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Crossing the Solent should get a bit easier from next month with the new Red Funnel vessel Red Kestrel which carries 12 HGVs - should be able to carry a railway carriage or 2.

I assume you are referring to a SWR Saturday service for a few weeks. I also don't think a vintage bus is quite what was promised. Large amounts of private and public money has been spent on getting this link working. There were to be a couple of years of regular and increasing trial services...

So is this to be yet another year with no Wareham services? It is becoming a bit repetitive.

This has great potential. Although Norwood Junction should be more correctly named North East Croydon, with Thornton Heath being renamed North Croydon and Selhurst being renamed North North East Croydon. This should eliminate a lot of confusion by passengers, as all they will need is a compass!

The vote is not valid because so many candidates are missing. Even Steven Norris is missing. He may not have been the worst, but someone may want to do so purely on the basis of his autobiography. Isherwood may have wanted to

No question about it: Barbara Castle

So why should these flexible advance purchase tickets be limited to football supporters? They should be available to everyone.

So why does anyone ever buy a ticket for travelling in Scotland if they can't be prosecuted?

Thanks for the advice. I will do this in future.

Thanks everyone for your help. I will ask staff at the time. It just strikes me as odd that on a line which has 4 or 5 fast trains an hour you are allocated a seat which cannot be reserved, and expected to stick to it. It should either be a reserved seat on a specific train, or any seat on any...

Yes if the trains to London are showing as running late, and at the end of the morning peak they almost invariably are, I'll just ask someone (wearing a hi-vis jacket) if it is OK as I have a long way to go and don't want to miss my connections. Naivety usually works. I will ask the guard if I...

OK. I will use the train as long as it is not delayed/cancelled etc, though with carriage 0 and seat 00 this is hardly a reservation. I think in future I will forget LNER and go back to Virgin where I have never had this problem,

I have bought an Advance First Single from Basingstoke to Galashiels. I have today picked up the ticket and whilst it specifies my train and seat Kings Cross to Edinburgh as expected, it also specifies my train from Basingstoke to Waterloo with reservation Coach 0, Seat 00. There is nothing...

So are you saying I could travel from Barnsley to Rotherham via Wakefield, Leeds, Pontefract, York, Selby, Doncaster and Swinton, on a Barnsley to Rotherham ticket?

Thank you very much. That is very useful. I now understand how to investigate something similar in the future, though I will still probably check here that I have done it correctly. I will take a copy of map LB with me in case I get a 'difficult' guard.

Thanks both of you for your help. I will return from Hastings to Clapham Junction via Lewes and not go to Brighton. Whilst it is obvious that trains from Hastings go to Brighton via Lewes, it is not obvious that a ticket from Brighton to Clapham Junction can be used via Lewes, as this is not...

OK. Thanks. I thought so. It would only save about 40 minutes to go direct, and I'm not in a rush. It just seemed more sensible.

I will be travelling from Basingstoke to Brighton, then 2 days later travelling to Hastings, and another 3 days later returning to Basingstoke. I have a senior railcard and will be travelling off-peak. I plan to buy an Off-Peak return from Southampton Airport Parkway to Brighton via Clapham...

I can't see the Island Line needing pantographs anytime soon.

Or even electro-diesel bi-mode.