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I've had two this week... One in London, one Birmingham. The company I work for has what I consider an unusually sensible policy on meetings, as we've people dotted all around. If you don't need an in-person meeting, don't have one, do it online. If you need one, don't start before 11am if...

Looking for Banbury to Birmingham International on Monday morning, I'm seeing any Anytime Single for £16.80. However, for some trains, I'm also seeing an Advanced Single for £20.00. Not for 1st class, that's standard class too! I'm a bit at a loss as to why CrossCountry think it's sensible to...

Looks like the Head For Points article has been subsequently edited to remove the bit on the HEX change. Possibly they hadn't meant that bit of the discussion to be published...

Yesterday I caught a Plymouth+Penzance service from London to Reading. On-train announcements said the rear 5 coaches for Penzance, guard kept coming on saying "ignore the announcements, it's the front 5", lots of people seemingly confused. That can't help! But at least they got the full 10...

Trying out 1P20 for the first time since the change, the 08:13 Worcester Shrub Hill / 09:32 from Oxford to London Paddington Previously, the 09:30 from Oxford was a 2 or 3 coach turbo, often a few people stood from Oxford to avoid the middle-3 seats, loads standing from Reading, and on 2 coach...

Via the blog Head For Points, Heathrow Express management are now saying that the 387s won't be in service until March 2020.

This inspired by the GWR December 2019 timetable and fare restrictions thread Fairly often, I need to travel from Oxford to near London Liverpool Street, coming back in the evening peak period. Often I'll leave late enough to get a cheaper off-peak ticket. When I do, that tends to involve an...

In my experience, mostly you don't need to show any tickets, the lifts are normally active all the time. However, every so often, when the lift arrives there are half a dozen people waiting to check tickets of everyone in the lift (which is quite often lots of people...)

It's been a while since I had a Cotswolds railcard, as my Network Goldcard works for the same route, but the other half has hit a problem today with hers... Based on past use, the the National Rail enquiries website description, it's valid for The Cotswold Line Railcard gives the holder a 34%...

After a few 80x trips between Oxford and London, today I've had a fun mix. 3 coach turbo "fast" to Reading, then everyone off, mad dash along the platform against a flow of people coming the other way, and a 4 coach 387 onwards to Slough and Paddington. Seats wise, I think the turbo was...

There's a few old, locked threads around this topic ([1] [2] [3]), but nothing since 2016, so hopefully it's OK to re-open the topic... I'm a moderately frequent (North) Cotswolds line user, and at the times/directions of day when there are 2 trains an hour on the Moreton-in-Marsh to Oxford...

Isn't that what GWR already do? Most of the time when I want something from the trolley on a GWR 800, I find the trolley (and associated staff member) lurking in their special trolley cupboard somewhere in the middle of the train. They don't come through, they sometimes announce where they can...

Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask... Having "enjoyed" the 09:31 shoulder-peak service from Oxford into London Paddington recently, operated by a 3 coach turbo clogging the fast lines at 90mph - does anyone know when/if this is set to be replaced by and IEP?

Right now, I'd say I'm taking Thameslink / Great Northern about twice a week. As would come as no surprise to anyone here, I suffer some sort of delay of cancellation about 3 in every 4 journeys.... As such, I'm filling in a lot of delay repay claims. After a period where they were pretty good...

GWR seemed to be having lots of problems with their buses yesterday. First Hanborough to Oxford service didn't turn up and bus rep refused to book taxis, then going back the 17:05 bus from Oxford to Hanborough was about 90 minutes late departing "due to delays with the bus coming in from...

I believe that at T2/T3, there's two sets of ticket machines. The ones you see straight ahead as you come down the coridoor are the old annoying HEX+HEC only ones. If you turn around, you'll see another few behind you which are "normal" machines which let you collect tickets, and I believe buy...

The Virgin Red app (the cross-Virgin loyalty and engagement thingy) today has a big thing on VTEC leaving as the first story ("tile") shown. So, at least one bit of the Virgin empire is admitting to the loss

For anyone interested in what's happening when over the July blockade, here's the letter that Network Rail have sent out to anyone living vaguely near the line. Fair bit of details of what's happening in each area when (Nothing on what's happening between Oxford and Moreton-in-Marsh on the...

I think there's a fair number of people who'd like to see Finstock get more service! As well as those in the village itself (short walk), there's a business park between the village and the station on the edge of the Cornbury Park estate, and a bigger business park at Southill just up a private...

The local paper is reporting - http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/16118181.Calls_to_build_extra_track_for_railway_amid_regular_delays/ - that the local council wants to get the remaining single track section doubled as part of the central government bribe for allowing more house building in the...