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Although it’s inappropriate in terms of of underpaying your fares, if you really are intent on making some kind of gesture, perhaps you could send several bags of premium doughnuts to GTR’s headquarters via Uber Eats ?

Slightly off-topic, but a former colleague of mine in a different industry who was critical of local reps and remained outside the union found himself in a situation that could have led to his dismissal. He approached a rep about joining the union, with a view to being represented. The reply...

£80 now or a much larger sum later, if they get access to your journey history? Only you know how much you could be liable for…

I would agree with others and cease contact with them and start paying the correct fares IMMEDIATELY. The Vauxhall-Waterloo ‘hack’ keeps coming up on threads posted here. Look at it from the point of view of how little you are saving. £6.40 each time. Really? You have to be lucky every time...

On Sunday (16th August) there was carnage at London Victoria when trespassers on the tracks at Balham (I think) caused trains to be cancelled and delayed on the route via Clapham Junction and East Croydon. As a train was announced after a long interval, people piled onto Platform 16 and were...

There’s been no activity in recent months, but back in February I posted that a couple of units had been moved around to different platforms via the reception sidings. I think from memory the re-livery work started up again briefly, only to stop abruptly within days. The unit halfway up...

The 325s are definitely still under the roof at PRDC, at platforms 2,3 and 4. I know because colleagues ask me occasionally if there has been any news of the rebranding into a grey livery getting completed. Did anyone notice on the live-rail page that at the bottom it says ‘Flow Info: Orion...

Were you ‘in n a hurry’ on other occasions? People are assuming you used a ticket vending machine, although I note you haven’t explicitly stated that it was paper tickets. The tickets you bought during your journey were clearly purchased online, as you haven’t said you got off the train. They...

If as has been suggested, GTR are going to withdraw e-tickets from Finsbury Park to King’s Cross, it seems odd. Someone travelling from much further out would know you can tap in on Oyster/Contactless in the subway leading to the Piccadilly & Victoria lines without passing through any...

I don’t see how the most popular ticket retailing sites are to blame for people abusing the availability of e-tickets. For my own amusement, I tried to book a Brighton to Preston Park return ticket on the site promoted by this forum. Guess what? It offers to fulfill the order with e-tickets. I...

Or, in the case of Welwyn Garden City, the station opened on the main line, to replace a halt on the Hatfield to Luton branch line

Condolences to the family of the driver and my best wishes to those injured.

Details still scant, but emergency services attending Platform 1 and power has reportedly been switched off. Link to local newspaper (Brighton Argus) story here

Passed through Early Pokes on the way to Gatport Airwick the other day

When my nephew travelled with me to various football stadia, he’d often do a deliberate Spoonerism on station names. Some were phonetically amusing, if not spelt the same. One on the Thameslink network made me chuckle, He still refers to South Merton as “Mouth Certain” to this day :D Anyone...

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“emergency services dealing with an incident at Balconbe”

I don’t work for GTR, but if I read the phrase ‘Following this incident, I took immediate steps to rectify my behaviour by purchasing a monthly season ticket for my commute’, I think I’d be asking my supervisor if a trawl through past purchases would reveal other instances of short fares...

How do these battery locos gain access to the Victoria Line? Via the connecting tracks between the Piccadilly and Vic lines at Finsbury Park? Would be interesting to see how they gain access to other lines such as the Bakerloo etc

Units 325014 and one other are now in Platform 4 at PRDC, both with complete (from what I can see) grey wraparound vinyls. This leaves 2 pairs of 325s in each of Platforms 2 and 3 (six units in total) 1776883118 Do Kingsbury now have a dominate market position? If so, could they get away with...