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Good morning! Question about Delay Repay on RETFORD to CAERSWS (Mon 16th Sept) Suggested route on a weekday is 4h39m and 3 changes RET > SHEF > STOCK > SHREW > CWS DEP 14:31 > arr 19:14= 4h43m I don't know why they suggest this, as there is a valid route which is is 4h10 and 2 changes, and...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00r673j It starts a little slow, but after a couple of minutes he's in full flow, and I haven't laughed so much in a long time. Clearly a lot of it is exaggerated, but also, so much of it rings true.

I have occasion to drive through mid-Wales quite often, and for the last 8 months or so, there have been some traffic lights next to a new automated barrier and equipment at Caersws. And never any workmen. And sometimes you get a collision of lights then barrier timings causing big tailbacks...

I've had no time for National Rail since ATOC nearly doubled the price of my ticket with their Simplified Train Fare scam. The snow was no excuse for the site totally failing for 2 days, but now there's no snow and it STILL fails! Or rather, the database fails - I've not been able to book an...

Can anyone connect to either: http://www.fgwtickets.co.uk/promotion_init.asp?spromotion=FGW5OFF&sitecode=FGW or http://www.arriva.trainsfares.co.uk/time_table/home_validate_timetable.asp?sitecode=ATW ? For the first, I'd like to claim my coupon, for the second I just use it to...

Putting aside whether or not I should even bother to acquaint with someone so annoying, can you settle something for once and for all? A friend has been banging on for ages about how some people dare to come into waiting room with coffee shops and just sit and take "his" seating space up...

To expand on the cryptic subject line, I found myself on an absolutely jam-packed shoulder-to-shoulder Crosscountry train from Birmingham to Bournemouth, which had been collecting "refugees" from other abandoned services. There had been a signalling power failure around the Oxford/Didcot area...

Here's an odd one - the background is contained in the letter I wrote to XC And here's the reply: Now, I'm not going to make a big issue over £6, but out of my own interest, I called XC, and the conversation went like: "Hi, can all passengers get the complimentary refreshments." "If...

Although my main interest is ticket prices, and all I seem to do is come here to bitch and moan, I thought I'd do that rare thing and say something positive! Havingnever before had a reason to get on a Southwest Trains electric train from Southampton to Waterloo, I had to get that same train...

Now, I'm sure I'm going to get ridiculed by everyone who worked this out years ago, but I've just discovered something.... If you HAVE to turn up on the day and can't book in advance, here's a trick if you have a network railcard: Booking RDG>BAN, BAN>BHM rather than RDG>BHM is a little...

Look at the attached: RDG>BHM The CHEAPER ticket is the peak travel one!! Now I'm really confused - does this make sense? Reading from National Rail, this doesn't seem right.

I always claim for delay, but having heard something on Radio 4 last week, and following a recent discussion on a delayed train, it appears LOTS of people either don't know about it, or don't bother. I see it as my moral duty to claim for anything over 31 minutes - after all, you wouldn't stand...

Looking at the attached, on several booking sites I've noticed random circles round some train times. I can't find any info on the sites as to what this means, and as I'd rather eat at Yates' rather than phone the unhelp line, I was just wondering if anyone knew what these circles mean? (See...

I registered to get the 10% discount for Crosscountry fares. I have only ever got one text spam on my phone in my life. One hour after registering, ticking the "receive updates by text" option, I received a spam ("bored housewife seeks gullible loner to receive texts at £1.50 each"). Was this...

Now, I'm more than happy to have a small ad, but I just got a MASSIVE popunder ad when visiting the National Rail website. I've ad-blocked it now, but popunders are SO 2006!

On every other site, if I check the price of a saver return from Reading to Worcester with a network card, it comes out as £23.75. On the NXEC site, excellent though it usually is, even though it definitely says you've added the railcard, it still shows £34. I've taken it right up to the booking...

If I let the booking system decide what's best for me from my journey from London to Wales, it gives me 20 mins to change at BHM, and wants £50. If I book the two parts separately and choose another train to BHM, it's £25.50. BUT - that allows a 6 minute change at BHM. Now, it was always...

Sorry if I missed a thread already - I did search, but am I the only one who thinks this is a bit nuts?

God knows how any non-regular traveller is supposed to know about the evening peak out of London (been there, done that, had the argument, got off as I think they knew I was genuine AND the train had arrived at Reading!). Anyway, now I know about it, because they kindly told me that it's...

I hear a lot of people are getting caught out by the "simpler" fare structure, and I also remember the pregnant woman fined for standing in first class as there was no-one else. Well.... My girlfriend used to travel by train a lot for business, often multi-point journeys, and she was...