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Some are, some aren't. If you want to means test a railcard, though, why not just do that, rather than trying to use age as a proxy for income?

Thanks. I didn't check the TPE site yesterday. You would need to change three times if you were going to/from Manchester Airport on this route, though, as the Sheffield trains only go as far as Manchester Piccadilly. NRE doesn't seem to consider the route in easement 700908 to be a valid...

Two easements were added to the routeing guide this afternoon. Changes from 12 Mar 2020 (299) to 25 Mar 2020 (300). Added: 700908 (Map) During engineering works on 22/03/2020 and 29/03/2020, customers travelling from Cleethorpes, Grimsby or Scunthorpe to Manchester or Manchester Airport may...

I'm not sure what you're trying to say with your first sentence. We have two pages on the government web site, each of which carries Grant Shapps' name. That seems to me to be the important thing about them. Do you see it differently? On train operators, the post 1 article appears to give...

Thank you, that does seem to be how it works. Looking at some other routes, there is a (00030) GN TLINK & CONN restrictions which has T records. It is a bit broken as a result. It lists HC (Heathrow Connect) rather than XR (TfL Rail), so it again fails to return results using their trains. I'm...

There are two announcements quoted in this thread on the same subject, both with today's date; one in post 1 and one in post 31. One of these does say that all franchises will be suspended. The distinction may be academic, though. I doubt any of the franchises will carry anywhere near as many...

Which protections do you mean here? There's a bit of information about cancelling a season ticket or an advance ticket, but that's all I can see which will affect a customer directly. I would not be surprised if the "all train operators" in the press release actually meant "all train operators...

Would anyone be able to tell me what prevents a "Greater Anglia Only" anytime day return from London to Cambridge (as shown on brfares.com) from being offered by sites such as nre.co.uk* for itineraries involving TfL Rail services? London-Stratford-Tottenham Hale-Stansted-Cambridge is a valid...

I believe Elecman may have fallen foul of a myth. Station operators do have a duty to ensure that people can buy tickets within 5 minutes, but you don't have any extra rights if they fail to carry it out, whoever you are.

I think you need more than a rail timetable to make sense of what Northern are doing. For example, all three of today's trains to Ellesmere Port were cancelled today. You can book a journey for Monday which uses them, but who knows if anything will show up? There's nothing about this line in the...

Some of the web sites offer a way to check if you can have a longer, cheaper journey. On nre.co.uk, for example, you would click on the "Other cheap fares" link and then on "cheapest fare finder" to get there. Anything like this should find the 18:09 from Gatwick, as it's just a single change...

Is there space to have them on the card as data? I was thinking that the ideal solution would be that a member of staff scans the smartcard and the photo comes up on the screen along with the ticket details.

Another temporary easement was added to the routeing guide this morning: Changes from 04 Mar 2020 (299) to 12 Mar 2020 (300). Easement changes: Added: 700907 (Map) This easement allows travel from London to Shenfield and beyond on replacement bus without calling at Romford during engineering...

The Oyster system is complicated, and you're only told how much it has charged you after your journey. I'm sure the helpdesk staff have been trained on what to do with customers who have been charged more for a journey than they expected. I'm equally sure that they do not wish the public to know...

I don't think they'd have given you a 9am appointment if had planned to travel from the Isle of Man that morning, as there's too much which could delay you on the way. As there's no scheduled public transport, I would expect the government to book a taxi from the harbour to the hotel, if it...

The following press release was put on the Isle of Man government web site on Thursday: To me, this suggests the government had a proportionate plan, which they have put into effect at the first opportunity. Has it not worked out?

On trainsplit, clicking on "advanced options" gives you a tickbox which would let you force it to use a different route in each direction. You'd probably only actually need to do this sort of thing if you needed to book an advance ticket in one direction, and an online only ticket in the other...

Even with regulated fares, the train company has had some flexibility over how much fares change, and it has a lot of freedom over off peak restrictions. Back in the 1990s, a Cardiff-Edinburgh single would probably have cost as much as a Cardiff-Shotts one. There's a £30 difference now, more if...

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Cefn-y-Bedd and Caergwrle are less than a mile apart. If one had a much higher service frequency, I would expect the passenger figures at the other one to fall heavily. Caergwrle and Hope are in the same situation. This is certainly an issue many people who use the line are familiar with, with...