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Many thanks to the RailUK tickets team for making it so easy for me to get a full refund of tickets (including one Advance) booked for 25 June. Hope the Do Not Travel warning entails that retailers possibly retain some commission for their nugatory work?

TfL's journey planner suggests from Praed Street via Gloucester Road or Earls Court. Am I right in supposing that it's more pleasant via Hammersmith&City to Hammersmith, provided that I don't mind the (short?) walk from Hammersmith H&C to Hammersmith District Line? For which, I think, I have to...

Moderator note - split from: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/delay-repay-who-pays.297560/ I think my case is similar, but more extreme. So I'm hoping that you sages will put me right. Edit: Sorry, anyone who bothered to read this. Chiltern, as the operator of the initial delay, are paying.

Do members know of any examples of a station where there is a general car park on one side, and a small car park, only for blue badge holders, on the other? I ask this because a narrowed version of the historic approach road to the Up platform at Radley still exists, currently as a private...

(edited to clarify that phone was charged: apologies for sowing some confusion) My grandson was, correctly I am sure, refused boarding at a station near me, because his phone not working (but was charged) and he could not display his ticket. Thanks to the kindness of a stranger, he was able to...

Why does LNER price a super offpeak single Brockholes to London Terminals, route any permitted, £76.30? And is it actually possible to buy it?

The Government has announced that Advances are the way forward, at least in the north. The press release claims that: Personally, I regard 'Advances' sold a few minutes before your train is due, and ensnaring you if you get in a slight muddle, as a Cruel Deception. Link to press release...

1. Between each pair of adjacent stations, set, and publish, a 'fare distance'. This can be the same as the actual distance, or less (e.g. in the Far North or the Heart of Wales), or more (e.g. between Bedford and St Pancras, or Slough and Paddington). 2. Set one Great British price per 'fare...

According to real time trains, today 12 July 2M32 1235 Didcot Parkway to Banbury arrived at, and departed from, platform 1 at Oxford. So, did it run through, and then set back into platform 1? If so, any suggestions about why?

We're considering a once-in-a-lifetime journey to Italy via the Bernina Express line (but in an Allegra coach), possibly this September/October. We envisage stopping off for a few days at one of Poschiavo. Le Prese, or Alp Grüm, and then using the Little Red Train to visit the other two. Do...

I totally accept that pathing is not for amateurs, and there may be many pitfalls not apparent to me. I am just wondering why, on summer Sundays, 2M42, the 0944 from Oxford to Banbury, could not leave Oxford at, say, 0951, thus providing a connection from 1W35, the 0846 from Paddington to Great...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/east-west-rail-ewr-driver-training-and-route-learning.275902/ Why does this thread title buy into the "East West" hype? The jobs of the East West Rail company are to push for the approval of a new railway from Bedford to Cambridge...

Would I be wise to expect that services to and from Paddington will not resume from mid-morning, as the published timetables state / hope?

An elderly relative, who is a nervous traveller, is booked today (20 Dec) on the 1516 from Oxford to Bournemouth. This is now terminating at Winchester. Clearly she can, in principle, continue on any reasonable train from Winchester to Bournemouth. And, I guess, will probably get a seat...

Assuming that trains between Oxford and Bletchley run as planned from May 2025, so that the LNWR's proud claim to serve Oxford, still visible on one of the Euston gatehouses, becomes once more true, will tickets Oxford to London Terminals be valid via Bletchley?

Is there any hope of suppressing the unfair fares to (some?) London Overground stations (or will I have to await Great British Rail)? For example, there is a £52.50 SVR fare Oxford<>London Fields. The forum's booking site, of course, knows about this scam, and offers me, instead, Oxford<>U1-2...

Is it Just One of Those Things that today, 13 Oct, 1Z35 (destination cut back from Worcester to Oxford) and 2L36 were planned to arrive simultaneously at Radley? [Screenshot shows these trains on realtime trains]

The ambitions were set out HERE, including maps. Local reports are that Phase 2A, level crossing closures at Yarnton etc, is postponed / abandoned, because lots of new freight paths are not currently being demanded. Phase 2B, faster turnouts north of Oxford, is I think completed. Phase 2C...

On 15 April I journeyed from Radley to Southampton Central, Radley depart 0804, CrossCountry due to depart Reading 0853 cancelled. CrossCountry's delay-repay bot responded as follows: To their credit, GWR's bot said: GWR's bot could, of course, explain better: 'the service which caused your...

GWR have announced proposed departure times for 2 trains a day on Saturdays, starting September 2024, from Bristol Temple Meads to Oxford and back. No information about what rolling stock. https://news.gwr.com/news/great-western-railway-planning-to-restore-direct-bristol-oxford-services The...