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Sorry, I didn’t read the whole thread. The main reason that I would wait at the concourse at City Thameslink is because there is no phone signal on the underground platforms. once you’re down there it becomes much harder to keep an eye on what’s going on on train company websites, Twitter...

The japanese Shinkansen seat reservation policy is great. I was in Japan recently and loved it. However, it relies on frequent very long trains so that there is plentiful capacity to handle the demand. We just don't have that level of capacity on many UK lines, so our ticketting has to perform...

I’m pretty sure that you cannot enter at South Kensington.

This is a bit of an undefined area in the rules, but I believe it is allowed by a real gnarly technicality. I am assuming its this ticket which is slightly cheaper than the ticket to London Terminals and is routed Any Permitted, lacking a maltese cross It's certainly not intended to be valid to...

I'm not a lawyer and this is not legal advice, however it is not "made up" that contracts only bind those who are party to it, and only parties to a contract can suffer damages from a breach of contract. It's a basic legal premise. The parties to the TSA are the TOCs and Rail Settlement Plan...

If the Op doesn’t want to have two packed trains every evening with no chance of getting a seat, then yes they need to board at Victoria.

I’d just like to point out that it is not certain that the legal case will succeed. Unless you want a load of hassle, don’t present a Thameslink only Travelcard ticket south of East Croydon.

If the ticket was issued to London Terminals and the connection you wanted to Charing Cross was both nonreservable and complies with the Not HS1 route code then I would say that what you did was valid. Finding out which trains are reservable is not obvious. I believe they used to be noted in...

I'd be interested in seeing a picture of the Swindon (Wilts) to Brighton tickets, assuming the Brighton ticket gates didn't retain them. The only thing I can think of is if they somehow printed without Maltese Crosses (data error, old printer with faded gaps on the ticket etc). Because the...

This is all very sad but not surprising. When Crossrail was introduced, TfL tried to fudge things and have their cake and eat it when it comes to National Rail ticketting and requesting that booking engines put in hacks instead of using the existing data structures that are available. Of course...

For some TOCs, the appeal process is submitting a new claim, with delay type "Appeal" or something.

We've had huge boundary changes here in Addiscombe, so I am now in a marginal seat and my vote will actually count. Our incumbant Labour MP has decided to run in the safer neighbouring seat after our constituency was cut up. You'd think it'd be easy for the Labour candidate to win given the...

What Nottingham59 was hinting at was if you could use one weekly season tickets to cover 2 weeks of commuting, which can start on any day of the week.e.g. Week A - commute Weds and Thurs Week B - commute Mon and Tues This could be done on a 7 day season that starts on Weds on Week A. The...

I just completed the National Three Peaks Challenge in 23 hours, 40 minutes. Doing it in under 24 hours is challenging unless you're a runner/jogger type which I am not. Here were our timings (we had a non-walking driver): 17:00 - start climbing Ben Nevis 20:00 - top of Ben Nevis 22:00 - finish...

Here in South London its very common for terrace houses to be converted to three floors too, with a dormer extension out of the back of the attic. The previous owners of my house solved the thermal and sound insulation by adding a plasterboard (stud) wall directly on the inside of the external...

I think the lack of addressing OP's actual reason for appeal by just ignoring it and focussing on something else is likely a deliberate attempt to distract the MP from OP's claim and muddy the waters. Sadly I can't say I'm that surpised.

Paddington "has its own rules" in that off-peak tickets issued from London Terminals to stations that GWR serve often have a restriction code whose text bars most fast trains in the evening peak. As your ticket didn't have an origin in London or the NSE area and thus had a different...

Today I see they are also running a very reduced New Addington service too

Hygiene issues aside, if the machine had gunk on the screen, it will almost certainly mess with the touchscreen and thus not register presses in the right place and not be able to vend the ticket. Therefore I don’t see how it could be an opportunity to purchase.

Chiltern's website will sell a ticket for Stoke Mandeville to Harrow on the Hill via Aylesbury if you add Aylesbury as a via point. In terms of the Routeing guide, this is a local journey as Aylesbury is the common routing point. The Routeing Guide in Detail (section F) says at the top of page...