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I do think it's missing the point, reintroducing services from Tonbridge to Gatwick. If it is to be worthwhile, the services should start at Gillingham, run through to Strood, and then via Tonbridge and Redhill to Gatwick. Whilst Maidstone has a reasonable population, far more potential...

If the primary issue is discrimination against LM, then surely the best route is to complain to LM themselves that a Virgin station is refusing to sell their tickets, or failing to offer the choice on journeys where there is a choice and LM is cheaper. This is a breach of the rules and I would...

It's not hard to think of such an organisation ... it's called Excel Parking and operates paid-for car parks with very small print signs saying that it's necessary to Pay and Display. It was on Watchdog a week or so ago. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/watchdog/2012/04/excel_parking.html

So, it would have been cheaper to buy a separate travelcard at the full adult off-peak rate of £7, instead of £7.60 for the railcard discounted equivalent for both of you. Except that you are buying the tickets using Tesco vouchers, which you couldn't do if you wanted to buy a standalone...

I think that the suggestion of a hanging sign pointing from the "corridor" to the ticket office would suffice very well indeed.

This really is something that ought to be taken more seriously by operators. I travel on a route which takes an INCREDIBLY tortuous route, with lots of left/right/right/left turns short distances apart. It's really slow going because of the multiple junctions, parked cars, etc., and at some...

Ah! That is very useful. I am glad that I normally use a WebTIS powered site, in that case. :)

Yes, Mike, I can see your point. And thanks so much, table38, for posting the video. :D

Well, surely either the machines are permanently online (in which case it should be instantaneous) or offline with periodic connections to update (in which case it might only be updated every few hours). It wouldn't surprise me if they were originally implemented within periodic connection, but...

Not exactly the most well disguised ticket office: http://paulbigland.zenfolio.com/p288513101/h12a0bd85#h12a0bd85

This is a pretty small, narrow, station from what I can see. And the ticket office is on the left hand side, as you walk out of the single platform. Whilst the OP says it couldn't be seen, I find that hard to understand as it's on the main passageway on the way out of the station. So...

Your extraopolation doesn't make sense, whereas mine does! NRCOC clearly states that a combination of tickets may be used for a journey. The Advance ticket guidance issued to TOC staff is clear that the normal conditions applicable to Advance tickets are disapplied, if the customer suffers...

This old Railforums thread: http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=32311 suggests that there isn't an issue when going from a delayed non-Advance leg to an Advance leg. By extrapolation, I'd suggest that this also should apply therefore to going from a delayed non-Advance leg to another...

Fair enough, if that's what happened. But in this case, it was "Walk past the open ticket office, which happens to be in a different place to where it used to be, attempt to buy a ticket at the ticket machine and give up on that, then walk to the station exit and THEN finally ask a member of...

The FAQ is not so hot. Yes, but of course advances have less flexibility. This section is complete tosh. If you have two offpeak tickets, and a delay means that you have to make your second leg on a train which is not valid with an offpeak ticket, that is not your problem. To be fair, this is...

Thanks for keeping us informed, LH. It's so annoying when people swoop in, ask questions, take the advice (or even ignore it!) and never come back to update us.

My feedback is that (a) it's very quick and (b) it provides a sensible split for a local journey. It is clever than some split generating software, in that it is actually timetable based. Other software can suggest theoretically cheaper splits but which are in practice impossible (or very...

Preferably someone knowledgeable who lives in the vicinity of a Northern station. It wouldn't look very sensible coming from the deep South East of England! :)

I would think that clarifying this issue with Northern* would be very helpful indeed. It is Northern's fault that they have chosen to program their ticket machines so it is impossible to buy the correct ticket. There is a very simple solution, which is permitting customers to buy tickets "the...

Or where there are fares missing from the fares structure - e.g. I use the return portion (only) of tickets where there is no equivalent super offpeak single fare in the return direction, and this is totally legitimate. (Sometimes this makes sense when in one direction a "through" Advance...