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Mod Note: Posts #1 - #15 originally in this thread. Thinking back to what felt like a "so near, yet so far" experience many years ago, when my better half was entitled to travel passes, is this to do with the idea that a partner is only eligible if either you are married (or, I guess, now, in a...

Mod Note: Posts #1 - #24 originally in this thread. I think what bothers me, assuming the story is all truthful and accurate, is that TOC have been able to use such woefully weak evidence of identity to secure a criminal conviction, which has now escalated to an offence against the courts and...

This is just a check, really. Am I correct in saying that going out of London towards Amersham the fares are entirely from the TfL zonal scheme, including whether any Chiltern services are used? So, for example, if I wanted to go from Liverpool Street to Uxbridge, using Oyster for argument's...

Bit of a silly one, this, almost at the "trivia" level, but it came up in a conversation in the pub yesterday afternoon. Simple question: do the driver and guard of a train need a travel ticket when they are working a particular train? I did wonder if one way round the issue, although I presume...

I have booked a journey using the DB website for myself and a friend from Germany via Brussels to St Pancras, using the "London Special" tickets or whatever they are called these days. All fine and the price pretty good, except that I got to the end of the booking without my chum's name being...

A chum has asked how to find the price of a Tamworth to Bingham season, which appears not to have a fare set. Is the answer to simply make a request at a ticket office, or is it more involved than that?

A friend travels home to Godalming after post-work trips to the pub on the 23.15 Waterloo - Portsmouth Harbour. Apparently it always a single 5 car and packed to standing - he says 20+ per coach without seats - from Clapham Junction. Can anyone help him with his question as to why it's not...

This has probably been asked but I can't find a suitable thread and and Google hasn't been my friend. Question, more or less as stated: how does a track circuit actuator prevent a train being "lost" when it might fail to operate a track circuit correctly, e.g. owing to dirty rails etc. You can...

I ask this question as a result of being told about this train yesterday: http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/C80848/2015/03/28/advanced It's the 05.10 Nottingham - Spalding, which goes via Grantham and Peterborough, where it reverses. It seems it left on time but was then turned back fairly...

This is a question arising from my observations, looking out of the window, of HSTs approaching Didcot on the down main, taking the 70 mph crossovers to the down relief and then turning onto the avoiding line to head towards Oxford. I am interested in why different drivers begin to slow down...

Simple question: can anyone find a reason why there are no 1st Advance fares on the Nottingham - Luton flow? They are available to Bedford and London on the same trains...

Various people have obliquely referred to a new incarnation of the routeing guide, implying that there will be some kind of fundemental change to the way it works. Is anyone able to say a bit more about what this will entail? Thanks in advance to those of you "in the know."

When Notts County Council decided to make me redundant last year I decided that it was time for a break and I am currently treating myself to a bit of full-time education. Thus I have a YP railcard, in spite of my age being somewhat north of 26. Simple question that does not seem to be clear...

Hello All, I have lost track of the details of this issue so would be grateful for advice... As far as I can tell: -- If I look on BRFares.com, which I presume is the Avantix fares database, it appears that for an Off-Peak Return I may break my journey overnight **If I wish** and I must...

Hello All, I hope to do the above journey shortly but the journey planners come up with very few options, just a couple involving a walk at New Mills or a train that calls at Hazel Grove and Chinley, and nothing much in the morning. Otherwise it's nothing found or the NRE 'two tickets...

Hello all, I have just been to the booking office at my local station, Beeston, and asked to buy: -- A cheap day single from London to Tonbridge -- A cheap day return from Tonbridge to Milford route not London -- An excess fare to allow me to return from Milford via London The chappie...

Hello All, I am travelling from Beeston to Exeter on Sat 28 May, which is the Bank Holiday weekend. Using the normal timetable I would go: Beeston 06.43, Derby 07.01/07.25, Exeter 10.46. However, on that day the line is closed between Derby and Tamworth. When I checked the times, the 07.25...

If I may just check something... I think this has been discussed previously but I haven't managed to locate the thread(s). Is it the case that the normal rules apply for a one-way excess from a "Not valid on HS1" return ticket to "Plus high speed"? I think those other discussions were...

This is one asked by a chum... He has two advance singles that between them give him a return trip from Nottingham to London and cost about £80. He wants to know if he can excess these tickets to an off-peak return - this is £77.50 so only the admin fee to pay - and then put that off-peak return...

Hello All, From Nottingham to London I can buy a Weekender, which allows outward travel on Fri/Sat and return on Sat/Sun/Mon/Tue by any train, but only via Grantham. It costs £68.50. What would be the excess fare if I wished to travel one way via the MML? Assume I am travelling in super...