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    SWR Class 458 to be retained

    The only thing that seems to have changed since GBR took over SWR is there are more short formations than ever.I saw two 4 car 455s yesterday on the Reading route and people were already standing on the 0823 as it left Wokingham for Waterloo.
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    Unpaid Fare Notice

    Or just use a ticket office.
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    SWR "Summer timetable"

    I see that the 1239 Reading to Waterloo,which is the first train that "Evening Out" tickets are valid on, has also been chopped.Nice one!
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    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway: progress updates

    What exactly is the logic behind Farnham drivers and guards working the Waterloo to Reading diagrams?Do they have to travel all the way to Waterloo to do this?
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    SWR Class 458 to be retained

    I was travelling on a 458/4 towards Reading today and the PA system still imagines that the train is a 10 car rather than an 8 car.Announcements kept saying that you must be in the front 8 coaches to alight at Winnersh,Winnersh Triangle and Earley. Not sure if this was specific to this unit or...
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    SWR Class 458 to be retained

    Isn't it about time that the Reading trains ran fast between Staines and Waterloo like they used to years ago?
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    EWR/Chiltern Class 196 Build and Implementation

    196007 was on a Leamington Spa - Nuneaton WMR service on Wednesday 23/4/25,according to RTT.
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    ITX Package Reading to Wokingham.

    Many thanks for the explanations.
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    ITX Package Reading to Wokingham.

    I have been looking at BR Fares and came across this strange looking return fare between Reading and Wokingham. The ticket type is ITX Package 98y route GWR only and costs 5p.It says this fare is not normally available to purchase.I was wondering if anyone knows what this is as I have never...
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    Short Fairing Problem

    I wonder what the reaction would have been if you had asked the ticket office ,at say , Banbury for a single from Wembley Stadium to Marylebone?
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    Short Fairing Problem

    As a regular reader of this forum,I am astounded at the number of people who are asking for advice when caught for short faring,which seems in the majority of cases to be via Trainline. I can only imagine that this is only a tiny percentage of the people actually doing this on a daily basis. Do...
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    Advice on a prosecution notice from South Western railway

    Just out of interest,how did your partner get through the barriers at Staines without a ticket?
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    email from Greater Anglia re travel irregularity

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    Trains forced to wait when clear paths are available

    Maybe the signaller had gone for a dump!
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    Frequent signal failures at Richmond

    Another Network Rail area that seems to suffer from fairly frequent failures is the Bakerloo Line north of Queens Park.Probably not as often as the Richmond branch though.
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    SWR Class 458 to be retained

    And don't forget all the cuts to the Reading service which is now 1/2 hourly throughout the day.
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    National Rail App

    It does make me wonder if the people coming to the defence of the new version of the National Rail website have been involved in the design or implementation of it.
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    Class 710 LO

    710270 was on the Euston-Watford diagrams today.No sign of 710374 at Willesden.
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    Solution reached to save Day Travelcards

    All ID 54 was saying was that it made his life simpler.End of.
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    Solution reached to save Day Travelcards

    That's okay then.Don't worry about the minority if they just fade into insignificance.

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