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    Vic Platforms 9 To 14 Blocked By Points Failure On Oct 20th+21st

    On Monday 20th and Tuesday 21st October I arrived at Victoria station to get my usual 2325 train home to Ockley only to find that on Monday evening, my 2325 was shown as Cancelled on the train departure boards while on Tuesday evening, 21st October, the train mysteriously simply wasn't listed on...
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    2325 Horsham Via Dorking 5 Carriage Upgrade

    Just to report that after months of often overcrowded conditions since the September 5th timetable changes on the 2325 from Victoria to Horsham via Dorking on especially Thursday and Friday due to only a 4 car train unit tonight we miraculously had a 5 carriage train restored to us. Also this...
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    Unexplained 4 Minutes Extra Waiting At Dorking Northbound

    Can anyone with knowledge of train timetabling or train pathing and train diagrams please explain to me why since the merger of Victoria to Horsham Semi Fast trains with Victoria to Epsom Slow services on Sept 5th 2022 an extra and seemingly totally unnecessary
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    Uber Travel Still Bug Filled And Near Impossible To Use For Rail Tickets

    I only just came across the previous now closed discussion at www.railforums.co.uk/threads/uber-retailing-national-rail-tickets.237691/page-2 and also only just spotted the Travel option in the Uber App having only taken about one Uber ride in the last three months after taking them almost once...
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    Weird Additional Sutton to Horsham Only Train Tonight

    I have just spotted a weird addition to Southern's timetable tonight in the shape of the additional 0024 service originating at Sutton and running south through all the usual stations via Dorking to Horsham except that this train is a Set Down Only at all stops en route effort instead of just...
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    Historical timetables for the Horsham-Dorking line

    It would be very interesting if anyone knows where I can access comprehensive timetable archives that show what the service used to be on the line in the 1950s, 60s, 70s and 80s. I know what the service pattern was after 1996.
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    Meet The Manager - Abolished In Person And Not Held On Zoom Instead

    I have tried using the forum search function but apparently so great is the supine nature of most of the UK's population in accepting the great shutdown forever on account of COVID World Economic Forum type narrative (all closely tied in with the great global warming and please stop traveling...
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    Dorking To Horsham - No Weekday Evening Or New Years Day Service

    As I currently have no access to a car and am completely reliant on Southern train services from Ockley Station I am writing this post to ask firstly why Southern did not run any train services at all from Dorking to Horsham on New Year's Day (Saturday 1st January), when they do normally provide...
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    Do Unmanned Stations Still Have Station Managers?

    In the course of pursuing issues that I currently have with various rail fare websites (including that of National Rail who claim to be the "definitive source") not offering either any fare or a return fare on journeys from my local station (Ockley in Surrey) and its two neighbouring stations...
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    Journey involving rail replacement bus from Ockley

    On a related note not far away services from Dorking to Horsham are being replaced on a Saturday and either for one or two whole weeks during August by Rail Replacement Buses due to works on the embankment near Ockley station that I live close to. Having recently had a problem with my car that...
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    Ockley To Rainham (Kent) No Fare & 150% Overcharge Fares

    Last Wednesday (27th July) I needed to travel from my home station of Ockley (Surrey) to the nearest station to my sister's house in Rainham (Kent not Essex), a journey all of which can be conducted via two train companies owned by Govia; GTR (Southern brand) and South Eastern services. The...
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    Super Off-Peak Stations With No Super Off-Peak Travelcard

    Can anyone here please try and explain to me on what possible insane basis of total immorality or illogic Southern Railway refuses to offer Super Off-Peak Travelcards and only offers more expensive Off-Peak Travelcards (who's only advantage is that they can be used half an hour earlier in the...
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    TVMs Charging Peak Hour Fares On Bank Holiday!!!

    This is just to say I arrived Today (Bank Holiday Monday August 26th 2019) at the auto barriered entry only side of Horsham station so had to buy a ticket from the TVMs there before the barriers to gain entrance to the station to catch my train. On selecting Cowes East and Return from the...
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    Ryde Hoverport Not Available From Automated Ticket Machines

    Can anyone here please explain to me why it is that at a manned ticket window of apparently any train operating company (not in any case available at my local unmanned station of Holmwood) I can happily buy a Network Card discounted ticket to Ryde Hoverport but I cannot do the same thing at any...

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