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I was caught up in yesterday's disruption in Manchester. My planned journey home was Manchester Oxford Road d 1811 Liverpool South Parkway a 1849 I would have been using the return portion of an off-peak return, cost £13.65 after applying a senior railcard My actual journey was something like...

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jan/21/blind-man-who-fell-on-to-the-tracks-at-manchester-piccadilly-wins-payout Does this go some way to explaining the recent enthusiasm at Piccadilly for keeping passengers back from the platform edge? (As always, if there's a relevant thread I have...

Split from: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/notice-of-intention-to-prosecute-gtr.296021/#post-7632518 As I said in post 20 What this forum is for, and what contributors should offer in it, is an important matter - but not directly relevant to the OP here. So I think it would help...

I've split this off from the original thread as this might not help the OP there very much - but might be of value for us when we try to help posters. One of the strengths of this board is that we give advice from a variety of perspectives - and for the avoidance of doubt I don't think there's...

I don't think there's a specific thread for this - if so then mods please lock/merge/delete as appropriate https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/dec/24/train-firms-warned-over-best-price-claims-after-watchdog-bans-ads#img-1

Historically, there have been some very good value first class fares priced by TfW. Looking at one of these and trying to understand the restrictions which are now in place, I see that restriction 8A applies. BR Fares.com gives this as While the National Rail site says much the same, only...

From another thread (which is still live and I don't want to derail - hence this new thread): We seem to be interpreting this as meaning that (a) only applies when the passenger says 'I want a penalty fare to X': otherwise (b) applies and the penalty fare is to the next scheduled call. But are...

I haven't spotted a thread for this yet - mods please close/merge/relocate as appropriate if I have missed something. https://www.railwaypro.com/wp/northern-expands-ticket-sharing-deal-with-emr-and-tpe/

An esteemed moderator (@Cowley ) wrote So here goes... It'll take a moment or two as I am on my phone so copying and pasting isn't too easy - please hold on. 1750438847 @REO Nate wrote Many of us here try to give our best advice, but we're outsiders, so an inside voice is helpful. So on that...

(I'm as certain as I can be that this is in the wrong place but cannot for the life of me work out where the right place is. Mods - please relocate as appropriate) Merseyrail are looking for volunteers to try out their 'Tap & Go' system. Per...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/07/fact-track-justice-system-flawed-investigation/ ‘I was charged for fare dodging when I was 7,000 miles away. Britain’s fast-track justice is flawed’ Apologies, but I can't instantly spot the ideal thread to add this to. And further apologies as the...

I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this, but just for reassurance/correction if I've got the wrong end of the stick: 18/11/24: I was looking to travel on the 1811 TPE service from Manchester Oxford Road to Liverpool South Parkway The train arrived very fully loaded and I was unable to get...

The above has come up on another thread. Do we have any evidence for the above 'not taking the matter seriously' view? Have we seen a disproportionate number of AI generated responses being knocked back compared to handwritten ones? For what it's worth, my personal choice would be that people...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/scarborough-to-beaconsfield-super-off-peak-ticket.268553 As the original ticket was valid on any train from Marylebone, this thread has been split from the original, to handle a hypothetical situation, regarding a ticket that is...

I've started a new thread as we've seen two or three of these today. It seems notable to me that there's no reference to WMT having checked the passenger's past tickets with Trainline etc. And all the original reports are out of time for summary prosecution. I know I apply a rather different...

I'm shortly going to be going into the office three days a week, so a flexi season ticket seems to be the cheapest way to pay for my travel. Are there any ways of getting cashback/nectar points/whatever on the purchase price? I'm taking using a cashback credit card to buy it with as read.

On another thread... And someone (@Hadders?) very sensibly suggested taking it away from the original thread. So here goes... My take is that the railways want to be reassured that the passenger will not fare dodge again. So it's in the passenger's interest to try and offer that reassurance to...

I don't think that this has been posted: if it has then (1) apologies and (2) please lock/merge/delete as appropriate: From https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/tfl-ai-fare-dodgers-london-underground-artificial-intelligence-b1124563.html#:~:text=Artificial intelligence is to be,station, on...

In the last few days we've had a couple of threads about different railway companies where - passenger has been caught fare dodging but has settled the incident (off the top of my head I am not sure if this is only by out of court settlement or whether penalty fares have also applied) - railway...

Famously, Temple Meads station is not particularly central to Bristol. Given that the station was built for the GWR, and the GWR was an initiative by Bristol people, why is this? Surely a Bristol railway would have wanted the station as near to the then commercial centre of Bristol as possible?