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A colleague of mine has a single from London Underground Zones 1-2 to Didcot Parkway for travel tomorrow. He also holds a season ticket between East Grinstead and London Terminals. Ideally, he would travel from East Grinstead to Farringdon on Thameslink, and thence to Paddington by H&C/Circle...

Recently, the following poster has appeared at Cannon Street Underground station: I was not aware there was any such validity — there is nothing listed in the list of inter-available routes (e.g. Stratford-Liverpool St NR tickets are valid on the Central Line), and I thought (perhaps...

A friend of mine plans to travel from Oxford to Twickenham on Thursday (today), catching the 18:31 to Reading, and thence the 19:12 to Twickenham, arriving 20:10, and then returning on Saturday. With a Network Railcard, the obvious fare is the £23.05 Off-Peak Return route Reading not London...

As I understand it, it is theoretically possible to buy through Rail & Sail tickets from (in my case) Brighton to Belfast, routed via Holyhead and Dublin. Try as I might, however, I cannot get any booking engines to give me such a route: neither TrainLine or RailEasy will give routes via...

I've just bought a pair of Stena Line Rail & Sail tickets online, out from Edinburgh to Belfast, and back from Belfast to Brighton. Both have been printed as "ANYTIME DAY S[ingle]", route "CAIRNRYAN STENA", validity "ON DATE SHOWN". But to the top-right of the validity on the Belfast-Brighton...

I'm planning a day trip to the Isle of Wight at some point. Does a ticket from, say, Brighton to Shanklin include travel on a ferry crossing? If so, which ferry? I've noticed that tickets from some SWT stations (e.g. Havant, Waterloo) to Shanklin have separately-priced tickets for Wightlink...

I'm looking to sample FGW's diversions this Easter during the Reading blockade. To that end, I'd like to do a day trip, probably on Saturday (but certainly one of Saturday, Sunday or Easter Monday), on an itinerary looking something like this: 10:25 Coventry-Oxford, a11:14 11:42...

The Routeing Guide currently contains the following easement: Unfortunately this does not seem to apply more generally to journeys between Havant/Bedhampton and Cosham. Does anyone know if there was such an easement in the past? If so, when and why was it removed? Both Cosham and Fratton...

A friend of mine travelled yesterday from Coventry to Cosham, on a First Class Advance routed VWC&Connections. The itinerary was 1151 Coventry-Watford Jn 1251 Watford Jn-Clapham Jn 1338 Clapham Jn-Cosham (operated by Southern, via Horsham) In the event the 1338 was cancelled, and after...

I'm travelling from Coventry to Bridgend and back tomorrow; I want to go out via Birmingham and come back via Reading, for which two different ticket flows exist, the via Reading fares being more expensive. I planned to buy a via Birmingham return and excess the return portion. I just went to...

Long story short: I paid 80p for an excess on Sunday, and I know not why - I believe it should have been free; I would appreciate any and all advice! On Sunday evening, holding the return portion of a Leamington Spa-London Terminals Off Peak Return route Via Banbury, I went to the ticket...

Is there some advice somewhere in the routeing guide, or somewhere else that I might have missed, as to what to do when there are *no* appropriate routeing points for a journey? Scenario: I am attempting to determine the permitted routes between Cheltenham Spa (CNM) and Ebbw Vale Parkway...

I'm planning to do a Freedom of Devon and Cornwall 8 in 15 Day Rover in June, combined with a Coventry-Tiverton Parkway return (specifically, a Super Off-Peak Return route Reading Not London). If I wanted to upgrade to First Class between Reading and Bodmin Parkway on a Saturday, is a Weekend...

(Declaration: I have a 16-25 railcard.) I want to go from Guildford (GLD) to Staines (SNS) and back again on Sunday (i.e. a day return), going out via Woking using the direct Sunday service (1Sxx) between Woking and Staines, and coming back via Ascot using an Ascot-Guildford via Aldershot...

A friend and I are spending this Jubilee weekend touring round the north of England on a North Country 4-in-8 Rover, and I'm blogging about each day on my blog at http://railwaydave.blogspot.co.uk - please check it out and stay tuned for updates, day 1 (Thursday) is already up. :-)

As I understand it (e.g. from OpenTrainTimes) the Virgin blockade busters on Sunday are running via High Wycombe. Does this mean that a Route "Via High Wycombe" super off-peak return from Coventry to London Terminals will be valid on such trains? There's no silly rule saying the train has to...

The only routes in the fares manual for tickets from Rugby to Taunton are "Via Gloucester", and "XC & Connections", covering non-advance and advance tickets respectively. Why on earth would anyone force people into going via Gloucester on that route? A "via Cheltenham Spa" would make sense, but...

I have a theoretical question (in that I'm not imminently intending on using this for actually travelling, but might do so in the future) about change-of-route excesses. First of all, am I right in saying that if you have a ticket from A to B route via X, and you want to excess it to route via...