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I travelled WBY to KNG via WIM using TAP2GO with a SNR loaded. SWR charged me a travel card cost of £19.30, I think it should be £10.90 or even £7.65 I touched in at WBY and out at KNG and again touched in at KNG and out at WBY. The gateline at KNG opened for exit and re-entry An off peak...

For those of us that don't live and breathe Pandrol clips Can someone explain the systems of protection where and when they are used from detonators, Short circuit bar, 15/200/20 advice, DRA ,AWS, TPWS, TPWS+ and any others These terms confuse me . Why isn't there just one system in use on all...

Platform One, they came up error. Other readers worked fine I couldn't find any sort of ID number to tell anyone.

Imagine I’ve travelled from Woking to Clapham junction using a TAP2GO card. Can I exit SWR on the pink reader, enter on a contactless take an overground, return touch out on the pink reader and touch back in using the TAP2GO and go back to say platform 9 and back to Woking? What I've been...

Two cab videos appeared on YT recently Bank to Waterloo and Waterloo to Bank Are these officially sanctioned? Do drain drivers, drive other lines? 2026-03-06 The author might be on this forum and has marked them private or someone at TFL.

I have a digital railcard on my phone with photo, text and a barcode that revenue protection have scanned and said that's OK. I also have a GBR smartcard where I touch in at a station and out somewhere else and after several journeys in a day/week/month it calculates a discount and deducts my...

Recently I noticed very old wooden sleepers being replaced with new wooden sleepers and wondered why they weren't using concrete or something else. I asked the project manager and his unhelpful and suspicious answer was "It was requested by engineering, if you have any concerns ......." I...

On a another forum it has been suggested that for tunnelling the loading gauge width had to be less than the average width of a mule's rear-end and this is how the gauges were originally derived. This seems apocryphal. Is there a reference to where this was designed and changed over time. I...

The large international company I worked for as an employee before I became independent had reward schemes e.g. Big thank you £50 or £100, then £200, Line manager discretion £500, £1000 above Director, above that the board etc. I could give anyone a £100 reward just with a mouse click. Does...

Is there an electrician here who knows Sometimes they have a sign saying laptop and phone chargers only. I have tried 1000/2000W heat-shrink gun without problem I've yet to try a 3000W kettle, 2400W hair dryer / straighteners Are they on a single shared 13A ring circuit per carriage on a...

I need to travel to Cambridge a few times a month. ideally with as few changes as possible. Are my only options from Kings Cross or a train like the Thames link via East Croydon. Is there a route I've missed.

Notes - I have certain box privileges and also get nearly all my travel refunded by a railway related company. For this example I was travelling as a normal member of the public without any privileges. I was testing Tap2go for a client as a solution for their non priv staff travel. A return...

Imagine hypothetically someone had a pensioner privilege pass from say Zone4 to London off peak Is this a taxable benefit e.g. does it have to be declared for tax? Imagine the operator offered this person a one time only cash sum for this pass and they took this money, would that be taxable?

Consider a journey from Woking, Surrey to London Waterloo, offpeak on a weekday assuming no railcards in force. Which of these would be cheaper? A paper ticket purchased from a SWR office or ticket machine An e-ticket from a provider like Trainline Two single Tap2Go journeys using an SWR...

I've tried to get an answer to this question by asking National Rail Enquiries, TFL and people who regularly pass through Clapham Junction Railway Station but no-one seems to have a definitive answer. My question is basically. Can I arrive at Clapham Junction using a paper railway ticket from...

I don't travel much on the DLR anymore, about twice a month off peak. I usually try and sit at the front. Almost Every time in the last 6 months I have been asked to move by the PSA so he can control the train. Are there any publicly available stats about how often PSA take control per day /...