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Earlier this week I was delayed by around 25 minutes on both the outwards and return legs of my journey with Thameslink, entitling me to 25% delay repay. My ticket was a return Harpenden - London travelcard, costing £19.60. They've decided that I'm owed £2.50 for each leg. Is this correct...

While I was waiting for my train a couple of weeks ago at Burley Park, a man was busy measuring up the platforms and taking photographs of the platform furniture. When he asked to take a photo of the bench I was sitting on, I asked what he was doing. He said he was working for a contractor who...

I recently travelled with Virgin East Coast to Leeds. Due to disruption caused by a train fault and track issues the train was delayed. The length of delay is disputed - Virgin say the train arrived at the platform 59 minutes late and I am therefore entitled to 50% of the ticket price. Real...

A signal failure at King's Cross around 2pm this afternoon was affecting services when I was there. I'm on the 14:35 King's Cross to Leeds which was delayed leaving due to a fault with the locomotive and has now stopped north of Peterborough. Apparently a 'piece of equipment has broken down...

Apologies for a slightly stupid question, but I'm having trouble working out from the Thameslink website what the first train I can use after the morning peak ends is. The website says "Off-Peak tickets to London stations can only be used on the first trains to arrive in London after 10:00" -...

Hey guys, I was delayed on my journey today but I'm not sure if I'd qualify for delay repay. I was travelling from from Leeds to Harpenden and my booked itinerary was as follows: Departs: Leeds at 12:15 Arrives: London Kings Cross at 14:28 Departs: London Kings Cross at 14:28 by Walk...

Hi guys, I've heard a lot about pacers on this forum, but despite living in Leeds for a year or so have still only managed to travel on a 144. Are there any routes out of Leeds I'd be likely to find some on, in particular 142s? I've got a free day this week so I thought I'd take the...

I'm trying to book a ticket from St Albans to Maidenhead on Saturday 2 April, but when I try to reserve a seat I get the message "Coach: * Seat: *** - You have reserved a place on this specific service, but individual seat reservations are not possible." on the GWR website, or "Reserved - no...

I preface this by saying that this problem is my own silly fault - I'm not blaming anything other than myself! I've booked advance tickets for next week, but realised that I've chosen the wrong railcard discount (senior instead of 16-25). Would a ticket office be able to change the discount...

Not sure if this is the right place for this question, please move this if it isn't! On Saturday (12/12) I travelled on the 15.05 Leeds to Kings Cross East Coast service. The service was run by an HST as opposed to the class 91 I was expecting. Is this a normal allocation, or a one-off...

Hi guys, I've applied for a trainee bus driver position, and have got through to the interview stage. The issue I have is that I'd be unable to complete many weekday daytime shifts due to personal reasons, so I'd be limited to weekends, earlies and lates. Would this be an issue for the role...

Hi all, I was at St Pancras lower level station last night, and noticed that as far as I could remember, the overhead electrified cable had been changed to a metal bar type. Have I simply remembered wrongly and it always used to be like that, or has it been changed? I don't travel there very...

Hi everyone, I've bought a super off-peak return ticket from Paddington to St Ives. I'm wondering if it would be possible to make a break of journey on this ticket or if that is not allowed? Thanks in advance!

Not quite sure if this is the right place for this, but anyway... I live near to a railway line and recently saw a NR Response Unit when I walked past. What intrigued me was that next to the door, there was a sticker that said "Danger: overhead live wires". Is this on all the vans? Surely...

This might be quite a long post, but I thought it was worth sharing! Hertfordshire County Council made a few changes to the contracted buses in my local area, supposedly taking effect from today. The plan was for the 657 to be cut back from Redbourn where it currently ends to the estate...