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The tram crash was on the upper part of the line - a failure of the single line working procedure, when an extra tram got forgotten. One of the issues delaying reopening is that I understand it left them a serviceable tram short. Virtually all the tramway is single track with passing loops (the...

As others have said, the tram is currently suspended (following an incident). While originally (many years ago!) it was rack, since the 1930s it has been a funicular, with the trams propelled by (resting against) a 'dummy' at the downhill end - one of the dummies is parked at the bottom of the...

Have been to Trieste, but used Venice airport, not Treviso. Your options would seem to be to get local bus to Treviso station, or express ATVO bus to Mestre ('Venice on Mainland') - check the airport website for links to bus company websites, for times and how to buy tickets (in Trieste tickets...

Maybe or maybe not: all they did was put an X in the box. Nobody else knows what they thought they were voting for: what they did vote for was to Leave the EU. But as what 'Leave' actually meant was never defined, beyond a change from 'UK is a member' to 'UK is not a member', if it is isn't what...

The referendum decision was that the country should 'Leave the European Union', rather than 'Remain a member of the European Union', no more and no less. While various ideas elaborating what this meant were put to the electorate as part of the referendum, none of these are binding, and neither...

See at https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/11/top_judge_mulls_compulsory_mobile_phone_carrying/ ... cue comments on the unworldliness of judges... But I did read a report that the security services were regarding not having a phone as suspicious.

Which is why I put know in quotes. As - essentially - does everybody travelling on a train not specifically identified on their ticket. (I will leave it to others to discuss whether there a circumstances in which a ticket would not be valid on a train specifically identified on it). Correct...

Why should they? - they already 'know' the answer to that question (it is a permitted route, ticket is route ANY PERMITTED, so yes it is). Whether the route is reasonable is no longer relevant. Was via Stafford regrded as reasonable under BR? But anyway, the consideration now is whether it is...

Just seeking an answer to my question, which so far no-one has provided. And - let me point out - my question is not whether Euston-Wolverhampton is a permitted route, or not; nor why this should be (answers to both of which have been given). In this case the 'different ticket' is route ANY...

But the the NR web site I quoted, states that routes for which a ticket is offered are permitted routes. As Euston-Stafford-Wolverhampton is such a route, it is permitted. So an EUS-WVH route ANY PERMITTED ticket should be valid via Stafford. How is the holder of such ticket expected to know...

Talk of driving licences as id, reminds of the story of one friends, driver on the **** Railway, asked to show his driving licence (when not in his car, so not obviously driving), showed his **** Railway one... Query - do drivers on National Rail have licences? I recall, a few years ago, that...

Based on what I wrote in my earlier posts, yes.

To clarify what I meant, the 'this' referred to the immediately preceding question - what the fares are (even if known) doesn't affect it (the question). So I will ask again, given that ANY PERMITTED should be valid via Stafford, how is an ordinary traveller expected to know otherwise?

Another tip, in case you're not aware already - a very useful piece of software to have is a 'print to pdf' program (various free ones available, including dopdf and pdf24), which lets you - when you've decided what you want to print - create that as a pdf, which you can reprint as required...

As asking journey planner for times EUS to WVH (without specifying any route), generally provides options via Stafford (and does announcement/indicator display of train to Stafford and points north include a 'for Wolverhampton change at Stafford' type element?), then via Stafford is reasonable...

I would agree that paper maps are a different experience. Without knowing what you actually want, or what your budget is - and forgive me if this an egg sucking lesson - apart from the usual second hand/collectors sources (ebay, charity shop (Oxfam Chipping Norton specialise in that sort of...

But all it says is ANY PERMITTED - which I would consider to mean 'any route that is permitted by any appropriate railway source (staff member or other)', while I would interpret any official advice or advertising of a route (where I have not specified it) as indicating that it is permitted. I...

One of the questions I've had is what is - or was - the relationship between the person (whose name got given) and the address - which from the initial post was a business address (self catering holiday home) of his parents, on which basis it should be nothing to do with him, so it would appear...

The real problem here is the railway not using the word 'any' in its normal English meaning in the term ANY PERMITTED (and not normally qualifying that). As (per posts above) there is a fare EUS-STA-WVH, and the National Rail journey planner gives options that way, it is reasonable to suppose...

I find that attitude totally unacceptable. I think the number of people without what what might be required as id is much larger than anybody thinks. And that to a very large extent the problems of 'officialdom' are down assumptions live nice standard lives in standard ways - when all too often...