Search results

The Northlink ferries from Scrabster to Stromness on Orkney have been missing from the rail timetable data since some time between January and March this year - Scrabster showing no departures: https://www.brtimes.com/!board?stn=SCB I haven't been able to find any discussion of it - does anyone...

I came across this TPE train with an extremely unusual join/divide pattern, because it was triggering a 12-year old bug in the BR Times source code. In fact there is only a single train in the current timetable that shows joins in two different places. It runs on Fridays only: The 21:00 from...

There was a reasonably good article about rail fares in the Financial Times a couple of weeks ago. The main thrust was about the massive drop in season ticket sales since the pandemic, with quite a lot of data (from ORR and BR Fares, with credit) and charts showing how seasons are not the best...

Link here if you can read German: https://www.hessenschau.de/wirtschaft/oberlandesgericht-stoppt-suchfunktion-in-bahn-app-v3,olg-db-suchfunktion-100.html The gist of it is that a private train operator complained to the regional court in Frankfurt-am-Main about the fact that the journey...

Maybe this is not new, but I just noticed in restriction code 3V (used for quite a few LNER Off-Peak Return fares, and I presume maintained by LNER): This restriction regarding long-haul journeys and on beginning your journey at such a time that the timetable does not facilitate completion...

This feels like it should be a common question but I did a forum search and can't find anything definitive. On Thursday evening (during the strike) I need to get from London City Airport to Paddington. Looking at a map it seems like going via Woolwich (and doubling back in the same direction)...

Sorry if I've missed it, but I think it would be really useful especially for people like me who are now only occasional visitors to the UK, to have a thread with a chronological list of upcoming strikes with details of which unions and/or TOCs affected?

Has anyone heard of the Single National Fares Plan or know what it is? I have just heard of it today, having noticed this job ad on the GB Railways website: https://jobs.gbrtt.co.uk/single-national-fares-plan-delivery-lead-124355.htm The job ad in the link is advertising for someone who will...

For a season ticket changeover calculation, what price is used for the price of the ticket being changed to; is it the price of the ticket as it would have been on the day the original ticket was sold, or the price of the ticket as it would have been on the first day of validity ? It strikes...

I saw the attached photo on LinkedIn - a new card-only machine for Transpennine Express. Looks like it might have a journey planner interface? Seems to be some more info here: https://www.evoke-creative.com/new-self-service-kiosk-for-the-gatwick-rail-station/ Has anybody tried it and have any...

Does anyone know if fares are actually going to change on the 2nd January as usual and if so, when the new fares should be put on sale? Traditionally it was 4 weeks in advance (so 5th December) but more recently RDG have usually announced a specific date fairly early in November. But I'm...

This web page appears to suggest that the LNER website and app will automatically offer split ticketing options on their services: My reading of the above is that the split ticketing price should show up automatically when you search for an LNER journey on the LNER website or app. Has anybody...

There is an article in The Times today stating that the Williams Review has been delayed due to concerns over financial implications of fares reform. I can't see the full article because of the paywall, but it starts as follows: I have to say, this doesn't seem very surprising at all and was...

I'm surprised nobody else has pointed this out; maybe I've missed it. But since at least yesterday evening the routeing guide is unavailable. For quite a few years now there has been no paper version; only the website http://data.atoc.org/routeing-guide which is showing following error: It...

Most journeys that can be made on Oyster also have fares showing in the National Rail fares database using special ticket types PAP and POP. E.g. for Waterloo to Ewell West, on the relevant BR Fares page http://www.brfares.com/#!fares?orig=WAT&dest=EWW they are shown as follows: But I was...

I notice on the latest London Rail and Tube Services Map http://content.tfl.gov.uk/london-rail-and-tube-services-map.pdf it says in the small print at the bottom Lancaster Gate Station closed until August 2017. Previously, and still in other places, e.g. here...

I've just received the following e-mail from TfL, encouraging me to use Contactless instead of Oyster for my journeys in London. It strongly implies that I will be charged the same price as with Oyster. But it's not true, as I have a railcard discount (Annual Gold Card, actually), added to my...

Is anybody able to tell me how a weekend 1st upgrade is issued on VTEC, i.e. what does the ticket look like, what is printed on it? If I look at fares from say York to Darlington there is a TPE weekend first at £6 (ticket type WET) and CrossCountry weekend first at £5 (ticket type XCU) but...

I've created a new website www.ltfares.com, to try and make the process of looking up Oyster/Contactless single fares a bit smoother and quicker than it currently is. It uses the public TfL API and the information contained on it is much the same as the TfL single fare finder or MikeWh's...

Has anybody else seen this little booklet? It seems to have been only recently published (mentions December 2015 on the back page). I came across a copy in Reading station today and am quite impressed with it. It includes a good clear description of what break of journey means and when it is...