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And again, tapped in at SML, went to WSM, cycled back. SML tap not showing so have 'correction required or pay fine' message. Also still no movement on the autocomplete for the open jaw to YAE with return from OLF, so have complained as below, using the station facilities category. I cannot...

That one is still outstanding; as the fare charged is slightly less than for the real journey I shall let it lie, although I suspect after this time nothing further will happen, I do not know what the time limit for reworking journeys is. ******* However, on Monday I got another auto-complete...

Apart from which, having a promotional discount just before a fare rise has the effect of making the rise seem larger. Instead of going from 1.30 to 1.40 my senior trip to Severn Beach went from 1.20 to 1.40. ******* In the meantime the fun resumes. Yesterday, 9 May 2025, I went from Sea...

Adding other options might be useful, but moving away from a dedicated smartcard would be a mistake. The main advantage is that it is light and simple and the equipment entirely the responsibility of the railway. There is no option to claim that it is your fault that your phone or bankcard is...

I nearly tried the line 'Here is the only PAYG card in the wild' on a guard today, but chickened out from such frivolity. Will try next time and see what the response is. As for the explanation, 4.6 % up and 10% down does seem to fit the observed 4 % drop in the fare since last month. As...

I believe there was a national fare increase last weekend. Rather surprisingly the PAYG open jaw journey I made on Monday, to Weston with return from Yatton, seems to have been cheaper than the similar journey I made a month ago. I shall keep an eye on this since the system has already...

Conveyance: 1510 WSM-SML 2K42 165-103 Being a bright sunny day, with a NNW wind forecast cycling down the coast and taking the train back from Weston appealed, so off I went. Gordano, Clevedon, Tutshill, making good time so that I began to ponder the possibiliby of cycling home across the moor...

During the autumn, having checked my card, which was in order, a senior inspector took the opportunity to explain the workings of PAYG to a junior inspector, including demonstrating to him how to tap a passenger in on the train 'if they look innocent', so I assume it can be done. As I did not...

Encountered the same problem at Sea Mills about a fortnight ago so asked the inspector to tap me in on the train, but as she could not find the function on her machine she just said that I would not have any problem leaving at Severn Beach. Probably true for most stations in the zone, and I...

A month later, on the 17th October, I noticed that the allotments had their flood defences up and then that the predicted tide was higher than the equinox. The train service was not interrupted, and on the 20th I noticed that the closure mark was no longer affixed to the side of the bridge...

A file named 'Pay as you go ZONES Bristol area V3.pdf' can be found on the media section of the GWR website, and is attached. The map itself does not mention PAYG but presumably the name means it is. It may once have appeared in the PAYG explanations for passengers, but does not currently do so...

As far as we know, fine. He studied the timetable, found that the 1450 (2C79) from Temple Meads was the last through GWR service to Truro for some hours, and took the 1354 from Sea Mills to connect with it. Although 2C79 is shown in RTT as one service RTT reports a set change at Plymouth...

It appears that the reason it was not possible to take a bicycle on the Avanti service that overtook the earlier TfW was not that there was no bicycle space available, nor that it could not be booked, but that booking it required a manager somewhere 'at platform level' who the half dozen visible...

Probably, but 'Freebie' is an unnecessarily derogatory term for something issued as compensation. I am unable to tell whether there is an anomaly in tomorrow's operation*, suspect not, but am still puzzled what the 'and their recognised routes' adds to the conditions, apart from confusion, or...

Thank you. Looking back at the timetable for last Thursday, I think we may have misunderstood what is normal. The 1830 from Truro, 1A39 may be an anomaly in going via Temple Meads rather than Westbury, so for Monday the stopper it is. For once I suspect it is good that this is probably an 800...

My son came up from Penryn to Sea Mills on Thursday on a GWR 1st class scratch ticket issued in compensation for a cancelled sleeper train, using a GWR express from Penzance to Penzance. He intends to return tomorrow, Monday 21 October 2024. Checking his trains for tomorrow he finds that the...

Conveyances: 2K14 0904 Sea Mills (SML) to Severn Beach (SVB) 165-136 2O16 1601 SVB to SML 158-959 (Abandonded at Avonmouth (AVN) - points failure (on board reason) - track circuit failure (on-line reason) Noted that the round trip to AVN forming the 0854 into...

This morning I received an email alert that the 0820 from Sea Mills would be cancelled due to flooding, and the GWR journey check spoke of disruption due to the closure mark until after 0900, which is probably a first for an autumn equinox. RTT says this was indeed the case, the corresponding...

I certainly recall using the service from 1970-73, but only the physical details of the trunk being collected from home, and delivered by the college porters to the bottom of the staircase, not how I booked it for collection from the porters lodge on the way home. I cannot even recall whether...

Indeed, there are a whole host of questions relating to the physical marking of trains not ready for service, authority to do so and to release, identification of trains to be taken, assembling trains...