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There is an offer here that includes return travel from any Dutch station to Den Haag Centraal, return tram tickets and entrance for €34. Probably a small cash saving but convenient in getting the tickets all at once. As the advertising blurb says '... Or grab tram 9 to Scheveningen Beach ...'...

This happened to me many years ago, in a steady stream of people through the line. The barrier retained the ticket of the person in front of me, presumably as it had no more validity. However, instead of passing through he hesitated momentarily I guess because he expected to need to pick up the...

You can but the prices can be very different. For example travelling from Oxford, an ESTAR CIV standard single was £9 compared with £32.50 for London International CIV. Although admittedly you can get a return for £33.60.

There are leaflets about it in the booking area.

Yet if you request to reserve an airline seat often you can still find yourself sitting at a table. Happened to me in two out of the last three bookings.

Prefer The Mirror? http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/train-commuter-slapped-racially-abused-8029818

Can see this being unofficially shortened to the Liz(zy) Line.

The 'anomaly' is that GWR prices its off-peak first class DID-PAD ticket at a premium of 175% over its equivalent standard one, whereas Southeastern prices DID-TON at a premium of only 55%. This is similar to the off peak first class premium it places on journeys from Kent to London.

An off-peak first class day return Didcot to Tonbridge (code F3) costs somewhat less than an off-peak first class day return Didcot to Paddington (code P7). Not that the cost of the ticket has necessarily anything to do with its validity of course.

A fairly normal bank holiday service was run on Boxing Day until 1975, when it was cancelled simply to save BR £130k. ASLEF protested against this, taking the position that it was a bad move for passengers who attended sporting occasions or visited relatives, even though their members would have...

Indeed metrication was an initiative agreed within the Commonwealth that only the UK failed on. I went to primary school in the late 1960s and remember being told that we were the first class to be only taught metric measures as by the time we left imperial measures would have become history...

Didcot is a very different place to what it was in 1985 when the station was renamed. Its current population is now only about 15% less than Abingdon-on-Thames and quite possibly will overtake it within 10 years. The station area will look even more central to the town if/when the Didcot...

Didcot Town Council has repeatedly called for the 'Parkway' suffix to be dropped from the station name for just that reason without success.

People from Norfolk (or familiar with it) get caught out in Leicestershire where the village of Wymondham is pronounced as it is spelt.

My favourite Twitter complaint from yesterday referred to GWR using trains that had come from the 1870s. Was it the appearance of LHCS or just a typo? We'll never know.

The advice coming through from a mixture of sources suggests the time expected to clear fully the public transport queues at the some of the bigger venues are: Wembley - 90 minutes Twickenham - 2 hours Cardiff - 3 hours The latter would be particularly challenging for an 8pm KO. It is the only...

I think it shows that late Saturday services in general are lacking. This may be a big event and concentrates matters, but it shouldn't really be good enough that the last long distance trains out of London aren't late enough for entertainment finishing around 22-22:30. Indeed in some respects...

EMT are running some longer trains and additional trains to venues on their routes on match days in Leicester and Manchester and have a micro-site with the details. This somewhat contradicts the National Rail advice, but the only additional train to Leicester is one running early in the morning...

The 'Saint David' from Swansea later in the day doesn't, but it runs in an hour where there is a Cheltenham train, thus the number of services stopping at Didcot is maintained. If the Red Dragon didn't stop there would be a 45-minute gap.

FGW produced this leaflet on their named trains. At Didcot the 10:45 to London is announced as the Red Dragon - but I am not sure really that (m)any take any notice. It isn't any different to the other train services.