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Following on from this, what happens at a major railway station (such as Waterloo, Victoria etc) if the PIS plays up? I noticed whilst rushing for my train this week one of the subsequent departures pages on the orange LED screens was jammed to the one from earlier in the afternoon. Does the...

What's wrong with a flat fare model a la TFL for one way journeys and then max cap equivalent to an all day bus pass (or equivalent)? Seems to work for TFL, and the speed for boarding is very good. Only one tap to register the card, virtually no lengthy interaction required with the driver to...

I don't know if it's just the nice weather making people dawdle, but I have been driving around in my locality on the weekend and a lot of drivers (typically those with stupidly large SUVs are the worst offenders) have seen it fit to drive at well below the speed limit - e.g. 30/25 in a 40mph...

All very useful tips, many thanks for pointing it out. I think I'll look at how it all shapes out in the first month and consider the Z1-6 travelcard. Pain that the TFL zonal area does't stretch to Walton/Weybridge, as could probably bus it to Surbiton/Hampton Court from Walton, as the local...

I lost my USB phone charging cable and wanted to try and get a replacement, they wanted north of £20 for a very short cable. Completely get the captive market aspect but I just winced at the excessive profiteering and made do without, phone was completely dead. Although being purchased by...

I don't believe the misty cooling is - not in my local store anyway. It got ripped out when Morrisons got bought, so I presume it disappeared with the rest of the estate. Interesting to learn it had a practical use, I always thought it was more for retail theatrics, as in ooh it looks fancy...

Thanks for the heads up, so if I bought it via someone else other than SWR I would just take whatever smartcard they are offering as part of the package, and use that? TFL seemed like a luxury - if you have the Oyster you could manage it in any TFL machine. I don't think anyone chooses to go...

Thanks for helping me understand the Travelcard system better, it's good that it stands in its own right, and the TFL zonal aspect overrides the fact it's a SWR station, and for pointing out the other valid routes if I go via Weybridge. It seems the travelcard w/train ticket options are also...

Ok, many thanks for the answers and that it'll work on London Buses. Sorry if I come across as a little green, I've never really done the monthly rail season ticket with travelcard thing before and I have always been used to being within the TFL zones so it's relatively straightforward as I...

Good morning, Relatively straightforward one I'd think, but if you buy a season ticket (monthly or weekly) with a starting point of a National Rail station (e.g. Weybridge) plus Zones 1-6 travelcard on the same ticket, do you always have to start your journey at the National Rail station or can...

Interestingly the M&S next door to WHS in Ealing Broadway is a franchise operation run by guess who? WHS. Probably deliberate to get people in next door.

Beware of the specially made/modified sizes for the value retailers. Often it's smaller to try and fit the price bracket and may work out more expensive or not any cheaper at all!

For the no photograhy at the school concerts it's a safeguarding/child protection thing. However, in religious places it's probably to do with the space being sacred and respecting the sanctity as a visitor, and also some people will be in reflection/prayer and do not want a camera shoved in...

It's always a case of what has private equity ever done for a company? You're not alone in your views of the staff in Morrisons / Asda being more surlier since the acquisition, I have noticed this too. The stores also seem more poorly maintained /scruffier, it is obvious that the debt pile is...

Probably a bit of everything that makes it so. - For the large items people find a man with a van on facebook/gumtree etc doing waste clearance, paid them a fee, the man pockets said fee and leaves the rubbish down a country lane. - Councils charge or are just difficult for collecting bulky...

Waitrose have always done the centralised reduction thing for the loose baked goods, not as clever as them changing the shelf tickets electronically, but they adjust the price on the computer in the back of the store and just place the reduced shelf label with the new price on for each set of...

Tesco also had another deliberate policy years ago of placing discontinued lines ending .97 as some sort of 'secret' code.

All just shows how unfriendly the system can be for a casual or infrequent rail traveller. I can understand if say your train is scheduled to be at 12:00 the doors being shut at 12:00:40 and the train leaving at 12:00:58 but where on the ticket is it written that you can't board your departing...

I'm sure I have seen recently UPS vans in the UK with a sliding front door.

I got a taste of what the future might be like amongst all of the engineering work between Surbiton and Clapham this weekend and rode a 701 for the first time, completely by chance. Very smooth quality of ride and quiet inside in the carriage (from a mechanical point of view, not the passengers...