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Yes - I guess it would sort of make sense to put this on passenger information screens ( although 'contains' is an odd way of putting it.) The monitors were showing this:- ( I couldn't get a clear picture of the dot-matrix PIS on the platform but it ended with the same message.)

Today's 16.20 from Three Bridges to Brighton was advertised on the screens in the usual way with operator, calling points etc, but with the interesting additional information that " this train contains doors." Is that just a test message that's escaped into the wild?

It's disappointing that a basic question like this has been answered incorrectly by (a majority of) the rail staff you asked; sadly, it's not surprising. The bulk of the fault lies with TOC management who are happy to leave staff with little or no training on routeing and ticket validity...

Yes. There are two off-peak returns (CDR) from York to Wakefield - route:via Leeds and route:Northern Only. Both are valid via Harrogate.

RJ shouldn't have to - I agree. I'm not suggesting this is the best option but it's a lot better than 2 x singles and the small additional amount (~2.50) might be worth paying for a hassle free journey until it's sorted. As I said, I'd be interested in Waterloo's explanation of why they won't...

I think that the any permitted London-Basingstoke off-peak day return at £26.20 would cover the journey you wish to make. Were staff at Waterloo able to explain why they couldn't issue an excess on the Mortimer ticket?

I think that's a quite conservative interpretation and I don't think it's the obvious reading but I acknowledge that it could be read that way. To recap, from the public-facing routeing guide section (A) p6 "This extended availability is for interchange purposes only". The meaning of this...

As you've observed there's is no mapped route for these journeys via Horsham. National rail enquiries (and at least some retailers) will offer Dorking(Main) [DGK!] to Redhill via Horsham. I would guess that's because it's within 3m of the shortest route wholly by rail between Dorking(Main) to...

A member of the public armed only with the routeing guide would not be able to tell this. The low price might be a clue but there are plenty of 'surprising good value' fares out there which are perfectly valid. The include/exclude records for each route are included in the .RTE file in the...

I was working on the assumption that there would be new "New Stations" records for these stations ( guessing that MRW would use Angel Road and WAW would use Warrington Central NFM64 Fares ) - is that not the case?

That's correct. You also get the shortest route but that goes Leeds-Huddersfield so isn't any help.

Creepy billionaires ? I accidentally sat next to one of them at an IFS briefing - 'grassroots' they ain't.

That's true but, assuming we're talking about post #34, I think Hadders did the right thing insisting on the (slightly more expensive) BZ6 ticket. The (unfortunate) wording of NCROT 14.2 means an East Croydon-Gatwick ticket would potentially have questionable validity (since East Croydon isn't...

Streatham Common was one of the suggestions when this was discussed earlier... opinions ranged from 1. No extra ticket required [Technically correct but potentially hard work] 2. Clapham Junction 3. Streatham Common 4. East Croydon 5. Gatwick Airport [Least hassle option but unnecessarily...

If we're stretching that far we could add IR for the (non-Enterprise) Newry-Dublin services.

I can see there's a Warrington - Manchester link on TM+MN (heading to Bradford Group) but I think the Chester-Leeds Northern Connect goes via Earlestown - I don't think there's currently a mapped route via Earlestown group?

The same also works using West Coastway destinations (For route: + Any Permitted SVRs - with restriction 4J) - all the way from Portslade out as far as Bosham.

Yes, that's correct. And if you're only interested in one or two routes then that's all you need. For a non-trivial journey there may be a myriad of potential routes so using NRE to test each one isn't very practical - it's like trying to work out the shape of a whale by looking through a...

AFAICS there's a connection starting with your original itinerary as far as Reading (starting 09:43 arriving Reading 14:01) then onto the 14:24 Clapham Junction service - changing there for Brighton arriving 17:01. That's definitely a valid route and NRE shows the component journeys - I'm not...

Yes - that's right - not sure what I was thinking there.