the proposal (in a later post) for an "Advance+" ticket price which allows...

I agree, andy. Oswyn's insurance suggestion is just over-complicating matters. As I said a few posts ago, if you want flexibility, pay for a flexible ticket. If you don't, then live with the conditions. The TOCs shouldn't change their way of doing business just to stop ill-informed people...

Agreed! It's always good to discuss and very boring if everyone holds exactly the same opinion on each topic. Whilst I know exactly what you mean, for the vast majority of people (including those who moan to the Guardian), they will save a lot of money by purchasing Advance tickets on the 9 out...

To be frank, I find your views on this matter quite odd. If you choose to book an Advance fare, a seat is reserved on that specific train for you alone. If you don't use it, it goes to waste. Nobody made you buy an Advance; flexible tickets are always available. And as you say, flexible...

"Buy anytime, travel off-peak". D'oh!

In any case, the fastest way to get between Euston and Kings Cross is to walk. There is no need for a tube connection. Walking connections are indisputably permitted between certain London Terminals (and, indeed certain non-London stations) as part of a through journey.

No, National Rail Enquiries does NOT say that the cheapest fare from Bridgeton to Kings Park is valid via Newton (Lanark), because it's not. That route is more than 3 miles longer than the shortest route and is therefore not valid. NRE suggests that if you want to travel via Newton, you need...

The first part of SickyNicky's explanation needs to be considered in full, before moving on to see whether mapped routes ADD any further routes. Mapped routes do not SUBTRACT routes which are already valid under the "shortest route" or "less than 3 miles longer than the shortest route" rules...

http://www.chilternrailways.co.uk/content/z-toolkit#Refunds The wording is even more generous when the full text is shown:

EC do not appear to apply the £22 minimum despite what it says on their site. I very often earn EC Reward Points on lower value transactions.

You can find them listed on www.brfares.com, entering 0072 as the destination. E.g. http://brfares.com/#fares?orig=GLD&dest=0072&rlc=

I think Mike's post explains pretty well why Raileasy levy charges. If you buy from a station ticket office, the marginal cost to them of selling a ticket is very low. The staff are there anyway. They are just incurring the cost of a few pieces of card.

No, if you've bought tickets already then they are subject to the current NRCOC. They can't impose changed conditions retrospectively.

But officially if you are travelling on the unreserved part of an Advance ticket, the guard should still check the reservation coupon. Otherwise you could be travelling at completely the wrong time - say BEFORE the reserved section even though it should be AFTER the reserved section.

I don't know how feasible it is to reverse at Strood, but replacing some of the Medway Valley line services would make sensible use of rolling stock. I'd even tolerate a slow stopping service along that part of the route if necessary to make the huge benefit of uninterrupted travel to Gatwick a...

If, in the unlikely event you were asked to produce the reservation to a guard on the New Street to Coseley journey, you would have a problem, as you wouldn't be on a legitimate part of the route that advance ticket allowed you to travel.

This is available on fares other than Advances. So it must be some sort of unpublished Easement if it's not an obvious published one.

Population per 2001 census: Ashford 58,936 Gillingham 99,773 Chatham 70,540 Rochester 27,000 Strood 33,182 Total 230,000 (approx) Hmm, obviously makes sense to start the train from Ashford rather than Gillingham (before proceeding to Maidstone, Tonbridge, etc. on either route)...