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Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/gwr-fare-increases.287542/page-3#post-7460501 Not GWR, but I don't see this mentioned elsewhere - Great Northern have raised the price of their weekend Super Off Peak tickets, including travelcards, by about 4% from yesterday. For Ely, that's an...

Looking at getting a BZ6 to Southend return on Saturday, and it appears all tickets to Southend Central OR Victoria have been removed - you have to pick one or the other. (BRFares shows these still being available last summer but not now). Is this a result of the c2c fares 'simplification'...

For the last few weeks, the terminating GA trains on platform 3 at Cambridge North have been stopping at the far (north) end of the station, rather than near the bridge as before. Obviously this isn't a difference for 10-car trains, but for 5-cars, it is quite an additional hike - and not...

I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere yet, and I was planning to travel on LNER on the 20th between Newcastle and Peterborough (though I haven't reserved anything specific) - is anything likely to be running? Should I be making alternative plans? The journey isn't time-critical but I don't...

Scotrail's website (at https://www.scotrail.co.uk/tickets/combined-tickets-travel-passes/spirit-of-scotland) says that the Spirit of Scotland rover can be used on the Glasgow Subway and Edinburgh Trams. On railrover.org it says for the Central Scotland rover: Is that the case for the Spirit...

Does anyone know what the current evening restrictions on a Thames Rover are from Paddington and/or Reading? This was touched on in this thread : https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/thames-rover-3-day.242571/ earlier this year, but there didn't seem to be an answer. GWR's website says one...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/ely-north-junction-upgrade-proposals.68376/ Which indeed it does, and as such the chances of it ever getting the go-ahead seems ever slimmer as the cost gets ever higher as more and more gets lumped into the project...

I received a mail from Virgin Media today (from whom I get TV, Broadband and landline (though in the latter case, presumably for not much longer)). It says: Sounds good, methinks, as I'm already paying too much and have been putting off the usual game of chicken about cancelling unless I get...

Buried below other news today is the announcement that the Labour Party are going to push for the measures to require internet sites to remove 'legal but harmful' speech to be put back into the Online 'Safety' Bill, and if it is passed without them, that they are going to make it a priority to...

There's an amber warning for (more!) hot weather for much of England from Thursday through to Sunday. BBC Weather has mid-30s each day; this is for London: and there are various 36s dotted around across central/southern England. Seems likely this is going to cause various travel disruption...

As detailed in this thread https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/ely-upgrade-under-threat.233815/ it seems the long-awaited Ely North upgrade, and related capacity work, is in doubt because the price is too high. What alternatives could there be to deliver the upgrade with a smaller price...

This is a situation I've been in a number of times, fortunately it hasn't gone wrong yet, but wondering what would (and what should) happen if it did. Say there is a regular service A-B-C, station B has a minimum connection time of say 5 minutes, and I have an open ticket from A to B and an...

A new poster at Ely this evening notifies passengers of work to begin 'soon' that involves a larger waiting room (good, much needed), some changes to the booking hall (can't remember exactly what it said about that) and ticket gates being installed (oh dear :-( Does anyone know any more...

The last couple of weeks, every time I've seen the 0845 and/or 0947 Ely -> Kings Cross it has been a 700. I thought that in 'normal' times everything north of Cambridge was 387s. Are these booked to be 700s now? If so, ugh - the 0947 is my regular commuting train, and I'm starting to head...

Despite really not wanting to do it - honest - the Government has published more details of how it would implement a 'vaccine passport' scheme under 'Plan B' this autumn/winter. Quite a lot of detail here for something they really don't intend to do...

I thought it might be interesting to see what people think is going to happen next, and collect those opinions in one place. We're now heading into autumn - and then winter - again. Compared with last year, we've had the near-completion of the vaccination program - all adults who wanted the...

Today I wanted to do some stuff in London, and also visit Uckfield. So I purchased a Travelcard and a Boundary Zone 6 - Uckfield from Ely and set off. However, the train I intended to catch from East Croydon to Oxted to pick up the Uckfield service never got out of the platform at East Croydon...

moderator note: posts #1- #6 originally in this thread And yet, for some reason I still don't really understand, the vast majority of the supposed 'left' support all of this, and indeed call for it to go further! Baffling.

It seems there are three tools you can use when faced with an epidemic. 1. Stopping people catching the disease and passing it on to others. 2. Stopping people who have caught the disease from becoming seriously ill. 3. Stopping people who have caught the disease and have become seriously...

This seems very important. Our current strategy of widespread testing appears to be ignoring the fact that the PCR test has a non-zero false positive rate, which has major implications. In particular, at the moment it appears that *even with a positive test* it is more likely than not that you...