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Well obviously rules cannot be framed in terms of how the cash (or cards, or whatever) in peoples' wallets are "earmarked", so we might as well say "pay if you feel like it but not if you don't" and be done with it. That is what all this theoretical wriggling about not paying adds up to. No...

Cardiff, in particular, seems to have been built and operated for decades with the express purpose of discouraging people from using it. As you say, there was once a period where this wasn't quite the case but this has since been confirmed as a temporary blip. :roll:

I'm afraid governments and societies are not so neatly decoupled as one might infer from this. Funnily enough, I've seen an "approach" to the problem that is about as far from the Daily Mail as one can get. I now live in Scandinavia and, in some respects, where I live might be regarded as...

It is acceptable to society, inasmuch as society would not and will not permit the sort of intolerance wished for above. If you do it on the railways you have to do it everywhere else. The costs, both direct in terms of enforcing the rules and the (arguably more important) indirect ones of...

I agree generally, but you can't always lump all the low-cost carriers together in this sense. I flew London-Athens around 4-6 times per year throughout the 2000s (leisure flights, often weekends, usually booked a couple of months in advance) and only ever took EasyJet once - one of the legacy...

It's very trendy to say this sort of thing, but I could hardly agree less. The standard at League 2 and thereabouts is abominable. (Before you ask, I spent many years going to football at Conference Premier level or thereabouts). If you can get excited about Neanderthals hoofing the ball up and...

On reflection I find such incidents to be moderately sinister, in a Rise of The Machines kind of way. After all, at such times the network is in chaos and the witterings of Doris or Celia are worse than useless, yet there seems to be lacking a human being with the presence of mind or the...

When it properly goes tits up it's somewhat funny (so long as you're not too worried about any actual information). I remember once being at Woking when pretty much all of SWT was down. There was continuous automated gibberish for a sustained period.

Landing back in the UK on a Friday evening, catching a Stansted Express and then a SWT out of Waterloo highlights very starkly some of the real differences between trains where I now live and those in Blighty: 1. Trains in the UK (at least on a Friday evening in the SE) absloutely stink of...

Quiet zones on trains in Norway where I live mean no talking (and in my experience it's observed). You can still use your electronic devices silently, however.

What are those grounds? Genuinely interested, but will suggest that "common sense" or "it's obvious" are not acceptable answers. Also, this question specifically refers (as others have said above) to an RPI attempting to confiscate something that is not railway property. I'd probably not ask the...

I detest the compensation culture as much as the next man - and really don't like the :wink:s and :Ds that you sometimes see on here after posters report securing compensation on the thinnest of grounds. Nonetheless, at face value this is a very major screw-up and in my view some fairly...

But of course beware the possibility of the guard saying yes (worse, saying an extra ticket is not necessary), gateline staff saying no, and finding yourself in a "man on the train said it was OK" scenario.

Pedantry is only important when it's important - when precision adds value to the information. But in this case, where the word "fine" was used (as many people do use it) to mean "amount of money that causes bad stuff to happen if it remains unpaid" then pedantry is pointless. I hesitate...

IANAL but I nonetheless wouldn't hesitate in opining that this is terrible advice.

Consider carefully how to interpret this piece of advice. :lol:

Says who? I am pretty positive if you ask the average passenger the following questions you will get the following answers: Q: What does the timetable show? A: The time that the train leaves the station. Q: When do you need to be on the platform? A: Er... before the train departs.

It's half that, if A to B is the same as B to A - there are just over 3 million distinct station pairs. I am intrigued where the numbers in the region of 300 million, let alone 3 billion, come from. Even the lower of these numbers implies that there are, on average, about 100 different...

This is the thread in a nutshell. I have never been in such a position but if I were, I like to think I would have thought exactly like this. Staff who would rather sell the 1000th CDR to London that day rather than have an RJ sidle up to the counter need to rethink their working practice in my...

Fabulous. :D