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Me, SE & SN won't replace them until they literally drop

I think it's evidenced that an outlet can charge the going high st price and still be profitable in a station, what tends to happen is if its the right price or a few pence off people will buy it and volume not % profit keeps the outlet afloat, if you know that your Whopper is £3+ over priced in...

Yep, that's quite a regular thing, I worked for a Foreign Currency Exchange at Eurotunnel, the exchange rates were abysmal, it wasn't the companies fault it was the turnover based rent (which was horrendous) charged by Eurotunnel that forced their hands, the same applies at Gatwick, Heathrow...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/disingenious-departure-board-at-london-victoria.249498/ Has anyone made comment on the crazy signage at St Pancras too, does the Luton Airport Express (Corby Class 360s) really need to exist when so many Thameslink services exist

2013 Champions League Final was held at Wembley Borussia Dortmund vs Bayern Munich, I jumped on a train in Dover to St Pancras and immediately started to regret my decision making (initially), 100s of German fans of both clubs had just piled off the ferries and were on their way to Wembley The...

The simple fix is to either find out via RealTimeTrains which platform your train is parked at and just get down to the train in advance, or my preference just incase for some crazy crazy reason they change sets because of a fault, I prepare by going up to the mezzanine with the restaurants...

The thing is a station like ECR has multiple services that go through there hourly, if for any reason one is late the next one would have almost arrived and will take you to the intended destination, its not turn up and go like LBG but its pretty damn close in peak. The main issue I have at ECR...

This is the moment you need an off duty officer on board to cuff him or a couple of burly rugby players to sit on the idiot until such time he calms down. It's that or like on an aircraft the service crew have cable ties to hand to cuff the fool to a seat (with help of course)

I'm thinking because of Thameslink Bedford would be open 24hrs as it has an all night service for Luton and Gatwick passengers, the same can probably be said about the other end of that service at Three Bridges. Arguably Peterborough gets the same treatment as it has services throughout the...

If you're tall seek out a bay of 4, or a priority seat, there are plenty of them per carriage or head to the rear 1st Class, and if you only have the option of a normal airline seat...don't...stand until a taller person seat becomes available! Simples

Did I miss you on my first check? Yeah I was in the toilet, would have been my first answer!

A lot of the time it's being in the right place at the right time, and knowing the right people, take Geoff Marshalls Thameslink closure announcements for example

Yeah good shout that's almost at walking pace its that slow

The curve at Dover Harbour on the Dover to Folkestone line, trains crawl through at 15mph it's made easier with them being 20m long coaches but 12 car 375s or 395s certainly squeal through there

Quite a few people (Rightly) have complained South Eastern don't do E-Tickets They do now, here is the tweet about it SE_Railway twitter announcement

I guess it depends on the shifts, Monday morning early turns, selling 7 day seasons or peak returns must be lucative but Wednesday Late Late turns where you are hiding in rear cab results in nothing I suppose. Its a ⁵⁰/⁵⁰ chance then

Phoar....that's a very good incentive to check tickets, and find ticket abnormalities. £200 must be achievable within the 1st day of the working week!

If you look how bad the service recovery was around the TOCs on non strike days I'm sure you certainly wouldn't suggest it was a case if everything working as normal. Living in East Kent and struggling along with South Eastern the Wednesday and Sunday post strike days was bloody awful, the 1st...

The hourly Tonbridge to Strood services would never be extended, the hourly Maidstone West to Stroods maybe would make sense to Abbey Wood or Plumstead just for a siding to turn round in resulting in 3tph to the Elizabeth Line from Strood 1tph from Maidstone West adding in another train from...

Does anyone have any insight why so many non-NX branded coaches are running services in Kent (I only ask because it seems recent more than a 50/50 split have been branded NX and others Kings Ferry Coaches / Clarkes of London), I fully understand the KFC/Clarkes/Lucketts ownership part of this...