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I recently travelled from Paddington to Worcester Foregate Street. My ticket was issued to a station group - i.e. Worcester Shrub Hill or Worcester Foregate Street. My train was 44 minutes late and terminated at Shrub Hill. The next train to Foregate Street arrived over an hour after the...

Recently whenever I've been on a service from Charing Cross to Lewisham, the train hasn't used Tanners Hill fly down but instead has switched to the Cannon Street lines and passed non-stop through New Cross and St John's. Does anybody know why?

What's happening with platform 1 at London Bridge, which has been roped off for months? Is it simply that a reduced timetable is still operating as a result of COVID-19 and one up platform and one down platform can accommodate the Cannon Street traffic? Or is something wrong with it?

Apologies if this has been asked elsewhere, but is there any news on the running of the South Eastern franchise when Southeastern's term ends on 31 March? If negotiations are ongoing, they're running quite close to the bone!

At London Bridge I bought a ticket for St Albans from the machine. It doesn't ask you about route: only for your destination and whether you would like a single or return. The machine issues a ticket from London Terminals to St Albans. This is not valid through the Thameslink core...

I have an Abbey Wood to London Terminals season ticket, which I understand is valid on Thameslink services as far as City Thameslink. Today I needed to travel to St Pancras so, being the honest sort, I asked at Abbey Wood for some sort of ticket that would cover me for the final two stations...

What do people think of the new TSR from 2022 in the South Eastern ITT? Speaking selfishly, I'm a bit peeved that the North Kent Line will lose its Charing Cross service. This is likely to cause large numbers of people to need to change at London Bridge or (heaven forbid) Lewisham. It also...

I've taken to using the DLR quite frequently. Two things have got me wondering: 1 - What decides whether the train is operated from the front or not? Is it simply a matter of the PSA's discretion, or are there times or circumstances when the PSA has to sit at the front or has to roam the...

I understand from the Great Western franchise agreement that the intended date for the additional train per hour on the North Downs Line between Gatwick and Reading was May 2017. Is this still the plan? Does it depend on the commissioning of the additional Redhill platform, and is this on...

I'm considering a move to Reigate (for the schools rather than the train service, I have to say). My usual commute would be to London Bridge or the Thameslink core, changing at Redhill / East Croydon. I have a few questions if you don't mind: Could I ask if a London - Dorking Any...

My season ticket is London Terminals to Maze Hill and is marked "also available at Blackheath". My usual journey is Cannon Street to Maze Hill. Am I right in thinking that this ticket would also be valid for: Charing Cross to Lewisham Victoria to Peckham Rye Blackfriars to Denmark...

On my trip into London Bridge today, looking out the window at Southeastern and Southern trains, I noticed that most trains with new(er) liveries only had the TOC's name on the first and last carriage. The intermediate carriages had the TOC's colour scheme but not its name. Is this a new rule?

I switched from Oyster to contactless for London travel recently. Just wondering, if a ticket inspection occurred on a National Rail service, how does the TOC validate contactless cards? It feels a bit odd having nothing with me but my bank card! I guess they just don't bother inspecting very...

Is any train at any time of the week scheduled to stop at platforms 1 / 2 at Purley? If not, are they ever used during disruption etc, or are they completely disused at the moment?

Hello I have the return portion of an Any Permitted Off-Peak Return from London Terminals to Bath Spa which I'll use on Sunday. On Sunday, after coming back from Bath, I need to go to Redhill. Rather than going via central London, I can save some time by changing at Reading onto a...

I'm travelling London - Brighton at the weekend. Ideally I'd travel down from London Bridge (FCC) and return to London Victoria (Southern). However, the Any Permitted tickets are far more expensive than the Super Off Peak Returns available if you're happy to restrict yourself to one TOC. Are...

While staring out of the window this afternoon on the southern part of the MML, one thing was bugging me. How come the contact cable in the OHLE (which I think is at 25kV) has big ceramic insulators when the autotransformer feeds (which I thought ran at 50kV) were apparently only centimetres...

With an FGW super off-peak return from London Terminals to Taunton, can I change at Reading on the return leg and travel to Waterloo rather than Paddington? I'm looking to break that leg of the journey at Wokingham for a few hours. Thanks!

I'm going to do one of the Time Out country walks soon. The walk is from Hever station to Leigh station. The book is usually quite helpful about ticketing. For this walk it says: "Take the train nearest to 10.20am from London Bridge Station to Hever. Journey time 41 minutes. On Sundays there...

Just a quick question... my fiancee and I are booked onto the 1807 off Marylebone this Friday on an advance ticket. Does anybody know how busy this train gets? With a train reservation but no a specific seat reservation, should I aim to get there early to get two seats together? Incidentally...