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I was making a journey from Berkhamsted to Chelmsford on Saturday 11th October using the return portion of an Off-peak return £33.10 with SNR bought from the LNR website – and then taking a bus to the garage that had my car ready for collection. The LNR journey to Euston went fine but on arrival...

I wasn't aware until recently that my Senior Railcard is valid for use on peak evening services out of London Euston on LNR . My error . I had assumed wrongly it was exclusively off-peak only. Is this connected with the extension of contactless to my local station ( Berkhamsted ) You still...

I've just tried to book a ticket from Birmingham New Street to Berkhamsted for the 5th Feb leaving at 22:17 and changing at Milton Keynes as the return leg. Both Split ticket ( iOS & web ) and the forums site both give me an unspecified error - along the lines of 'Oops -something went wrong' -...

Hopefully more rail orientated than his Coastal Railways series - which were really a "Down Your Way" for TV - for those with long memories.

I am trying to signup to OFC - but it keeps rejecting any sort of password. The password strength indicator doesn't show any results . I have tried in MS Edge & Google Chrome . Plus generated several 8 and over character passwords ( with case, punctuation , symbols , numbers ) using my Norton...

A new 20 part series begins next Monday 22/5/23 at 18:30 on BBC2

I notice New Street sports a partition down the centre of platforms 4 & 5 ( I think - can't remember exactly ! ) - effectively dividing it into two separate platforms so you would have to go back up to the concourse to interchange. It looks solid enough to be permanent . What is the thinking...

John Betjemin's paean to the Metropolitan Railway is being repeated on BBC4 26th February at 22:00

Does anyone know why the Tring stopping service to Euston is now semi fast and its now the Milton Keynes service which stops at Apsley , Kings Langley and Bushey ? Is this due to the disruption default was to suspend the Tring service - meaning unscheduled MK & Northants service stops - so now...

After showing a national Old Codgers bus pass to the driver on TfL buses without issue for several years - today two drivers insisted that I swiped it against the Oyster reader . As expected - it shows an "invalid card" error . One then claimed it clearly wasn't valid and if I tried to use it...

New series of 4 programs looking at "iconic British built locomotives" fronted by Ian Hislop

Hot on the heels of series 12 comes series 13

A new series of Portillo's Great British Railway Journeys starts Monday 26th April 19:30 BBC2 oops I meant 18:30 - thanks for the correction

I was on a northbound Southern train yesterday . We had Just left Watford Junction and the guard was making his rounds . A passenger asked for a ticket from Watford to somewhere like Berkhamsted or Tring ( I didn’t quite catch the name ) . They said they had boarded at Harrow & Wealdstone using...