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On a route that I travel on quite a bit, on the South West Main Line, S-tickets do not appear to be available for season tickets. This is frustrating. I know people don't like them, but I would love to travel just with my phone and no wallet. Is there any reason why South Western Railway don't...

Bit of an interesting one whilst trying to claim Delay Repay. On Saturday 25th October, I wanted to catch the 0715 Southampton Central to Birmingham New Street. I'd checked the departure on my phone at about 6am, and it was showing as running. However, when I got to the station at about 7am, it...

I'm currently in an email thread with Southern railway about ticket validity between Southampton and London via Brighton. I can get journey planners to show the Any Permitted route fare whilst adding a via-point of Brighton, and if I'm reading this website correctly, this indicates that it's...

Hi, I experienced something that felt a little unusual the other day, and wondered if it was typical or not. I was on a walk in the Liss area, and came to the smaller level crossing near the south part of Liss, by the A3 junction. Here's a street view link to the crossing in question...

Hello, I had this experience on Thursday evening, and I’m wondering what opinions people have. I had an itinerary from Southampton Central to Hartford. Generated by the retailer, observing the minimum connection times (just!) 1/8. Departing Southampton Central at 17:30, arriving London...

I’m currently sat at Basingstoke, feeling sorry for myself because my intended train (1817, 1W35 to Weymouth) has failed to stop. Sped right through. Most people taking it in good spirits though, especially the guard who was meant to be on it. That got me thinking, do signals take a train’s...

First class really needs permanently declassifying, until capacity is properly sorted. Also, there’s posters at Southampton Central this morning saying there’ll be disruption today because of a lack of drivers. If you don’t have enough drivers, then you’ve ultimately failed as a train...

So I’ve started using Apple Pay express transit mode on the tube. No matter what I try, I can’t get my Apple Pay card to appear on the TfL website to view my journey history. I’ve been using it a few weeks, have tried removing and re-adding my physical card to the portal, but my Apple Pay card...

Hi all, trying to figure out something that has me confused, and would like to figure out what's happened! Yesterday I bought an e-ticket return from LNER. It was for travel on SWR into London, but I like getting the cashback from LNER. I only scanned the ticket at the barriers at the beginning...

Hi, I’m noticing that the current time displayed on some London Underground boards appears to be wrong: -Ealing Broadway Central line: the two platform boards next to each other both show different times, and are both wrong. -Paddington Hammersmith/Circle line: the display near the barriers is...

Just filled out a survey from WMR that basically amounted to one question- do you prefer traditional cardboard ticket or paper roll when purchasing/collecting at a station? Apparently the survey is vital to future planning, but I thought it was decided cardboard tickets are on the way out?

So West Midlands Trains have already announced a service gap this evening of over 5 hours between Birmingham and Liverpool. Utterly predictable, it’s a shame you can’t bet on service cancellations! However, despite the causes of failing to run trains (discussed elsewhere I’m sure), what can be...

So West Midlands Trains have already announced a service gap this evening of over 5 hours between Birmingham and Liverpool. What can be done to mitigate this on the day? This is a recurring issue with said operator (has been since the Central Trains days), and it’s obviously unable to fix the...

Not a great look I fear! A bit of a kick in the teeth to staff and passengers trying to be careful. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55717243

Currently sitting on a train to Weymouth that’s been stopped near Surbiton for almost 90 minutes. Apparently there’s been a complete loss of signalling. I’m not from round these parts, is it a regular occurrence? We’ve been told for the past hour that the signals are trying to be reset but no...

I noticed today that the trainline app is offering me split tickets. Is this a new thing? I haven’t seen it before!

Couldn’t see this posted, quite skilful driving! https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/train-driver-freewheels-broken-down-train-13-miles-to-london-euston-after-a-power-cut-a3748781.html Is this quite a common driving technique?

Hi, will appreciate your advice on this. My girlfriend bought a return ticket using the GWR app for Winchester to Oxford. She had a 16-25 railcard applied to the ticket. However, upon arriving at the station she realised she had forgotten her railcard, so she bought a replacement return ticket...

Hi all, I've been using London Midland services for years between Birmingham and Liverpool, and when travelling on their weekday services I don't have any kind of problem (and certainly appreciate the very cheap advance fares :)). However it seems that on Friday evenings and Saturdays it...