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I'm pretty sure there are some diverts coming up on GWR when one of the junctions near Slough (Dolphin?) gets replaced.

I never realised the Southampton suburbs/Eastleigh was classed as South London in terms of youngsters pretending to be gangsters safe in the knowledge the guard can't touch them. Can't throw them off the train under 'safeguarding' and they normally do a runner if security are floating around.

Mistakes happen, at least it only cost you 15 or so minutes rather than an hour (or even worse, an expensive taxi ride)

I completely agree with this suggestion, make it so any genuine holders have to buy at a ticket office (where the Railcard is inspected before tickets issued) or allow them to buy on board without penalty. Removal of the ability to add the JCP Railcard to online sales would reduce abuse, as I...

Or his tactics to ignore the 12 month ban on using South Eastern ;)

I can see an emergency timetable coming in at some point to free up some intercity units.

And other than the section near the railway viaducts at Stetchford, it was a reasonable quality path.

Something like a 810 would be suitable for the TfW 'long distance' route. Has the advantage of being able to switch to electric mode at Crewe to run into Manchester and use the wires from Newport into Cardiff. TfW can rejig the timetable between Shrewsbury & Cardiff, to make it 2 trains an...

And that assumes the card can be read the first time round and not take a couple of attempts to get the details to load, and to locate the relevant entry.

Fastest to where? Grantham or Newark maybe, but for anywhere in Yorkshire using EMR to Sheffield and changing onto XC the journey planners will default to the fastest route

Even if you could price people onto using the slow Thameslink service to Bedford to change onto a replacement bus to Peterborough where they might or might not make the actual connection due to traffic, you will still get people ignoring the bus as an option and prefer to use the crush loaded...

Due to having an additional call at Nuneaton maybe? Normally, the XX:33 Manchester trains are nonstop to Stafford.

On certain routes where the stations are quite close together (i.e. average of 3 minutes between stops), the guard has to make the decision to do some tickets or no tickets, especially if it's a route known for having it's fair share of "pay when challenged". Regarding railcards, it slows down...

Just look at the Electrostar & Turbostar products. A 172 (2/3) looks different to a 170 or a 172/0 or /1. Etc

It won't be the only train used by college kids, which suffers from overcrowding at times when they are heading to/from school/college. What doesn't help is college kids have a habit of not wanting to sit next to someone else ("can't sit there, next to a girl, people might think we are going...

You are aware that the replacement bus is in fact a regular scheduled service, the D&G route 100 (https://bustimes.org/services/100-hanley-stone) which just happens to accept rail tickets to Barlaston & Wedgwood. Out of the two stations, Barlaston probably is the bigger business case, at least...

15/2: 701022 (Waterloo - Dorking) Another one in my little book :)

And a professional scammer will work on the line that how many people will know what an official TfL ID card actually looks like and will have created something which will fool most passengers if they get asked for ID.

They have 6 of the 2 coach 196s, I'm pretty sure the half-hourly service needs 4 trains out, so they won't have enough to run everything doubled up.

Reminds me of late December when I was on a TfW service to Treherbert which was ~ 30 minutes late leaving Cardiff, calling all stops as booked to Pontypridd before running semi-fast to Treherbert, with the following service (also late) getting spun at one of the passing places. The timetable...