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Hi all, I'm going to be travelling down to Cornwall from London on 24 December and returning on the 27th. Planning my journey, I'm not sure what to make of the fact that timetables for those days show the Pullman as being available on the 1303 from London and the 1816 from Plymouth respectively...

Hi all, Long while since I've posted here but still lurk from time to time (and use tickets.railforums.co.uk on occasions when buying in advance) so haven't forgotten about this place. Hoping for a bit of guidance/reassurance please! :) I will shortly be travelling in to central London from...

Hi all, I have a query about capping and extension fares on contactless in London because I think I've been overcharged but TfL disagree so I'm starting to wonder if I'm going a bit mad. A few days ago I made the following journeys: Bus £1.65 Bus £0.00 Potters Bar to South Kensington...

Hi all, Tell me, am I imagining it or did London buses not use to suffer too badly in snowy conditions until about a decade ago? I have been a bit perturbed today by the magnitude of service reductions in Enfield and Chingford (the areas I'm most familiar with) – some of them understandable...

Hi all, At Loughton station yesterday I saw what seemed to me to be a bit of an oddity: a 397 (a single-deck service) with its side blind set to ‘N26 Chingford Mount’. Obviously this was just a mistake, but what intrigued me was the existence of a blind that includes night services on a...

Hi all, Before ordering train tickets today I just wanted to check if GTR are still the only TOC to provide a full refund with no admin fee if ToD tickets aren't collected? I'd normally simply purchase walk-on tickets from a ticket office on the day but on this occasion I want to ensure I get...

Hi all, Bit of an odd request here. I'm trying to determine roughly where two specific scheduled services were on dates in the middle of August 2007. I don't suppose there's much I can do to work this out, but I did think that if perhaps someone has a FGW timetable from that time that they...

Hi all, Sadly, a mere three months after starting a job in London a relative has been made all-but-redundant (hours drastically slashed) so the annual travelcard she has on her Oyster won't be needed any longer. In ye olden days one could simply go to one's nearest tube station to get an...

Hi all, Just a quick question so I can help a relative with her Oyster: what's the current situation with ticket barriers at Finsbury Park? It was a hodgepodge of validators and barriers for a few years but I wondered if that's changing now that TfL are gating their part of the station...

As readers of this forum are probably aware, London is famous for having a frequent, regular, all-hours bus service… except when it comes to Christmas Day, when no TfL buses run at all. To be precise, the shutdown period encompasses the daytime plus the two nights either side. I therefore...

There's been lots of talk in recent years about adding an extra track to the West Anglia Mainline to enable extra stopping services between Stratford and Angel Road (STAR). Well, you know how this stuff gets umm'ed and ahh'ed about for so long by so many people that it's almost inevitable for...

Hi all, I did some travelling yesterday in London, and looking at my journey history today I can't make sense of what I've been charged, to the effect that I've been charged less than expected. I generally consider myself pretty knowledgeable about how the Oyster/CPC system works, but this...

Well, this is interesting. A few days ago it seems that the National Rail Enquiries blog posted something and then shortly withdrew it; I've seen it because the post – with its full content – appeared in my RSS feed. This is what it said:

Hi all, Tomorrow evening two family members and I need to make a short (return) trip by train from Gordon Hill to Cuffley followed by a bus that's covered by a Cuffley PlusBus ticket. I have a Network Railcard and my natural inclination would be to use that but, of course, there's the Mon–Fri...

A couple of separate incidents have occurred to me in the past week or so using my contactless payment card to travel around London; as a Londoner without a travelcard or Oyster-worthy railcard CPCs are useful for me with their weekly capping so have become my principal way of paying for travel...

Ever since the introduction of cashless fares on London buses, I've been a little bit nervous about the possibility of one day being stuck somewhere fairly remote with a malfunctioning CPC and therefore not being able to board a bus. (I know London buses don't go anywhere that remote, but still...

TfL have issued a press release today which, as well as including a link to the long-awaited new tube map, also includes details of the fares TfL will charge for the rail lines they're taking over. It seems that the news isn't quite as good as I was hoping! I always assumed that when LO took...

I was making a return journey by London bus with a relative of mine yesterday, who owns a Bus & Tram discount card. When touching in on the bus home she got the triple-beep that indicates activation of the ‘one more journey’ feature, which was odd as before catching the first bus of the day...

Hi all, A relative of mine will, I believe, soon be given a rail warrant for travel between Gordon Hill and Welwyn Garden City. As this is an indirect journey by rail, there're three different routes available, all of which state a via point; there is no Any Permitted fare available...

Whilst reading up about TfL's contactless payment rollout yesterday, I made a surprising discovery that CPCs don't work on the heritage routemasters on route 15. Presumably it has something to do with the use of handheld readers rather than ones fixed to the bus, but I assume that could have...