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"No-one can stop the fury and the terror of the Horror Express!" https://collider.com/horror-express-horror-movie/ They don't make 'em like that any more. :D

Thailand has the PromptPay system which works in the same way. https://www.bangkokbank.com/en/personal/digital-banking/promptpay

A Reliant Scimitar, decaying in a neigbour's front garden for years.

Thank you, @yorkie and @Mr. Jeeves. I generally find it quicker and easier to hand over a paper ticket to my 2Together partner than forward her the email, and easier to feed a paper ticket into a slot at the gateline than scan an eticket. As GWR/TFL haven't been able to sort this problem for 2+...

It was a Super Off-Peak Return. I hadn't considered the potential for a conversation with revenue staff - I was more concerned about the possibility of someone finding me in 'their' seat or vice versa.

Before, with all details confirmed by email.

Hi. Here's what I got, and I did make a reservation online. Last time I posted about this, the consensus was that it had been a printer fault.

I posted a while back about how a TVM at Ealing Broadway gave me a blank seat reservation coupon for our GWR tickets. It happened again in December - quite possibly from the same machine - so I sent a complaint using the online form. GWR have replied asking for the time, date and location of the...

I was thinking about London terminals, forgot about the rest of the country. Doh!

'Clockwise', a farce from 1986 starring John Cleese. Chaos ensues after he boards a train for Plymouth instead of the train to Norwich from the adjacent platform. Impossible, surely?

Noooo! Headbolt Lane, which for me at least always conjures up an image of Frankenstein's monster, MUST stay. The proposed alternatives are unacceptably prosaic. One day I will actually use the station...

The tea was free thanks to my GWR Rewards

I am on a GWR service between Paddington and Bristol. The Customer Host has just announced a special offer: any hot drink and a chocolate biscuit £4.10. With a croissant it's £5.00. Err, no thanks. I dread to think what the normal price is.

Not just feral kids. About a week ago I saw an old man shamble onto a bus and past the driver making no effort to touch in. The driver tapped on his window a couple of times - no reaction and he had a schedule to keep so we drove on. The old man exited the bus a couple of stops later and...

Presumably to avoid confusion with national rail platforms?

I have reached out to request this and wished them Merry Xmas. 1766218517 They have given me a case reference but done nothing about it, par for the course.

GWR are very nonchalant about Xmas planned engineering work this year. https://www.gwr.com/travel-information/travel-updates/planned-engineering/christmas

Located in Edogawa, 1 minute walk from Kasai Station on the Tokyo Metro Tozai Line. https://www.chikahaku.jp/ Adult tickets 220 yen (about £1), child tickets 100 yen. There's enough here for an hour, or 90 minutes if you take it slowly. There are plenty of English captions and a couple of...

I do the weekend first upgrade withe GWR quite regularly. On time, the customer host called over the train manager to sell me the upgrade before offering the complimentaries. Another time, the host bawled out to the entire carriage "Has everyone here got a ticket? Don't make me check." Lovely.

As happened to James B. Sikking in the 1990 movie Narrow Margin. He was standing on the roof of a carriage with his back to the direction of travel and didn't see the oncoming tunnel. It made Gene Hackman flinch.