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It is utterly mind blowing that the whole rail industry in its entirety has failed at any point in recent years to sit down and ask, is the way we are screening and prosecuting cases actually legal. The risks are clearly much higher in a fragmented industry for a whole bunch of very obvious...

I understand an issue has arisen with the industry accused of using lay prosecutors to represent the relevant company in court to utilise its prosecuting powers. As far as I am aware the rules around the qualifications required to utilise statutory powers of prosecution in court are clear and...

Exactly. I don’t necessarily object to not spending lots of money on functionality that is likely to be redundant very soon. Although it is still unclear to me why it would cost lots more for the TVMs to be set up to print ToD not involving a cross London change or a bike reservation. It it...

So if you live in Alsager or any other station with this TVM type you cannot buy online a ticket that involves cross London travel (not exactly an unlikely scenario) or a ticket with any bike reservations. Not so Smart TVM then. So much for the ability to buy a ticket from any station to any...

It is on topic. What happens if you buy a ticket and it tells you you can’t collect from, for instance, Alsager and tells you the nearest station you can collect from is Stoke on Trent. Are you subject to a penalty fare if you travel from Alsager to Stoke on Trent without having collected your...

What happens if you do want a cross London ticket from one of the machines that does not issue CCST tickets? Does it block the option? I agree on chat gpt. However, in this case it has ended up being more accurate on the question than EMR’s own website. Interestingly by pulling the information...

In this case it is the only TVM. How do the TVMs work then now. I am assuming that the purpose of a TVM is to issue a physical ticket. Are you saying that some might not issue CCST tickets and if they are that type they won’t allow you to buy cross London tickets? Or do all TVM’s still only...

It’s a shame we have to move away from it. I am used to larger tickets with barcodes in Europe but at least they tend be more substantial. I am not talking about pre-booked tickets, but tickets that are sold to you in person on clown paper. It is the really flimsy nature of the UK choice that...

Agreed a bar code ticket it the norm but when it needs to be printed, it is a bit silly that the industry has let it be printed on something other than a credit card size piece of card. It is extremely easy to lose non-credit card size pieces of card. It really does seem like a case of it...

Yes why is it so comically large. Did somebody just forget to think about about that? Presumably it as easy to make something of a normal credit card size ticket come out rather than something so huge (which will also cost more over time). It really does increase the chance of losing the ticket...

Have they installed sub par ticket machines though? The one at Alsager doesn’t allow you to pick up tickets. Also, why would they install a machine that doesn’t allow you to pick up tickets when there are clearly machines available that do? 1755938750 And you would need to educate people so...

I am sure the management consultancy brought in to trial more aggressive elastic pricing with LNER is having a lovely time claiming these two things that keep coming up. However, it is a debate that needs to be had in public, with real and transparent figures unless the railway would like its...

Hi, I am increasingly struggling to figure out if there is any logic remaining as to when advance fares are available. I quite fancied a smash and grab hike on Monday and thought there might be some decent advances going north London to York very early Monday morning. There aren’t. Whilst...

They might be a bit off topic but the OP is still enjoying reading them, with a little annoyance about some of the ones I appear to have missed. Are there any good loopholes remaining? I accept the point about Virgin being bad at bumping up Anytime fares. However, I still found their...

I was completely thrown by this when changing at Liverpool South Parkway just now. As somebody who changes at LSP to Southport but infrequently, it is at least a novelty to have to change at Central as well.

Well that is certainly more than opinion then! I would love to see the income figures of Virgin vs Avanti now. I am not saying Virgin did not go too far with advances, although I can count on less than one hand when that caused me problems. However, my sense is that Avanti have gone way too far...

Are there any statistics to back that up or is it more of an opinion? As a regular user I remember full trains (as opposed to the half empty ones I keep catching these days, including today with 2/3 of seats on my carriage available on the last service before the peak period) but not a huge...

Inspired by lots of interesting threads in here, I have been thinking what is the best move made in fares in the last couple of decades. One that had the potential to answer the question of good revenue vs flexibility. Acknowledging a peak period whilst making fares accessible. There is a...

In your reply you already mention some of the functionality that doesn’t pull through well! A big one for me is booking bike spaces. It seems to be improving now and Trainline seems to be pulling it through but it is all a developing story and it is really really hard to keep up what you can and...

Thanks for the thoughtful replies on all those points Watershed. That has really improved my knowledge as to how best run the gauntlet of trying to get from A to B on usual journeys without being fleeced by the system for its own errors! I think I will: - book the through ticket where it does...