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Maybe a silly question, but as I do this journey occasionally, I would appreciate your thoughts. On Monday I arrived at St. Pancras and went to a TVM near entrance to the FCC platforms to buy a ticket (an anytime single with a Gold Card discount) for my onward journey to Staines. I was...

Bulgarian Railways has (or at least until last year) some decrepit sleeping cars of what appeared to be East German origin. They still had Mitropa/DSG (German sleeping/restaurant car company) labels on the sink unit inviting passengers to ring for the attendant should they need anything. On the...

From experience of travelling on Bulgarian and Serbian night trains, the sleeping cars (not the couchettes) all appear to have shaver sockets, but these along with the reading lights etc, rarely seem to work. In fact on one trip no lights worked in my compartment at all! I understand there's new...

Thank you all very much for your help on this - now I know!

Every couple of months or so I like to travel from Staines to Dorchester to visit family, but as I'm rarely in a hurry I like to take my time and stop off at other interesting places. I normally buy an off-peak return (route not via London)with an Annual Gold Card discount. The question is -...

Inverness has them - saw them in February.

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Over the last few weeks there appears to be a very severe speed restriction on the down line approaching Ashford (Surrey). Does anyone know why it is there? It's the on the last bit of my journey home to Staines. For those who travel this route every day it must be as irritating as hell...

I've travelled through Bulgaria and Serbia a few times, so here's some ideas: Septemvri - Dobrinishte - scenic narrow gauge line, periodically threatened with closure. Septemvir is on the Sofia - Plovdiv main line. Never been, but supposed to be well worth a trip. 1970s style loco hauled...

Autumn 2008 on a FEVE narrow gauge service from Oviedo to Ferrol in Northern Spain. Two 2 car DMUs in multiple, with no corridor connection between the units. No one else in the rear unit for four hours of the journey, no guard, no trolley, no passengers, just me.

Thanks everyone for your responses - I'll try taking it up with SWT but at least I know the tickets I did get will do me tomorrow!

Having received advice from earlier in this thread, and planning to go to central London twice tomorrow from Staines, I went to the station to buy the tickets suggested by Yorkie in this thread: The response from the ticket clerk was that 'we don't sell in-boundary travelcards here'. Is this...

I live opposite Staines station. Can see the trains from my sofa in the sitting room or even from my bed. When the main line through Surbiton is blocked for engineering works it gets awfully busy, but despite a junction and a 'squeaky' curve the noise is barely noticeable. Must have been noisier...

For the last 5 years I have held an Annual Gold Card Ryde St. John’s Road - Ryde Esplanade, aka the ‘ticket to Ryde’. However it’s not always plain sailing getting some of the advantages that a Gold Card is alleged to have. Firstly, the First Class £5 supplement is almost impossible to get...

Used it for a simple Staines - Brentford return. Nice and easy to use and no booking fee, but not the ideal option for getting train times. For timetable info I much prefer the 'Rail Planner', but I wouldn't buy tickets on it!

I received two complimentary scratchcard tickets from FCC, as an annual Gold Card holder (even though my ticket was Ryde Esplanade - Ryde St. John's Road!). I emailed FCC to ask whether they could be used to cross London as part of a Palmers Green - Brighton journey on a weekend when the cross-...

One option (one that I’ve done in various forms) is to buy a London to ‘Any Belgian station’ ticket from Eurostar, then go to www.sncb.be and buy a ticket (about €4 single) from Hergenrath (last station in Belgium) to Aachen, then a ‘Europa Spezial’ from Aachen to Verona via the Munich to Italy...

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Thank you for the advice. I'm a bit puzzled about the (possible) rule about return travel taking place after the travelcard has been used though. I was under the impression that a travelcard is valid until 0429 the the next day within the zones and on TFL buses, and that it's only the journey...