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In light of the Birmingham PlusBus recent 75% price hike, I was wondering if of the railcard I have or might get next would qualify for the discount. The Birmingham PlusBus page - https://www.plusbus.info/birmingham - lists the normal (£9.00) and railcard discounted (£5.95) prices but not the...

Last week, I added a Birmingham PlusBus to my journey for £5.20. As of today, it seems to have jumped a whopping 75% to £9! https://www.plusbus.info/birmingham Looking back at some older tickets, this time last year was £4.80, in July 2024 it was £4.00, and the same for 2023. Those all feel...

It appears that tickets from Oxford to Birmingham are not valid via Stratford-upon-Avon, and nor are ones from the normal Oxford-Birmingham split points like Banbury or Leamington Spa I could buy and Oxford to Stratford-upon-Avon return (don't appear to be any splits possible there), and a...

I've got a Euro High Saver Return (CIV) from Oxford to London International (CIV), then taking (hopefully...) the Eurostar on. GWR cancelled the first train of the morning (05:20) just before it was due to leave. Next train gets into London nearly an hour later. I'll miss my Eurostar, though...

Yesterday evening I was travelling from London Paddington back to Oxford. Took the 23:32, intending to change at Didcot. Train was crush loaded and late, so missed the connection. At Didcot, the staff said they'd been denied permission to arrange taxis, and we had to wait for the rail...

Looking up tickets between Oxford and Kings Sutton, I noticed a very odd thing Off Peak Day Single - Route Any Permitted - £8.20 https://www.brfares.com/!faredetail?orig=KGS&dest=OXF&tkt=CDS Off Peak Day Single - Route . - £7.30...

I'm trying to figure out what ticket or tickets I'd need to buy to be able to do: Day 1, weekday afternoon - Oxford to Gillingam (Dorset) Day 2, weekend afternoon - Gillingam (Dorset) to Weybridge Day 2, weekend evening - Weybridge to Oxford I can't seem to get an journey planners to give me a...

I'm looking to travel from Moreton-in-Marsh to Birmingham (New Street or Moor Street). For an off-peak day trip, based on https://www.brfares.com/!fares?orig=MIM&dest=0418 it looks like there's a crazy-expensive "via Oxford" ticket, or a much more reasonable "via Worcester" option Checking...

Is there a trick for getting the LNER website to offer PlusBus on the return day of a multi-day ticket? Normally I use GWR who will happily (once you tell them what day you want to come back on) offer you PlusBus for both the outward and return days. However, I've got a good offer for booking...

Tomorrow I need to travel from near the St Pauls tram stop / northly entrance to Snow Hill station to Birmingham International. Normally I'd hop on the tram round to New Street, and then train from there. However, with the trams infrequent and only running to Bull Street, I was thinking it might...

I'm currently on the 15:14 Cross Country service 1O20 from Birmingham International heading south. As seems to be normal for when I'm taking one of these, it's running late, as the Northampton train before it was very late. The train before is the 1W90, 1453 Birmingham New Street - Northampton...

This weekend, we want to head from Oxford into London on day 1, spend two days taking a bunch of different tubes / buses / trains, then train back to Oxford late on day 2. However, I'm struggling to figure out the best way to get the tickets for that.... Two of us travelling together, covered...

According to NRE, the Oxford Evening Out rover ticket can be bought online - "This ticket can either be bought on the day or in advance from a station ticket office, online, by telephone" Does anyone know of any websites that actually let you do so? I can't seem to get the GWR site to show it...

Other than just buying a 7 day season ticket, are there any tricks to bring down the cost of travelling from Tisbury to London, on day returns at peak times? (eg to arrive in London for 9ish, heading back 5ish) An Anytime Day return is currently £104.30, whilst a 7 day season to London...

Looking for Banbury to Birmingham International on Monday morning, I'm seeing any Anytime Single for £16.80. However, for some trains, I'm also seeing an Advanced Single for £20.00. Not for 1st class, that's standard class too! I'm a bit at a loss as to why CrossCountry think it's sensible to...

This inspired by the GWR December 2019 timetable and fare restrictions thread Fairly often, I need to travel from Oxford to near London Liverpool Street, coming back in the evening peak period. Often I'll leave late enough to get a cheaper off-peak ticket. When I do, that tends to involve an...

It's been a while since I had a Cotswolds railcard, as my Network Goldcard works for the same route, but the other half has hit a problem today with hers... Based on past use, the the National Rail enquiries website description, it's valid for The Cotswold Line Railcard gives the holder a 34%...

Right now, I'd say I'm taking Thameslink / Great Northern about twice a week. As would come as no surprise to anyone here, I suffer some sort of delay of cancellation about 3 in every 4 journeys.... As such, I'm filling in a lot of delay repay claims. After a period where they were pretty good...

On Sunday, getting from Oxford to Cardiff seems to need either 3 hours 45 to 4 hours via Reading, or about 3.5 hours plus several changes plus a rail replacement bus via Didcot and Bristol. On the other hand, heading out of Oxford on the north Cotswolds line and a single change at Hereford seems...

For those who don't know, the GWR delay compensation scheme is a bit of a mess - it still appears to largely be 3 entirely separate ones depending on who used to run the service before it became FGW / GWR. They've also gone a bit quiet on the move to simple Delay Repay, but that's a different...