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    York Station Saturday Night Clownocracy

    Unfortunately whilst for many a peaceful drink is a welcome enjoyment on the journey home sadly there's a small minority where it just leads to anything from minor nuisance to serious trouble. I certainly enjoy a few beers. I don't tend to when on trains but no problem with those that do...
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    Anytime Break of Journey

    Ok here's my first correspondence: -- question -- I wonder if you could help me with a question about ticket validity. A off peak day return ROM-SOU - is valid (at off peak times) as best I understand it via CFR/ESL (at least on direct trains) OR via redbridge - allows for break of...
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    Anytime Break of Journey

    Lol.. a little more prep first. I've emailed SWT to ask them.. will try national rail enq too. worth a shot, plus also verifying another multi-hop I have already done a few times around the loop for a fun day out! (though at the more expensive price)
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    Anytime Break of Journey

    Thanks.. that's what I'd expected. I read through the thread again and can see the reference to romsey-sou only being permitted on a through train. That's defined in the routing guide as Through Train A through train is one which runs between the origin and destination stations and on...
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    Anytime Break of Journey

    Thanks for the reply, certainly the UK rail system is fascinating, though in different ways. personally I'm more keen on the engineering & architecture! Fares are something else... Though I've read for a while, in this case I can only see ROM-SOU is shown by national rail enquiries as both...
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    Anytime Break of Journey

    Interesting as if I want to meander around the loop (one direction) I just get a ticket to the most expensive point on the basis that is valid for the full loop... Perhaps I should look into validity rules closer! So would a rom-sou return be just fine for cfr-sou? It would seem so? Could such...
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    One Two-Together Ticket - Are Virgin EC Correct?

    As an aside I bought a ticket with my network railcard... Via machine swt. Then whilst at the station a friend turned up to join us (all travelling together). I went with him to the ticket office where the member of staff was pretty unhappy about selling an additional railcard discounted ticket...
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    Virgin's Birmingham New Street "next train to London Euston" departure boards

    One issue on occasion is what I'd really like to know is Next train to x on which my current ticket is valid (scans ticket) Sent from my GT-N8013 using Tapatalk
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    southampton signalling broken

    A friend just pointed out there's no trains (or at least few) around southampton Just seen on twitter: The issue with signalling at #SouthamptonCentral is a loss of power to control systems. Trains in the area are stopped for safety reasons.
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    Teacher wants class to travel on child tickets

    I'm a complete newbie here but has the teacher looked at proper advance group tickets? Or even walk up group 4 tickets Sent from my GT-N8013 using Tapatalk
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    Teacher wants class to travel on child tickets

    Agree. The teacher is acting fraduently and condoning such behaviour. Sent from my GT-N8013 using Tapatalk

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