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Have you seen him do a talk? If so, how much of it is about his railway travels? (I imagine a lot of it would be about his political career).

Not much I admit. But, I've noticed in recent series he's re-visited towns he's been to before, and focused on a different aspect of that town. I still like him doing that.

I enjoy watching Michael Portillo's Great British Railway Journeys every year. So far, they've broadcast one series every year from 2010 onwards, always in January. The Facebook page about this tv series has just announced that starting in January there's going to be a new series of Great...

A further question would be this: In my example as quoted in my opening comment, it costs me exactly the same to travel to station C as it does to station B. This is despite station C being further than station B. In fact, I could name maybe 15 or 20 stations that are further away from me than...

Thanks for your input, everybody. I found out this loophole last week when I was actually travelling to station C, and realised that there was no evening restriction with tickets to/from that station. So, are ways of saving money considered "loopholes", not "cheats" ? I suspect there are...

Very interesting. I'd like to know, in the instance(s) where the staff wrongly refused to sell you a ticket, did you have to reluctantly buy a more expensive ticket, but you got a refund after you complained? And also, did you take the name of the ticket office staff member when you reported...

Thanks for the reply, and for your private messages. I know if I do this, I'm not going to over-complicate things by telling the ticket office staff what I'm doing. But, just suppose, how do you think the ticket office staff might react if I walked in and said something like: "I want a return...

I see it all the time when I'm buying a ticket: The person in front of me in the queue will ask for a day return and the person selling the ticket will say, "I have to make you aware that with this Off-peak Day Return ticket you can't return during the evening peak time". Why can't the person...

I'll be vague about exact details with this question, so: A = Home station B = Station in large city C = Station on suburbs of the same large city. To get there from home, I must change at B. With an off-peak day return from A to B, I'm told I can't use that ticket to return home from...

Often times, there have been two or more toilets on board, but many times I've been on a train with just one toilet (or one operational toilet).

DIsclaimier: I'm not saying I'm going to do this. What if I were to get hold of the square key used to unlock the toilet doors from the outside (or, I make a key). Then, after knocking on the door without response, I open the toilet door myself. This is after being beyond reasonable doubt...

Surely there must be something I could do?

Thanks for your comment. But the West Midlands Railway "Penalty Fares" leaflet says you can't use the excuses that either you arrived late at the station or that the queue was too long...

I'm not afraid to admit I have bladder problems and I need to urinate frequently. I might be able to go for perhaps an hour without going to the toilet, but not much longer. For that reason, I always have to sit near a toilet on a train. It really, really annoys me when I need to use the...

My friend always asks me this question and I can never find a satisfying answer. There are signs around my local station and on the trains themselves (run by West Midlands Railway) saying a passenger must but a ticket before they board the train, if that's possible. So, if there's a ticket...

Has Bristol Temple Meads always been the most centrally-located station for Bristol? (Rather than there once having been a station closer to the centre but it closed a long time ago). Also, why does Bristol Temple Meads have such an elaborate name? Why was it never called just simply "Bristol"...

Birmingham New Street and Liverpool Central are very close to their city centres. Edinburgh Waverley and Glasgow Central as well.

Excluding the special case of London, all other large UK cities have a station near the city centre. Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle, Hull, Leeds, Sheffield, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Nottingham, Leicester, Cardiff - They all have a station either right in the city centre, or very near...

Thanks for your additional information. Please can you tell me, how exactly does it work when that happens and the TOC has to pay for a taxi or a accommodation? I mean, paying for it. I can imagine that if your destination station is manned, the staff there will have to arrange something and...

Although in my example there was no later return journey, this raises a further interesting question. If there were a later train that would get you home the same day, would they let you take use your advance purchase ticket on that later service? [if your outward journey is severely delayed...