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Can't remember the consensus last time around, but ones that usually get a mention include Blackfriars to City Thameslink, Penge West to Anerley and Hillington East to Hillington West, plus a couple in the Cardiff area I don't know.

I don't think that's odd, it's just the railway's fault for pushing people to split ticketing. The invalid ticket when they checked was London U1 to Milton Keynes, what tickets someone had before that should be irrelevant. That they were checked and incorrectly allowed is also the railway's...

How do these honest passengers (yourself, presumably) witness this? How can any passenger possibly know whether another passenger has (or needs) a ticket?

It's not a splitting / joining train. The loco has to come from somewhere before the attachment, and it needs to go somewhere after detachment.

That isn't possible.

The loco needs to go somewhere and come from somewhere.

I don't want any of these things to be subsidised.

Was that wrong? It certainly took around that time for a loco swap at Crewe when that was how Euston to Holyhead was worked. Many guards would announce it and suggest people who wanted to have a smoke go on to the platform to do so.

They really won't. It's an uncontroversial policy with no political significance.

Coincidentally this thread had been closed since 2021.

This isn't true.

You travelled on the 1553, so just put it in a delay repay claim for it. There's some terrible "advice" and over-thinking on this thread. It's completely irrelevant that you thought you might have travelled on a later service - you didn't. It's also completely irrelevant if you weren't waiting...

Happy to oblige :D I agree, that seems most likely - where would want a long distance EMU that won't already have newer ones?

That's a meaningless thing for C2C to say, though. Completely unenforceable - nobody is checking a passenger's age before they board, and there's no law saying someone can't travel unaccompanied. You get this a lot though - "rules" written by someone based on what they think should be the case...

This gets said on here every so often. It's a myth, though. The 390s are pretty much identical to every other Pendolino from the same era. I suspect the origin of the myth pre-dates this forum and is something inherited from the uk.railway newsgroup, which was full of anti-Branson rhetoric at...

That looks like the edge of the toilet door on a 197 you'll have to force open after it's broken (probably nearing 50% chance) - another reason 2 car 197 services aren't acceptable. (We were told there was nothing to worry about before 197s were introduced - they'd usually run in pairs! People...

Sorry, but that's not accurate. Individual children without chaperones are driven to school in saloon taxis hired by councils.

That's just an inevitable consequence of politicians introducing pointless concessions without asking how they'll be implemented.

Well it already has a colour system, it's just not used anywhere other than maps so is pointless. I don't think simply numbering routes would help. When you're stood at St Peter's Square and have a line of "3", "7", "2" approaching you, how is that better than what happens now? Croydon...

Stick a couple of locos on them and they're ideal candidates to replace the Cardiff-Holyhead mk4s. Maybe resurrect the Manchester-Llandudno hauled train too for the services timed around Chester/Manchester commuting.