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Put down the tin opener and step away from the can of worms!

I have discovered a type of TVM that will issue a Network Railcard discounted inboundary off-peak day travelcard during the week without applying the minimum fare (ie. £5.90). My general understanding and reading of http://www.network-railcard.co.uk/tickets-types-min-fares/ is that this is...

The off peak single is actually £39 (or £39.10 if you want cross London validity but I can't see how you would use it for that journey) which rather spoils that calculation. £9 is the lowest advance tier, see: http://www.brfares.com/#expert?orig=SRA&dest=FLX If you have a Network Railcard...

IWBHTPRAL - I would be happy to proof read any letters

What if first class is advertised by way of a yellow stripe on the side of the carriage and lots of signs within the compartment saying First Class? Is it still reasonable for a passenger to draw the conclusion that it is standard class? By the same logic, if a trolley service turns up on a...

As promised, I tested the King's Cross machines with some more adventurous journeys this morning. I tried Newcastle to Edinburgh, Woking to Portsmouth and Chester to Holyhead. I'm glad to report I was offered the full set of fares for all. I guess something has been updated since you last used...

I must admit I have only used the King's Cross machines to buy tickets starting from relatively local stations (Stevenage, Hitchin and Letchworth) so I don't know about stations further afield. I'll be passing through later so I'll try out some more distant options and let you know what happens...

The twitter response doesn't say it's declassified though, does it. In fact I would say the original question and later reference to "non existent first class" are deliberately worded to mislead in order to draw a response that suits the OP. They are answering the original question correctly in...

The machines at Kings Cross do sell tickets from stations other than the boundary zones, you just have to use the 'Station finder' button to type in the origin. The boundary zones are displayed as buttons on the 'From' screen, presumably as they are the most common tickets sold from other...

Dusseldorf maybe but I suspect the service to Essen is just a consequence of needing to get the set to a suitable location for servicing between runs. They certainly looked very empty north of Dusseldorf in both directions when I was last there. Admittedly that was in October so patronage may...

I travelled on a LHCS set that had no buffet car today (1400 NRW-LST). In its place there was a TSO (labelled up as a second coach E) and a trolley service. As they should have fourteen buffet vehicles for eleven sets I guess this was a hurried substitution with whatever was available. In the...

What seems clear is any solution that doesn't involve greater or total restrictions is going to cost money. Perhaps the answer is a charge to convey a bicycle on the train, around the child fare maybe, with the revenue going towards better provision. I don't think additional vehicles for bikes...

Further to the recent thread about the health and safety aspects of overcrowded trains...Following a recent change of job I have now started commuting from King's Cross to Letchworth in the mornings and back in the evenings and I have been amazed by the number of bikes being taken on trains on...

I don't have a big problem with first class being automatically declassified IF that is an official policy. My problem is that it isn't and yet people perpetuate the urban myth that it is. It is alarming that it's mentioned in the forum's fares guide, presumably there is a disclaimer somewhere...

One that seems to come up quite regularly is the old favourite "If a train isn't advertised as having first class you can use it with a standard ticket". Despite several lengthy threads I don't think anyone has ever come up with a definitive source for this, which I guess would have to be the...

For those wondering why he didn't use a travelcard on oyster rather than pay the maximum fare, I imagine such a usage pattern on a travelcard (regular incomplete journeys starting or ending in zone 1) would immediately flag up as suspicious and be investigated. Better to use an unregistered payg...

As an annual season ticket from Stonegate to London Terminals is £4,548 Southeastern seem to have done rather well out of it. I'm guessing they based the figure on individual anytime day returns every working day for the five years or something like that. As others have said "throwing the...

I've been using the route for around ten years and the foot passenger experience at Harwich has gotten gradually worse over that time. The current farce of queuing to enter check in, queuing again for the metal detector and queuing again to collect your boarding pass is beyond a joke. The last...

I believe this is why the operators that provide food and drink in first class are always careful to describe them as 'complimentary' offerings ie. not actually a part of the fare. That way if the extras are not provided for whatever reason, planned or unplanned, there is no liability in regard...

Sorry to sound harsh but the answer is just to take care of valuable things like season tickets, plain and simple. It amazes me how many people manage to lose things like bank cards with astonishing frequency (as in genuinely misplace, not the "I've got a payday loan repayment due" type of lost...