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I recently made a journey which involved a change of trains at Clapham Junction. The first leg started within the TFL area so I used my 60+ Oyster. The second ended outside the TFL area so I used a ticket. As I forgot to tap out at Clapham Junction there was an incomplete journey on my record...

GWR are very nonchalant about Xmas planned engineering work this year. https://www.gwr.com/travel-information/travel-updates/planned-engineering/christmas

Located in Edogawa, 1 minute walk from Kasai Station on the Tokyo Metro Tozai Line. https://www.chikahaku.jp/ Adult tickets 220 yen (about £1), child tickets 100 yen. There's enough here for an hour, or 90 minutes if you take it slowly. There are plenty of English captions and a couple of...

Having used this line for many years, my impression - backed up by no data - is that the destinations displayed on the trains are often wrong. By which I mean that it'll say London Waterloo when it's actually going the opposite direction. As it's a loop of course that's where it'll end up, but...

Two of us are are making a return trip from Paddington to Bath Spa tomorrow. i've just bought paper off-peak day returns spltting at Didcot for £88.60 including our railcard discount. When the tickets are checked, is it best to present only the tickets for the appropriate portion of the journey...

Apparently there is no memorial to the estimated 228,000 victims of Spanish Influenza in the UK. Across the world a handful of memorials and plaques exist, very few of them contemporaneous. It seems societies just wanted to put the ghastliness behind them, or focussed on remembering the victims...

Written in the midst of the 1918/19 Spanish Flu pandemic, eerily resonant today so I thought I'd share it. If this is the wrong forum, or otherwise inappropriate, please delete :-) It's out of copyright. Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things...

I've had conflicting information about engineering works between Edinburgh and Glasgow on Sunday 3rd June. A booking clerk at Waterloo told me there was a bus replacement service which would take 3 hours, but Scotrail and CrossCountry websites show normal services on that day National Rail...

Hi, Landing at Gatwick with Mrs. Farang after a holiday I realised I didn't have our 2Together railcard so had to buy full price tickets home from the ticket machine. What are the chances of a refund of the extra cost? Most of the journey home was on Southern, with a short stretch on SWR.