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I was impressed by SNCF's railcard integration - I was able to buy a railcard in advance to start on the first day of my travel (so my 12 month validity didn't start till I actually travelled). But I couldn't buy the ticket without being sure of having a valid railcard at the time of travel...

I had a problem when using a multi-operator East Sussex ticket purchased on the Stagecoach app (which didn't disable NFC) on a Ticketer machine on a Brighton & Hove bus.

You should be able to find details of the ticket in your email, unless you routinely delete your emails.

You can't buy gift cards on Amazon with your Amazon gift card balance.

I'm managing an effective 22% off my train tickets - 10% cashback as an Uber One member, then 10% off the gift cards via Amazon, stacked with an elevated 2% Amazon credit back via my Amazon Barclaycard (doubled from 1% for Spring Deals Days)

Lymington Pier vs Lymington Town

There's a coffee kiosk in a horse box - the Little Green Coffee Box - immediately outside Bournemouth Station (under the station canopy) that does a very decent coffee and is infinitely preferable to the Starbucks inside the station.

I miss the ByTrain app which was hands down the cleanest and slickest iOS train departures app. I currently use the app called 'UK Live Train Times' but the navigation is clunky. Especially when you quickly want to see departures at your nearest station

Train departure information near interchanges has been rolling out on GSC buses since late last year.

This seems to me like the kind of thing where contacting your MP might be useful - a letter from your MP on your behalf to Lord Hendy and the MDs of SWR and XC is likely to get this resolved very quickly.

Uber currently offering a one-time 10 per cent discount on gift cards directly from Uber as a Valentine's deal

I once did a bike ride crossing the river by as many means as possible (Canary Wharf to Rotherhithe Ferry, Cable Car, Woolwich Ferry, etc etc)

Meanwhile Bournemouth University is cutting the U2 service between Poole and Talbot Campus from half-hourly to hourly (and also cutting the holiday-time service on the U1 from every 15 minutes to half-hourly) https://www.unibuses.co.uk/u1-and-u2-changes-23-february

You do often hear this when trains are crush-loaded - people don't express it as a demand for 'compulsory reservations' but it's common for people to wonder why more tickets are sold than seats (without thinking through the consequences)

I'm currently weekly commuting to London on a route where I have the choice of train, NatEx and Flixbus. I'm using a combination of all three, but I like the fact that Flixbus's tickets are exchangeable / refundable (with the % fee increasing nearer the time of travel), so I've been able to...

As mentioned in the Flixbus thread, the 061 is going up to 9 journeys a day from April. Source: Flixbus journey planner.

Route 061 London to Poole now showing additional journeys bookable from 1 April - as many as 9 trips a day

Roger French did a blog post on the Matlock situation last summer https://busandtrainuser.com/2025/08/28/a-day-in-delightful-derbyshire/

last week at Waterloo. Image shows scrambled departure board.

The deal with Indra has now been signed, it seems: Reuters report via MSN Spanish technology group Indra has won a contract from Transport for London (TfL) to run the ticketing and control systems across the city's public transit network in a deal worth up to 975 million euros ($1.1 billion), it...