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Something about the Uckfield line stock is going to need to be done sooner than later. Pre covid the Uckfield line platforms were extended and with extra units from Scotrail 9 & occasionally 10 car trains were run. During Covid someone made the decision to move all the Scotrail units to EMR...

If going battery electric it would make sense to buy the units for the other diesel lines in the south east at the same time

Bristol does have a very high student population. My daughter is at UWE, year 1 she was in for at least part of the day on 3 days, for 1st term in year 2 she was in for part of the day on 2 or 3 days a week (depending on week) but from January she’ll be in on part of 4 or 5 days...

I have an annual season ticket and never travel for leisure purposes. It’s almost certainly cheaper for me to muck around with a combination of other tickets as I am iften not in the office one day a week whether that’s WFH or on site. In addition holidays, multi day conferences etc mean that...

Relatively regularly units get stuck at Crowborough or indeed Uckfield or Ashurst because the line is shut somewhere, either because a lorry has hit a bridge or because of a signalling fault. So they sit at the station waiting for an hour or two, or it has been even longer. So you wouldn’t...

It’s strange how the Hastings Diesel is now much loved. I cant recall much love for them 30 years ago, when it was a lottery as to whether it would actually make the distance!

When does nice talk about doing something with the Uckfield line move to having to do something as the Class 171 fleet need replacing? They were built in 2003 I believe so are 21 years old. There are, I think, 24 cars and each car is 23m long. A peak service last week saw a 9 car train...

I know these buttons are tested regularly and indeed have attended station audits where they are tested. However I had to use one of the buttons a couple of months after coming across someone who had fallen on the footbridge. Whilst he had called an ambulance it hadn’t appeared, and we...

The 6.30ish from Uckfield to LBG and the 18.07 LBG to UCK are often standing room only between Hurst Green and London Bridge and if the train is short formed (as the 6.30ish) which it has been this week then people at Oxted do decide not to board it and wait for the next one. Obviously...

If you can demonstrate what tickets you have used and purchased then I would complain. Its more difficult if you cant prove what you bought to do the other legs

I know its not much! However its principle, if they are only going to compensate me on the basis of timetable of the day I'll claim every penny due, especially when it costs more to process!

A few weeks ago I travelled on a Thameslink train from Three Bridges to London Bridge. The train was over 15 minutes but not as much as 30 minutes late. I had bought a single Ticket from Three Bridges to East Croydon which cost £7.10. From East Croydon I was using my annual season ticket from...

what the data won’t show is the complete journey for those who have a season ticket to say London Terminals, and therefore if travelling to Birmingham, Bristol etc buy an additional ticket from London to that city. There journey will show as 2 separate trips. it will also of course show some...

If you come in to the terminal platforms in the first place as I do you come down a short escalator that you have to come down anyway. So tap exit, and straight back in again as I did today to fix the delay in case delay repay applied.

I would use Oyster between London Bridge and St Pancras. Tapping in and out at London Bridge is easy, out one barrier back in the adjacent one. However if a 48 minute change time between London Bridge and St P is required I’ll catch the 6.44 from Crowborough. This morning the 7.14 was late due...

I have a season ticket to do the Crowborough London Terminals bit and an Advance Single to do the Euston Telford bit. 1696230700 Thanks MCR and Hadders

I am going from Crowborough to Telford tomorrow, booked on the 9.10 from Euston. When I booked the ticket I could catch the 7.14 from Crowborough, and for some reason change at East Croydon to Victoria, then Victoria line to Euston. I say for some reason as I would route myself via London...

Ok so ultimately you can go Reading - Waterloo and then not do the Waterloo - Elephant bit? 1668025319 Can I delete the thread? :lol: Although going via Waterloo is not too much of a hardship

It appears that for £283.20 you can get a flexi season ticket from Reading to Elephant & Castle, a siginfi saving on Reading to London Terminals. It states “Valid only for travel via (changing trains or passing through) London Terminals, but not valid on Underground services.” What does this...

That was my assumption. Been promoted to shut him up!