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This could be a significant detail. I'm making the assumption these tickets are somewhat cheaper than regular anytime singles? Therefore it may be financially beneficial to buy them and risk losing £10 as an admin fee than lingering and having to pay full price? Just a thought. Are all of the...

I boarded a Stansted Express with luggage recently, only travelling to Tottenham Hale. A member of staff had seen me tap in, so stopped me and made sure I wasn't going to the airport. There's signage absolutely everywhere at both the Liverpool Street StanEx gatelines and Tottenham Hale Stations...

Travel after 16:00 and you get free booze!

Strictly speaking, they're being lenient in even letting you go and collect them. Merseyrail can and will issue Penalty Fares for not collecting tickets prior to travel. By that I mean the £50/£100+fare PFs, not what you have received. I find it both interesting and, to be honest, a bit...

Well you say that... https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/wrong-train.257982/#post-6505365

Indeed it does!

The York via Harrogate will almost certainly have been advertised as Poppleton rather than York. Someone with a dead phone looking up at a board would be unlikely to even consider it-that's the whole reason it's advertised as such.

I've just been in Belfast for a week, fuel seemed pretty consistently around the 137.9 mark for Unleaded. The first petrol station I saw from my Uber when I got back to England was a Sainsbury's supermarket, usually one of the cheaper ones locally, 147.9.

I've got an advance for Portway Park & Ride to Thanet Parkway, so that's definitely been done. I travelled from Lakenheath to Duncraig once too, albeit not on a through ticket. And also Warrington West-Robroyston shortly after they both opened. Have to wonder how many Aberdeen-Penzance via...

To be fair to them, most people wanting Merseyrail tickets that don't specify "Saveaway" will just be going to Liverpool and back, so a daysaver is the appropriate ticket to sell. Though I FULLY agree with the thoughts that the daysaver is a scam, it may be a case of be careful what you wish...

First thought: Can the TOCs decide which 40% of trains they're running and then cancel them "due to a short notice change to the timetable"? :D Secondly, and this is a more serious suggestion, would TOCs possibly be better considering running trains at the extreme times of the day when there...

"Assisted by BTP" surely counts as being escorted by staff? You can alight the Fort William service Southbound, there were a number of station staff present when I did the seats Southbound asking if anyone was leaving the station. They'd presumably show you to the exit if anyone was.

Usually the fact that WBQ+WGN close after the passage of the last train, and presumably station staff were (with no criticism of them!) Unwilling to do the necessary overtime to allow the train to call. Preston and Crewe will be staffed all night due to the Sleeper calling.

They have and do run that way when Runcorn is shut and they divert via Warrington. That was the only available route when RMT signallers were out on strike. I'm not seriously suggesting they would stop at Earlestown, merely it was the first diversion that sprung to mind with a very low...

Earlestown possibly? Though dispatching a Pendo from there would be an absolute nightmare.

Avanti don't do Penalty Fares, but otherwise I'd agree. £100/50 as a "fine" is akin to private parking "fines", so doesn't seem unreasonable. They don't then slap a ticket on your car and then demand payment of the highest parking charge as well.

Pretty sure they don't allow standing. Certainly when I asked for a seat reservation a few weeks ago for a couple of journeys between Fort William and Arrochar and Tarbet I was fobbed off and lied to told that there were no reservations available and I'd have to use an alternative train...

Not necessarily. If someone gets a Penalty Fare despite the TVM not working and successfully appeals, they will have paid the single fare in both directions, assuming they're making a return journey. So will have paid nearly double the fare due. And that's before railcard discounts, assuming...

"We accept that the penalty is not due. But you still have to pay most of it anyway." The word "cakeism" springs to mind on that one!