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Mine is checked regularly. But I find it can depend on the times. Tickets are rarely checked on fully peak trains - there is no way to walk through them. I travel on Thameslink north of London. I'm often travelling on trains that cut-across the 9.30am peak/off-peak divide. These are regularly...

The service I use doesn't have request stops :p

It varies hugely by line and mobile operator at the moment. Some operators provide pretty good coverage on the circle/district - the line is shallow. You'll often see people chatting on their phones. From memory neither the New York or Paris systems are particularly deep with only a few...

Even thought TfL isn't privatised, National Rail is. One being public, the other being a fragmented private system adds to them not working well together. There are 'difficult' staff across TfL (LU and buses especially) and some of the gate staff at various NR stations in London.

http://www.busway.net is the worst I've found.

1) Because it was already scanned at the station 2) Because someone else has already checked it 3) If I'm working 12+ hour days and the train has only added to that by literally not having been on time all week, the journey is an opportunity to grab a tiny little extra bit of much needed sleep...

I guess it also reflects the stage the build is at. It's still ages away from being in service. So rolling stock and the service etc. would be further way. The rolling stock contract was only awarded earlier this year. The cross rail website has a lot more information for anyone interests in...

*sighs* seen her at Blackfriars this week I'd rather money was spent on ticket machines that actually sold a better range of ticket types (extensions etc.)

All three episode have been good. I agree the latter two have been better balanced in terms of people stories. The stories they have had have been interesting - the guy who had been tunnelling for 50 years, the ones doing their first job etc. - the passion they all show is part of the interest...

The Mail broke the story, not the Echo.

Barriers at Luton used to routinely block my season ticket although it went out to Leagrave. Am slightly surprised ticket worked for EMT barriers - FCC tickets aren't necessarily valid on EMT.

I was getting a clipper from Bankside to North Greenwich and we had to wait for two boats before getting a space. This weekend was apparently extra-busy because of Robbie Williams concert and a nice sunny day.

1) check your email spam folder 2) check whether you received an auto-response/maximum timescale. 3) if they exceed the timescale for a reply, forward the email to them again, copying in travel watch/passenger focus

Depressing. About 13% of net pay. Use of taxi some days (raining, late night etc.) puts it up more. For comparison, mortgage is 24% of net pay.

You can *usually* work it out. Overhead information will say roughly where First Class is. And it's unusual for back of the first four and front of the last four to both be first class. So stand in the middle for those trains and you're normally ok. If the train is busy tho, stickers and...

No, but in such circumstances, it could explain the 'wrong' decision being made in haste.

Fair cop - topping up your Oyster once you got off the train wouldn't have resulted in you paying your fare, cos you hadn't tapped in? Albeit, it becomes more borderline if there was a hint that a series of trains rather than just one were delayed.

Particularly on this FCC line, around half of their first-class sections are permanently declassified. So the layout of the seating and the doors isn't the only marker.

More likely to be Parliament's push against the increase in paid-for ATMs.

There is no space to extend from Bank in any other direction. The underground tends to follow the roads as a significant number of the buildings extend underground in that area for historic reasons usually revolving around gold/cash vaults. DynamicSpirit's plan is a sensible Waterloo outward...