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"Pay contactless" also has very little to do with Covid, considering my bank once told me they had been handling rather a lot of money in branch since the middle of 2020 and had a grand total of...zero staff absences relating to Covid This Northern 'stay safe this winter' image on Twitter also...

Sounds fine to me, perhaps a targetted operation to identify those for example who buy a ticket from origin > first possible stop rather than origin > their actual stop

I would say walking round Leeds station and on board trains yesterday it was about 60/40 in favour of wearing a mask, I certainly wasn't wearing one anyway! (always amusing watching many, many people just pull their old one out of their coat pocket and shove it back in there afterwards too!)...

I needed to make a last minute booking yesterday for the 09:29 Wakefield - London service and actually was looking on the National Rail site to begin with which showed £59.00, but when I went to book it I used the LNER site which popped up with a 'direct booking saver' discount (I can't remember...

Since when has LNER offered a (rather significant) discount for purchasing tickets for their services direct via their website? (Presumably just advance tickets) E.g. a Wakefield - London advance yesterday should have cost £59 but booking it via the LNER website it was offered at £43.40!

Quite a funny story from this morning! Had a trip planned to London, 07:59 Grand Central from Pontefract Monkhill Simple 07:18 Castleford to Monkhill and change Had been on call at work all week and thought I was in the clear for the week until the phone rang at 01:15 this morning, sorted the...

Leeds and York now have Sainsbury's which are consistently busy At Leeds unsurprisingly the busiest food outlet is McDonalds, where you can probably buy a meal for about the same cost as a single sausage roll at the SSP outlets! KFC sometimes gets busy but limited seating doesn't help it out...

I was planning to stay in London for a couple of days next week myself (just doing a day trip now) and found plenty of availability in all the central areas with either Premier Inn / Travelodge for around the £40 - £50 mark Guessing demand for hotels midweek is pretty dead in January...

An interesting announcement I heard when I was recently on the Underground was 'beggars are operating on this service please do not encourage them' (not exact wording by any means!) - I assume that is an automated announcement unless a driver clocked a known beggar had boarded (as coincidentally...

This is quite topical considering a few recent threads! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60069429

I hate how apps don't have the functionality to just buy a ticket from A to B (day tickets are probably cheaper of course if making more than 1 return trip but still), so you have to ask the driver for a ticket to B and they have to faff about on their machine to find the stop/fare Tap on and...

Late to the party but there is also a Greggs at King's Cross station now too! Either Greggs are making a lot of dough (groan!) or station rents are cheaper these days it seems...

What exactly would the 'red tape' be regarding in dropping Central from Rotherham? (Surprised it wasn't considered with the 2010-2012 lick of paint!) Another odd one is New Pudsey, which is actually in Farsley a mile and a bit out from Pudsey! More like a park and ride station (or park and shop...

We used to supply work laptops to everyone but when the demand jumped from 200 remote workers to 2000 remote workers virtually overnight and there was a several month lead time on suppliers obtaining and delivering laptops it became too much of a challenge Now rather than VPN we provide Citrix...

I've noticed at Leeds the gateline late at night (sort of 11pm onwards) particularly on Friday/Saturday nights seems to be single staffed and they just leave one gate wide open An interesting 'chicken and egg' situation really as there are many services arriving into Leeds from unstaffed...