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Will Oyster be rolled out to Reading prior to full Crossrail operation?
Has there been any announcements about the proposed timescale of implementation?
Have got this on my old phone, but looking for it on play store for my new one there is no trace
anyone have any updates, as it was a cracking app to work out routings for just bimbling about on the network#
From a lay persons point of view, i wonder just how many brain cells people have.
Chiltern are running services Boxing Day
Yet someone has decided that no services will stop at Wembley Stadium.
Can anybody give me a logical reason why. After all it is a PUBLIC service. not a giant trainset for...
I am making a very rare trip outside the oyster zone this Sat
Proposed route
Kew Gardens-Finsbury Park via NL line ( avoiding Zone 1)
FPK to Stevenage .
and return
Oyster on the first leg
GN on second
Question is, can i buy a FPK-Stevenage ticket on line and if so what station can i get it...
SAw it dinner time at Reading
However it seems to have dissappeared from Real time trains and Open traind site...nowhere to be seen and no 'passing' updates
Open train suggest it is diesel hauled on the return
Doing a coast to coast trip of Museums and while i can find a site that lists the surviving Steam locos, haven't yet found one covering diesels
Anyone know of one
Tried all the usual searches but limited results
Back in 1974 i went on the Loop in Chicago and the stock had forward views for the pax ( like early DMU had)
Going back next month. Does the current stock have forward views for pax?, I would like to video the circle
Please note NOT the first time on a train, but have booked a ticket online for collection at the departure station.
Have the ref number, and as i will be leaving at 08.30!! dont want to hold up a humungus queue working out on what buttons to press
So what is the idiots guide to getting the...
Whilst at the Spurs game, they announced an 'incident' between Tottenham Hale and Cheshunt. Abellio Website gave closure until 16.00 but trains running at about 15.30.
Hope it was an operational problem
Watching Terminus on Talking Pictures the other day.
As an aside there is a cracking 1935 film about a GWR driver called the Last Journey in a couple of days well worth watching.
Anyway the Brute
It was pulling a stack of trailers oyut of on of the platforms onto the copuncourse and had to...
I found this quote by a well known transport journalist on the Ufton Nervet accident.Can someone explain what he actually means as to me it doesn't read right?
'As the front slowed down, the rear was still at speed,and the train jackknifed
in the middle with catastrophic results'
How...
Have to travel from Tywford to Peterborough next Wed 11th ( and return)
Was advised to book via Virgin EC to get reservations on that service.
Question
I i do book online
Have i an option to pick the tickets up at Twyford on Wed morning. ( dont rust the post)
Apologies if i sound...
Travelling Bracknell -Reading -(LUL) -KX-Peterborough Standard Class) on a day return and booking it via the Southwest website
Can i contact GWR/Virgin to arrange seat reservations or do i just take pot luck?
Will be using this on Sat from London Bridge to East Croydon for the first time
how will it know i have a railcard?
do i have to register it at a ticket office beforehand?
Slightly dumb question
My lad and i are doing a leisure attempt to cover every line within the osyter boundary and that means each line, both ways, when travelling to football.
The real PITA are the north Kent loops Slade Green/Barnehurst/Crayford which do not run weekends looks like it...
My lad and are trying to cover every line shown on the Tfl London Connection map
so far All the Undergound, All lines north of the river and everything on the South Western lines. Tramlink also ticked off.
however i can get routes over the rest of those needed EXCEPT the piece of line between...
Various sites advise me i can travel this route for basically peanuts. Having said that when i go onto sites to check times etc, the fares make British ones look cheap.
So what would be a ral life fare between the two?
When i was at KX for the Gresley statue unveiling, was talking to a Virgin driver who showed me a programme that showed KX as a layout with the reporting numbers of what one was in whicjh platform.
for the life of me i cannot recall its name but it wasn't Real time Trains.
Any one know what it...
On Tues bought a 1-3 zone Travelcard from the machine at Kew Gardens. The intended route was District to Victorias and bus onwards. The return was to do bus to Waterloo and then train to Richmond then up to Kew Bridge. BUT i did notice that Kew Bridge was zones 3/4 and Richmond was Zone 4. didnt...
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