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Well, there's a captive audience and £7.50 probably compares well against the cost of travelling from other European airports to the city centre by light rail or train. The price will be based on what the market will bear, rather than the proportional incremental cost of the mileage between the...

The 314s ran with a Ticket Examiner and DOO for as long as I can remember. Sometimes when the door was failing to lock, the driver would come up and sort it (or lock it and mark out of use).

I arranged to have my Scotrail season ticket (on smart card) cancelled on Friday with a refund of the unused period. The person I spoke to in the smart card hotline said that Scotrail were waiving the administration fee for season ticket refunds due to the current situation.

The 2020 to Larkhall on Monday (via Queens Park) was a three car 314.

I got £89 towards my next season ticket. Saw a couple of other people on Twitter with the same amount too. If it’s a simple split and everyone got the same share, then it suggests that there were almost 11,236 smartcards with season tickets active on the eligibility date. Seems quite a low...

I have a monthly season and an off peak return to Exhibition Centre loaded onto my card and they both show on a ticket machine when I check. However, the last time I did this (with an off peak between Glasgow and Edinburgh), the validator at my home station refused to check me in and when I...

Sorry - yes smart card tickets can be collected at the platform validators only. In the original post, I thought he/she was interested in the Seasons Loyalty discount on tickets bought for other ScotRail destinations. i.e my smart card season ticket is valid from Croftfoot to Glasgow, but...

Interesting question. Scotland doesn't really have counties or shires in the same way that England does. It used to and indeed Glasgow formed part of the Lanarkshire historical county, but the counties were merged once in the 1970s to become bigger regions such as Strathclyde, and then demerged...

Croftfoot Station (Glasgow) is in both the City of Glasgow and South Lanarkshire. When I travel to work in the morning, I leave from the Glasgow side. But when I return home I get off on the South Lanarkshire side. The station itself has a City of Glasgow postcode (G42). http://imgur.com/zbVO5y7

Platform validators only. Does the collect from window option not operate in the same way as TOD in that I just turn up with a reference number and debit/credit card? As I understand it, the online purchase option does not do any sort of validity check and simply treats the seasons loyalty...

It's frustrating as my local station doesn't have a TVM. So weekend trips with the wife need to be planned in advance. I suppose you could buy online and collect from the window of an open ticket office.

Scotrail allows pick up on any card when I book via the website.

Like others, I struggle to see the advantage of the Cathcart Circle option. Also the logistics - would the light rail include the Neilston and Newton branches? Or just the circle itself? Much better to aim at replacing the main bus arteries into the city centre. With Hope Street being horribly...

I have a Croftfoot to Glasgow season ticket on my smartcard and it normally works fine (except for BOJ when it just says declined). Yesterday I had to travel to Edinburgh and bought a return Glasgow to Edinburgh ticket online and loaded it to the same smartcard. At CFF in the morning it kept...

I have a Smartcard that I use between Croftfoot and Central. Sometimes if I'm visiting my parents who live on the Neilston branch I buy a paper return from Mount Florida and combine the tickets. I suspect they will one day bring in a mandatory touch out rule and at that stage I will have to go...

Have noticed the same with my Scotrail Smartcard. I have had it checked twice on the train with a mobile phone. I suspect it takes longer to check smartcards than the usual glance at a ticket. Presumably if presenting an invalid card you would run the risk of a penalty fare. I suppose the risk...

There does seem to be a big focus on "buy before you board" at the moment. More so than I ever recall during the National Express and First franchises. As someone else mentioned, there was a big thing a few years ago about not giving discounts on the train but that seemed to have passed...

I have a bunch of those Neilston to Tweedback (and return) tickets right through to the middle of April. I use them for the rather boring purpose of commuting between somewhere on the Neilston line and Glasgow Central. There's a possibility I might be commuting from somewhere on the Newton...

I was there for almost three hours. There was a noise somewhere in the middle which sounded like it was switching to a new roll of tickets. I was also prepared to let other people who were coming for an imminent train buy their tickets first. But they all just went to the station platform...

Thank you all and look forward to seeing a few of you in May in Galashiels.