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The Japanese do this with Shinkansen services; through-trains often switch companies from JR Central to JR West part-way through.

I do wonder why they didn't say on the posters "this is to help bring our new, better trains into service faster". Own it! It's a good reason! My partner mentioned seeing the poster and thinking it was just for saving money because it's public now.

Eh there's certainly some pros for using CCST tickets in my experience, for as long as they still exist: - Just a nice small card to leave on the table, which is preferable for me than having to swipe away whatever app is currently being used on my phone, and finding the right portion in the...

+1 for London Midland's Great Escape ticket. I think it was as low as £10? We had many a family trip out with those tickets, good times.

Trains will still run, but the healthier the finances, the better things can be. SWR are still running their Class 444s... but in my experience they're often running around with the aircon systems blowing hot air, window glazing blown, graffiti down the side, and even starting to sit down for a...

If behaviour on this line is an issue, why was strike action threatened when London Midland (as was back then) tried putting additional security staff on the train? I would have thought that would be welcomed by onboard staff.

On my local route, Northern's "advances that really shouldn't be advances" are regularly cheaper on the day compared to booking even the day before, but they're probably a bit of a weird case.

I really hope the change of ownership allows for S-tickets on the SWR routes. Yes, I know they're not great but it would be grand just to have my phone on me, instead of carrying (and worrying) about a plastic smart card. I don't ever carry my wallet on me, so it's a bit of an inconvenience...

I suspect now that the new "I'm a Guard" hi-vis with SWR branding have started appearing, there'll be absolute minimal changes to branding for now. But then at Waterloo the other day there was a guard wearing a very smart retro-style railway hat, with golden "S-W-R" letters on it, so who knows ;)

It makes sense they're not changing the liveries for all units now- the condition of the 444/450/701 livery is excellent, and the money is probably best spent elsewhere.

Hi, I experienced something that felt a little unusual the other day, and wondered if it was typical or not. I was on a walk in the Liss area, and came to the smaller level crossing near the south part of Liss, by the A3 junction. Here's a street view link to the crossing in question...

I travelled yesterday on a CrossCountry train, on the same route as SWR. There were just two announcements given for each stop, manually: "Next stop in about 10 minutes time is X", and "Now approaching X, mind your step down". No duplicated messages, no reminders about priority seats, advance...

Maddening. The amount of times I've seen my intended train as "Cancelled" on my phone and then stayed at the pub/wherever, before then arriving at the station for the next train. I've still been delayed! Is this requirement displayed in the terms and conditions of Delay Repay anywhere? I...

To be fair to South Western Railway, this is one of the things I've found them to do very well. I've put all sorts of complicated, weird claims in and they've always approved within a few days, with the correct compensation. Fingers crossed for you!

I've also read that the owner leases them out on very unfavourable finance deals, but I believe some other posters will be able to give more detail.

My first ever long-haul flight was last week, Heathrow to Seattle with Virgin. I was very impressed by the food! - Main meal about an hour in, the same items as the post above - Oreo chocolate ice cream sandwich (this was very large) - Cheese toastie service - Afternoon tea - a packet of love...

On the other side of the coin, SWR do not have such a requirement. Multiple times I've seen my train is delayed, and then left my house later as a result, turning up a few minutes before it's due. Therefore, my smart card is tapped-in accordingly, after the intended original departure time...

Apple Watch gives you the local sound levels, and indeed warns you when they get too high. No need for any other equipment. Try it! It can be interesting. Two things set them off for me, loud hand dryers and SWR announcements :D

This, this, a million times this! If you regularly travel on another TOC, you will eventually tune all the announcements out. If you don't travel on SWR Class 444 trains with some regularity, you won't be able to appreciate that on these services, this tuning-out is impossible. The...

So as someone who is admittedly truly ignorant in such matters, where does this money come from? Is this kind of settlement funded solely through increased fares, or does it come from other departmental budgets? Or did it exist all along without being assigned elsewhere?