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Depending on your route (and flexibility of days), it may end up cheaper to buy a weekly season on a Wednesday to cover Wed/Thurs/Fri/Mon/Tue, and then buy a single day ticket for the third day in the second week. Certainly much cheaper than buying flexi-seasons where I travel.

Having travelled on a Class 755 for the first time last week, I would love to see something similar back up north. Wonderful trains. Modern technology allows us to have step-free access now, it really ought to be the standard going forwards.

I swear I'd heard of this plan a few years ago, could this be the origin? Or maybe even earlier than this. https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/rdg-making-another-attempt-to-get-rid-of-off-peak-fares.228169/#post-5534793 In hindsight the thread appears to be both depressing and foreshadowing.

Out of all the TOCs for this to happen on, it's certainly ironic it's happened on SWR! ;) Joking aside though, if the guards weren't required to repeat the auto-announcements almost verbatim, I wonder if miscreants would even know that this were possible?

I imagine it's similar to the Central line. London Underground can't claim that all the recent 1992 failures are unexpectedly higher or a surprise. It's clear to anyone who travels on them that LU spent no money on them, inside they're a disgrace. And now the chickens have come home to roost...

Yes, absolutely. Seats, standing, sat on the floor, luggage racks, wherever. Be honest with passengers. Things are rubbish now, but we can’t magic trains out of anywhere soon. Until then, we will do absolutely everything we can to maximise capacity for everyone, so first class is declassified...

First class really needs permanently declassifying, until capacity is properly sorted. Also, there’s posters at Southampton Central this morning saying there’ll be disruption today because of a lack of drivers. If you don’t have enough drivers, then you’ve ultimately failed as a train...

It would be simply lovely if the Trainline app popped-up something along the lines of 'Why not have a day out at Haymarket instead? It'll cost you a lot less!" I think for better or worse, Trainline is the entry point to the railway for most people outside of this website.

If they're making lives difficult for e-ticket users, I'd just use a paper ticket instead.

What an interesting document (my bolding): Don't help the person who already subsidises the railways through their taxes. Make them pay more. (Why do train operating companies even still have their own retail channels in this post-franchising age, think of all the money being wasted)

I don't particularly mind any of the objects from the survey left on the train. It's the filthy grime and ground-in dirt around windows, tables, and panels that really grates. No reference to that in the survey!

Excellent news. Having seen this set-up a few times, it did look a little clunky. It was good that there was a member of staff present, but you don't tend to see that at any other ranks, so it probably wasn't sustainable. Fortunately, Uber availability continues to be strong. I wonder what the...

Ha, I'm glad I'm not the only one that struggles with this. The announcements on SWR are crazy. On a journey from Southampton to London yesterday, after every stop: 1- Automated 'Welcome aboard service to X calling at A, B, C etc.' 2- Manual announcement a few seconds later repeating all the...

I had my 26-30 scanned on Avanti, but not the Senior railcard of the person sat next to me. I wonder why?

And the government think instead of one national retailer, there should be 20+ chances for passengers to get confused and be charged incorrect amounts on websites doing their own thing!

This would work at Euston wouldn't it? Euston platforms are wide and long, and people can be spread out. I remember waiting for a late-arriving LNR 8 car service on a Friday afternoon. There were a lot of people on the platform waiting for it, but there was ample space, and there were no issues...

Reading this post, I thought Virgin Trains used to offer a service texting platform information early. I've managed to find reference to it here. https://www.globalrailwayreview.com/news/26937/virgin-trainsearlybird-boarding-text-london-euston/

The whole operation is rotten. Why would management want to bother sorting this out at Northern? Everyone will still get paid next month. The government aren’t ever going to shut down Northern Rail, so where’s the motivation to do better.

After booking a new advance ticket, I got a full refund for the original advance ticket that I was no longer using.

What's the argument for TOCs having their own retail solutions? Surely that's wasting massive amounts of money through duplication?