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I tried looking up the cost of a single journey from Heathrow (Terminal 4) to Reading, travelling in the evening peak and not via Paddington, and I get completely different results from National Rail, BRFares and TfL. National Rail Enquiries gives me the choice of contactless (£34.10), off peak...

While browsing through the information on BRfares.com for journeys from Reading to Paddington, I spotted the rather strange unpublished restrictions below (amongst others) on off-peak returns: While I suppose it's conceivable that, during engineering work, some operators' trains might be...

Yesterday I was travelling from Reading to Kings Cross, and so bought a return from Reading to London Underground (LU) Zone 1. Normally I would have taken Great Western Railway (GWR) to Paddington and then change to the Circle/Hammersmith & City (H&C) Line, but there was major disruption to...

I am planning a journey from Loughborough (LBO) to Reading (RDG) via London and wish to use a "super off peak" ticket. On the outward journey, I plan to stop for a considerable time in London before continuing to Reading (obviously paying separately for any extra underground travel). My problem...

I want to make an off-peak day trip from Reading to White City Underground. There are a plethora of standard-class fares (55 in total on brfares.com, of which 21 are off-peak day returns if I counted correctly!) and (I believe) at least four viable routes: 1. Via Paddington and the Circle Line...

As we all know, senior railcards are valid for all journeys except when they are totally within the London and SE area, when they're not valid for travel in the morning peak period. So if I wanted to travel from (for example) Reading to Cambridge on a day return leaving in that period, the only...

I'm planning a journey to London from Reading, returning the following day. I plan to make a stop in Zone 1, then travel to Zone 3 where I will stay the night, then the next day travel to somewhere else in Zone 3 (which plainly I will buy a separate ticket for) and finally back to Reading, and...

TfL have announced that, for a trial period starting on 8th March, all Friday travel will be charged as off-peak. I am interested in travelling from Reading to Gatwick airport on a Friday in what would previously have been morning peak period. TfL's single fare finder quotes a fare for this...

Super off-peak single fares (while they exist, having read the LNER thread!) and off-peak fares avoiding London from places such as Reading to Scotland seem to have in the conditions something like "For long-haul train journeys, if a customer begins their journey at such a time that the...

I see that Eurostar now allows unlimited free changes to Standard and Standard Premier tickets up to 7 days before departure. Does anyone know whether this includes changes of route, for example changing Brussels-London to Rotterdam-London, please? I know that I will be making a journey on a...

Off-peak tickets typically have a restriction such as "not valid to depart before 09:30" and/or "not valid to arrive into London before 10:00". This raises two questions in my mind: 1. In order to catch a train departing just after 09:30, you would have to go through the barriers several...

I'm looking at two return journeys from Reading, one to London and the other to Canterbury, and finding it very confusing to determine which trains one can take back in the early evening (16:00 to 19:20 or thereabouts). Each ticket's restriction code (O9 and 5K respectively) lists a number of...

This might seem rather a strange thing to ask, but is it allowed to buy a (paper) one day travelcard from Reading to all London zones and then start the journey in London? The reason for asking is that I'm meeting a friend in London, travelling around the city and then both travelling back to...

A week or so ago I bought an off-peak return (with railcard) for the above route, and was offered two options: "via Gomshall" (i.e. the direct line via Guildford) and "Any permitted route". I had previously checked permitted routes with the National Rail journey planner, and noted that...

I'm looking to make a day trip from Reading to Purfleet, travelling off-peak both ways and using a Railcard. As far as I can see, the cheapest option is a return Reading-Rainham (Essex) (£17.60) plus a return Rainham (Essex) to Purfleet (£4.05), making £21.65 in all. All trains to/from...

I've seen lots of helpful information here on paying excess fares to use a ticket via a different route, but I have a question that I haven'rt seen covered. If I'm travelling from Reading to any station in the North (for example Kendal), then two off-peak return tickets are offered: a cheaper...