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On Tuesday my Barclays debit card developed a fault. It wouldn't work either contactless or via chip and pin insert. Bizarrely it still works via contactless on tubes and buses. I have ordered a new card and uploaded the existing card to my phone so that I can still buy stuff when out and about...

Hi all I was on a single decker bus in west london this morning. The bus successfully managed to pick up passengers at the first 3 stops, however at the 4th stop, after the doors closed the bus refused to move. The driver restarted it twice but still no joy. I noticed that the hatch above...

I was in a pub in Ealing Broadway yesterday evening and people were talking about the woman who had been issued a £80 Fixed Penalty Notice for pouring her coffee down a drain. A fellow in the pub mentioned that he had recently got on a bus at Ealing Broadway to go and pick his son up from...

Hi all I currently have a zone 3-5 travelcard. Yesterday I had to travel to zone 2. Although I entered Ruislip Gardens station off peak (6.45 AM), my interchange (at White City/Wood Lane) was approx 07.10 AM. When I got to Hammersmith (H&C) I was charged £1.70 for the single zone...

Hi all. At 19.10 this evening I was on the eastbound central line platform at Notting hill station. The train on the platform was terminating at White city. As it pulled out of the station, I could see the next train, to North Acton, sitting in the tunnel, it only seemed to between 30 and 50...

Over the last few weeks, a private security firm working on behalf of Ealing Council have been handing out fixed penalty notices (supposedly) for littering. They spend a few hours a day milling around the entrance to Ealing Broadway station, doling out "fines" to travellers about to enter the...

I stumbled across this complaint, the response tickled me, so i thought that i would share it. Source: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/157037/response/391797/attach/3/FOI%200132%201314%20Kell.pdf

Hi all I recently travelled off peak from Ruislip Gardens (Zone 5) to North Sheen (Zone 3) (via Zone 2 and avoiding Zone 1). As an occasional/semi-regular user of the FGW Greenford branch I assumed that the last leg of my journey on SW Trains would be charged at the same rate as my tube...