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I think that the normal presumption that Delay Repay is due because of an event of a 'rail industry' failure might need to be suspended, as trying to do the right thing for passengers' health vis-a-vis delivering a service as advertised may in many cases actually be impossible.

Well it looks like the latest released figures of COVID-19 related deaths outside hospitals are far higher than previous reports have indicated. See here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52455072 snip: So in effect, the fall from the peak is nowhere as great as some commentators have...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/using-trains-to-travel-to-work.202660 After a few examples are made of people deliberately ignoring the requests, - suitably exposed by the media, the strays will reduce to a trickle. Then there will be adequate enforcement to...

Currently, there is a general prohibition on parking vehicles on the pavements of the public highway in the London area (I assume that is those boroughs in the GLA). Unfortunately, there is no similar constraint in the rest of England, with the consequence that there is extensive abuse of...

Whilst being no fan of Johnson, I think that he has done the right thing here. The US has been making all sorts of threats about Huawei, a) that they are a major security threat to (UK) national security and b) that the US might limit or refuse any free trade deal. The elephant in the room is...

A personal favourite of mine. Tremendous with both in print and on radio/TV. I can still hear his voice ridiculing the Japanese TV gameshow Endurance, with the 'screaming front man'. A sad loss https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50578512

Mod Note: Posts #1 - #11 originally in this thread. Given that the delay repay schemes give refunds based on the cost of the ticket actually purchased, however often some (including the TOCs) pretend it is, it certainly isn't a compensation payment. Clue: the name of the schemes is Delay Repay...

For some reason, up trains on the SWML are being delayed for 20 mins. approx. starting around New Milton. The guard on the 0902 ex Poole has just annnounced that that train will be fast from Basingstoke to Waterloo and that Clapham Junction is closed. Anybody here know what is going on please.

I am trying to find the best ticket for travel from Eastleigh(ESL) to St Albans City(SAC). Details as follows: Outbound: leave ESL after 09:00 on Thursday 7th November, travel direct to SAC via Waterloo and Blackfriars. Return: leave SAC around 11:00 on Friday 8th November, travel to central...

I am planning a trip from St Albans City to Sheffield in just over a week. I checked up on the best way to split the journey and received an itinerary that involved the final leg from Loughborough to Sheffield requiring a Derby stop. Today, the same search on the same website offers a similar...

The news today is that from tomorrow, new Electric Vehicles will be required to make suitable warning noises at low speeds to alert pedestrians and cyclists of their approach. This will be provided via loudspeakers mounted front and rear for forward and revers motion use. Although the driver...

As is usual, I watched this weekend's edition of Click on the BBC iPlayer. Titled 'Facial Recogition' it covers recent developments in facial recognition, - not as a detached review of technical progress but a very revealing report on where and how the technology is being extended into what many...

Simple question, - does Friday 19th April (Good Friday) count as a bank holiday for the purpose of ticket restrictions please?

Mod Note: Posts #1 - #17 originally in this thread. The 'millenium bug' wasn't a single fault or failure, it was the consequences of decades of programming short cuts that only represented the date as two digits - i.e. ending in 99 meaning 1999, as no computers or their operating systems were...

Trains crawling from signal to signal. Does anybody know what the problem is?

I would be grateful if anybody here could help with this question: If a driver sustained a left leg injury that prevented them from driving their existing manual transmission car for six months, would they increase the premium if the car was changed for the same model of similar age with an...

I have today travelled from Chester to St Albans Abbey including a change at Milton Keynes Central. Although it was a tight (but scheduled) connection at MKC, a series of misleading CIS messages and a wrong PA announcement caused me to miss the connection and consequentially to arrive an hour...

Not sure if this is the correct forum so if it needs moving, mods feel free to do so. Early in the week before Saturday 29th September I enquired on NR Enquiries Website prior to buying tickets for a break in St Ives (Cornwall). I entered the travel details into the Journey Planner as follows...

I will be travelling on the 10:03 Paddington to Penzance on 29th September. I believe that it will be operated by a 'normal' 2+8 HST, but I can no longer find the Coach seating map that FGW once had on it's website. Can anybody please point me to an online location where I can find it (if it is...

This post id about mainline procedures when a failure requires a train to be reversed onto a mainline: On Tuesday 11th Sept., I travelled on the Cathedrals Express from St Albans to Carlisle. The northbound train as far as Hellifield consisted of: WCR 47760, hauling Stratford Group 47580 and a...