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I'd like to ask the experts for their thoughts on the following scenario. 1. I have a ticket which is valid for unlimited breaks of journey on the day of validity. 2. There is engineering work on part of the route I would normally use, but there are some direct trains on a diversion route (thus...

When trying to get from Brighton to London on Saturday evening, I found 3 out of 4 pending London services were cancelled. (Actually, I think 2 were shown as not running when I first got to the station, but then another one switched to cancelled.) One of the signs said something about...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/levenmouth-rail-link-to-reopen-project-updates.188068/page-19#post-6792568 So does that mean the end of regular services round the top of the loop? Surely it would have been better to run the services from the western side of...

Can someone confirm that a cross-London through ticket from, say, West Hampstead to the Brighton Line / south coast / etc would be valid via Kensington Olympia (and Clapham Junction etc) as well as via an Underground or Thameslink route across the centre. Thanks. I assume it's perfectly valid...

I understand that "Delay Repay" is a clever turn of phrase, but that delay compensation isn't strictly a repayment, rather it's compensation for being delayed. However, for convenience of fixing an amount, it's calculated based on a percentage of the price paid for the ticket on that journey...

Period return tickets between London and stations in the Island Line are cheaper than 2 singles, both in the case of Off-Peak and Super-Off-Peak; however, tickets are all explicitly routed via the ferry or via the hovercraft (and the prices are a bit different too). If I had an Off-Peak or...

I hope the experts here can offer some useful thoughts... 1. If I need to travel from London to Birmingham one afternoon for an event there, and then travel to Liverpool the next morning for a meeting there, and then go on to Manchester either that evening or the following morning, for a...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/fare-evasion-court-letter-help.252433/ Registered post and Signed For are different. Signed For is just that - it goes in the regular sytem, for £1.50 on top of ordinary price, and you get proof of posting when you hand it in at...

On Monday evening, the next departures shown for the westbound line at Kings Cross H&C/Met/Circle included one with destination Paddington. I'm sure I've never seen this before. Is this a normal/regular destination, or a result of disruption? Which Paddington SSL station would it be, and where...

I just looked up the price of a ticket from Chinley to Sheffield, for a possible journey later this month, and NRE is showing me an Off-Peak ticket for £13.70 and an Anytime for £11.00. What on earth is an Off-Peak for in a situation like this? Or is it a glitch?

I have a Semi Flex return on a train out of London Waterloo, which (I understood) was like a combination of a Saver outbound and a regular off-peak period return on the way back (for an intermediate price, between that of a pair of single Savers and a regular off-peak period return). But the...

If spending a few days in Belgium, and making a handful of rail journeys while there (mix of singles/returns, probably mostly - though not exclusively - on one route [ie Ostend-Brugge-Ghent-Brussels]), is there any type of local/regional ticket that's cheaper than just individual tickets for...

I see that RTT only allows searching past records for the last week. Is there any other easy-to-use open access site where you can find what time trains actually ran a month or so ago? Thanks.

mods note - split from here. Of course not - I'm comparing either/both of these (neither of which is physical cash in your hand/wallet/pocket where you can see it and keep track of it as you spend it) with, yes, physical cash. (As I said!) Some people find using the latter has many advantages...

I was puzzled, earlier, when on the northbound Northern Line platform at Waterloo a train arrived with "High Barnet (via Bank)" showing on the front. I did a double take, given the incompatibility of "via Bank" and being at Waterloo... (The platform indicator wasn't showing destinations of the...

mods note - split from this thread: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/is-berlin-hbf-the-capital-city-station-with-the-most-direct-trains-to-other-capitals.225839/ West Berlin duing that era isn't the only such "anomaly" - the Åland Islands, between Sweden and Finland, are part of Finland...

Mod note - split from this thread: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/how-would-you-reform-the-railcard-system.218819 I don't like the "political posturing" that was presumably the reason for the forces' and veterans' discount cards - and see no logic in those cards.

Mod Note: Posts #1 - #2 originally in this thread. Not "the only chance" - the situation will change if most flights are stopped within Europe, which they need to be.

Moderator note: split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/problem-buying-ticket-at-glasgow-central-today.200062/#post-4431566 As to Milton Keynes tickets - I was never offered the option of paying more for flexibility. But the point surely, is that it's ridiculous to have such an...

I recently had major problems during some journeys using DB (interesting in themselves, perhaps, but no time for details now). The questions I have at the moment are: 1. Is there any standard/automatic delay-repay type of compensation on DB? (So I know how much it's worth going to the bother of...