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I can imagine scenarios where roads are blocked by snow in Scotland making access tricky. Surely this duty is limited in some sense of what is "reasonably practicable". And in what if the putative passenger that has hiked into the station expecting a pickup but has not yet bought a ticket...

This is a new angle. I thought the issue was the fact the call centre isn't in Great Britain. I hadn't realised the problem was that the call centre isn't in Norfolk. This is not a facetious point. Do we truly expect a call centre in each county? Would a call centre in (say) Durham realise...

Actually, I would question the "easy" bit. Last time I walked that way it was all pretty marshy. Regarding the expectation that a train should arrive, we all know that occasionally it may not: bridge strikes, tractors on level crossings, broken rails, fallen trees, on-board fires etc. So it...

APEX used to be understood across the travel industry - I remember flying on APEX plane tickets. "A" does/did of course stand for "Advanced", but the booked time only clause was quite clear.

Makes sense, and has happened, to me. Was trying to join my mother in law on a Virgin XC service from upcountry that had been curtailed and restarted. Before we both had mobile phones too. She arrived a couple of hours later than expected.

I thought, generally speaking, trespass was a civil offence? While trespass on the railway is a different matter, being a bylaw offence? So, unless folks prosecuted for trespass on a heritage railway were committing some form of aggravated trespass, then those powers have apparently been...

I have never timed myself. But with a) arthritis b) poor eyesight and c) nerve damage to my left arm, possibly longer than the average bear. I don't recall the last time I collected a ticket on departure being very long at all however. Insert credit card. Whirr. Whirr. Job done. Quicker than...

But you still need to check you have all of your 11+ pieces of card in the first place. You step aside, the next person picks up the remainder of your ticket with theirs, while you are still counting, and walks off with it. What do you do then?

That's the idea. Actually, the whole lot can move to the east slewing the Windsor lines, since we can close half the platforms by turning into a through station. And we can extend platforms southward across the old station throat.

>> Assume for a moment that you can build your new link as you please << Really? There seems to be nearly as much space (and curvature) available as at Strawberry Hill. Do it the other way - elevate the Wimbledon lines and take them to Charing X while sending Windsor to London Bridge. What...

How about closing Waterloo East completely: extend the Windsor lines to Charing X, and redirect the London Bridge lines to the Wimbledon lines. There is scope for a few Surbiton-Cannon St trains to relieve the waterloo and City then. No triangle, London Bridge to Charing X would change at...

I can see where OP is coming from, but what EXACTLY did you claim for? In particular, did you say to Southern that you went to Brighton? [ I guess they can figure it out though] The journey planners all show the 0609 dep/0748 arrival as a sensible journey from Lewes. Indeed, it appears to be...

How far back do these sorts of records go? Did the crossing suddenly become more dangerous in 2008-9 or so for some reason (and if so, what)? Warning devices seems the way to go. I know of similar crossings with a much more frequent service with fewer safety measures.

Yes. I frequently hear the instruction to keep my ticket as there are checks at the station exit, so I don't throw my ticket in the bin as I leave the train. I then clear out my wallet about once a fortnight. On the other hand I am usually also carrying loads of credit card slips for all the...

Ah, gotcha. Thanks.

Yorkie, I think you mean the Euston/Wembley paper return is £11.60? How often does our OP expect to make the extended journey? The MKC-LondonTerminals weekly season comes in at £122.70 for a 7 day, compared to a 7 day MKC-WMB for £106.80 . If we make the extended trip twice a week, we might...

All I did with the timetable is figure out the down service is roughly hourly. Near the terminus I understand that the train goes past, turns round in a few minutes and then comes back again. Then we have a longer gap for the train to leave the section and the next to arrive. I've never relied...

I looked up the timetable. As far as I can see it is a single track line normally worked on a one-in one-out basis with typically one train per hour in each direction. What is the highest capacity the line CAN be worked to? I'm not familiar with the incident you refer to at all. The video...

While I agree with the general tenor of the press release (many of the perps in the video are clearly guilty of trespass and open to prosecution in my opinion), are there not parts of the railway that are rather more dangerous than a train every half hour with a 10 mph speed limit?

http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/DID/details.html says 1127 places. Biggest station car park I have used. Way bigger than Bodmin Parkway.