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Other than marking the card in some way, how would the holder of a normal Oyster card establish whether a railcard discount or other personalised option had been added, making the card not legal to be transferred or lent to someone else? You could for example have more than one card in a household.

The traditional route from Paddington station to Euston station would be by Circle/H&C to Euston Square. I've noticed that journey planners sometimes prefer Elizabeth to Tottenham Court Road and then Northern. I could believe that if you are already on an Elizabeth train going into Paddington...

Trainline are now advertising on ITVx that they can handle delay repay. I thought passengers had to claim this directly from the train operating companies. https://www.thetrainline.com/trains/great-britain/delay-repay

In a thread on the Disputes forum there's a statement that Is this really correct? Surely there are enough independent ticketing systems that if one doesn't work, others will? If you purchased a ToD ticket, that's only going to work for you if the ticket machine is working, but how else are...

It's known that Railcards cannot be loaded to bank cards used for contactless travel. It's also suspected that the reason is a "won't" rather than "can't". There are anomalies outside the Oyster area. For example my local station, Marlow, acquired a contactless reader after the implementation...

I am checking options for a trip from Marlow to Cambridge on Sunday 25th May, returning on Saturday 31st May. The Forum's ticket site comes up with the straightforward if slow route of GWR Marlow to Maidenhead, Elizabeth Maidenhead to Liverpool Street and Greater Anglia Liverpool Street to...

Perhaps it's a special case but I find that the website https://secure.railcard.co.uk/Account/My-Railcards/ gives access to my entire history of Senior Railcards going back to 2011-2012. I think I have always bought one year physical cards using Tesco clubcard points. Also I get reminders when...

I am checking options for a journey from Marlow (MLW) to Arsenal (ZAM), not on a match day. On the railforum site I'm getting Is this search not possible for some obscure reason? On the face of it Marlow to Zones 1/2 or a Marlow Zone 1-6 Travelcard are the appropriate tickets. Assuming my...

Try searching for the 15.53 departure from Hull to Kings Cross on Sunday 4th August (change at Doncaster to Grand Central) Why would no Super Off Peak fares be shown for this service? They are available the following week. Perhaps you wouldn't get a seat, but why couldn't someone just show up...

There's a story in the Daily Mail about ticket prices https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13442835/Passenger-quoted-1000-trains-London-Newcastle.html Checking the forum's ticket site shows numerous cheaper options with Advance tickets and splits. But why should the "average" traveller...

I happened to come across restriction code HL which restricts the ticket to Hull Trains and GWR. But what about stations with Elizabeth Line services as well, I'm thinking of Slough, Maidenhead and Twyford. The semi fast GWR service is less frequent than the Elizabeth Line albeit faster. Would...

I've been looking at trains and tickets between Kings Cross and Hull. Apart from the choice between Advance and (Super) Off Peak, there's a choice of operators. You can catch the direct Hull Trains services or LNER/Northern services changing at Doncaster. Even "flexible" Off Peak tickets are...

I have been checking fares and times for a potential journey from High Wycombe to Crewe and return, leaving midday on Friday 28th June and returning on the evening of Sunday 30th June. Using the splitticketing.com site and specifying a Senior railcard with flexible fares it offers as a possible...

Have other lapsed Railcard holders received an email inviting application for a new card? I recall that when it expired sometime last year, there was silence, not even a reminder not to purchase discounted tickets without renewing.

My Senior Railcard recently expired. I might have anticipated a reminder to renew, but there wasn't one. There's not a lot of point in renewing until I intend to go somewhere by rail. if relevant, which it probably isn't, I usually pay by Tesco Clubcard points. Are they not bothering with...

Something of a "Does anyone know" question. If I login to the site https://secure.railcard.co.uk, it tells me that my railcard is "Ordered". I fact I ordered it around a couple of weeks ago to judge from its expiry date. Does that mean that they haven't been able to send it yet? I'm aware that...

I've booked Advance tickets for Marlow to Exeter St Davids and return. It's a trip I've done a few times before, but now it seems I must wait at Maidenhead or Reading for a GWR service for the Maidenhead to Reading leg or return Reading to Maidenhead. As it happens the Marlow branch train is...

I usually use Clubcard points to renew a Senior Railcard. This message has been displayed for at least the last week. Are they likely to fix the problem in the near future?

Try a Maidenhead to Stratford return after December http://ojp.nationalrail.co.uk/service/timesandfares/MAI/SRA/191219/1000/dep/191219/1700/dep It can come up with one change. I thought trains from Paddington (low level) to destinations east and vice versa were at least a year away.

According to Wikipedia, Dollis Hill station was built in 1909. That cannot be the whole story as the current station is in 1930s art deco style which contrasts with Willesden Green, the next station towards Central London. Also according to wikipedia, it became part of the Stanmore branch of...