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https://www.private-eye.co.uk/podcast Something that I think might be of interest to people here. On the latest episode of Page 94 - the Private Eye podcast (check your favourite podcast client or music app) there is discussion with a journalist, Tristan Kirk of The Evening Standard, who is...

An open question, really. Those that provide advice on this forum will often say: "You'll need to write to TOC W a few times to get them to settle" "TOC X is generally quite pragmatic if you engage with them" "TOC Y generally prefer out of court settlements" "TOC Z will generally prosecute...

There seems to be a lot of disruption on the Snow Hill lines this morning, WMR using the "Operational incident" reason - some kind of problem at Tyseley depot? Anyone know what went wrong?

West Midlands Railway are reporting disruption due to an earlier fire on a train in Wolverhampton: Anyone know any more about this? Which service was involved / what type of unit? Obviously, there's a lot of new traction going through Wolves at the moment both on the Shrewsbury service and...

Or rather, should it... Here's the scenario: My partner and I hold a Two Together Railcard and frequently travel from Wolverhampton to Birmingham. It's usually at the weekend so we buy Off Peak return tickets with our Railcard discount applied. If we buy these on the WMR app and have them...

Mod Note: Post #1 originally in this thread. I can't believe companies are still getting away with using 0870 numbers for stuff like this...

Sitting on a WMR train this evening an automated announcement (of which I only heard part) spoke of a "Code of Conduct" which "asks passengers to ensure" that they have a valid ticket, as well as keeping feet off seats and putting rubbish in bins... First time I've heard this, and all very well...

Hi all, Looking at strike days on journey planners, some services are showing as "This train is sold out". Anecdotally, someone asked about this at a ticket office and was told that those trains wouldn't be running and were in fact cancelled. This seems unlikely? Why would they be showing on...

Hi all, So I'm seeing occasional posts here which refer to a failure to touch in/out on barriers, generally in London using either Oyster or an ITSO card like "The Key". I gather the problem here is that this means the journey can't be registered properly. Since returning to the office I've...

On Saturday I was on a train from Birmingham New Street to Lichfield City which stopped for an extended period at Shenstone. As time went on there were increasing grumbles in the carriage as people tried to work out what was going on - had something gone wrong? When would we be moving? Silence...

TFWM say: Birmingham New Street: West Midlands Railway: Doesn't sound good! Anyone know what's happened?

I'm attending a (very) big gig there in the summer, and had fully expected not to be able to use this (remembering at the time all the stories about them having to close it on match days...) - is that all over, then? Would we expect it to be open before/after a gig at the Ricoh?

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/schoolboys-left-injured-after-playing-14950055 Extraordinary.

Apologies if there's alread a thread for this, I did look, but was unable to find one. So, Midland Metro has become West Midlands Metro, the reins having been handed over from National Express to Midland Metro Ltd. (part of the West Midlands Combined Alliance blah blah blah...) It seems the...

Having watched a program about the APT recently, I've been trying to work something out that's been bugging me. It's clear the APT made people nauseous (actually physically sick?) and the Pendo doesn't generally have this effect. What's the key difference between the mechanisms that means that...

I've just started to use buses a lot more as, as the result of recent illness, I'm not able to walk as far as I once could. I was just wondering if there was any industry standard method of compensating passengers for severe delay / cancellation? One day a couple of weeks ago I was forced to...

From this week's Popbitch newsletter: Lucky not to get charged for an upgrade, I'd say! One rule for lanky 90s popstars... etc. ;)

I thought this may be of interest: Advance warning: Source is my local Express & Star, and is therefore utter nonsense in places. Source: https://www.expressandstar.com/news/crime/2017/09/13/runaway-wolverhampton-university-student-in-600k-rail-ticket-racket-get-4-years/#BgV3fO6FAeM60lBD.99

Have just seen this on the BTP twitter: https://twitter.com/BTP/status/897098169200279554

Afternoon! I've recently claimed Delay Repay compensation from London Midland (LM) for a journey between Birmingham New Street (BHM) and Lichfield Trent Valley (LTV), delayed by 30 minutes because they cancelled the service at BHM (that I was actually sitting on...), turfed everyone off, and we...