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I think you are just supposed to compare your scheduled arrival time of 12.20 against your actual time of 13.31. I don't know which operator you claim against in those circumstances and whether they will blame each other.

What they haven't told you is that they don't have any legal powers to compel you to do either. Had you been stopped and presented a dubious ticket their legal power to compel you to do something would be the threat of prosecution if you didn't. For that matter in those circumstances it is an...

Other than marking the card in some way, how would the holder of a normal Oyster card establish whether a railcard discount or other personalised option had been added, making the card not legal to be transferred or lent to someone else? You could for example have more than one card in a household.

There does seem a persistent notion in some quarters that all tickets are "Advance", in other words valid only for a particular train. In this case that looks not to be the issue at all, rather that the ticket was purchased after departure. Unless of course that's not the case and the ticket was...

Basically yes but it wouldn't be visible to the passengers who would get a single ticket. The idea is to abolish the demand for split tickets to exploit pricing anomalies by removing the anomalies.

I take it they don't have any Thunderbird locomotives available. It looks as if a handful of 165 units were out on the lines to or from Paddington late on Saturday night. Were these scheduled or some form of emergency timetable?

You could potentially issue a single ticket priced as an "off peak" plus an excess to cover the "peak" section. Once the ticketing system supports adding separate tickets together to produce a single ticket, lots of ideas become possible. Similarly Advances priced as "core route" plus "local...

As Advance tickets are only available as Singles, isn't any Return ticket Open in the sense of not a specific train by definition of it being a Return? In parts of the London commuting area, Returns that weren't Day Returns disappeared in the 1960s and haven't been seen since. One effect is that...

That coach or similar also showed up on the Western Region later in the 1970s. Hornby even made a model of it or similar https://www.hattons.co.uk/35906/hornby_gresley_ex_lner_teak_buffet_car_in_br_blue_grey_e9131e/stockdetail?srsltid=AfmBOoqjP_4hTQlucDIRTYLLNcPXKFA7iS6yxfNXAnZHgLpEwYzTvcdg

It's a less intensive service on a Sunday, but checking Maidenhead to London, both Elizabeth and semi fast GWR services appear to be running normally.

Why is that not possible?

It doesn't look as if anything completely electric is moving. So that's closing the Elizabeth Line both to Heathrow and Reading. It looks as if the odd GWR train, presumably an 80x is stopping at Slough and Maidenhead. It's suggested that longer distance services are being turned at Reading.

Network operators still seem unable or unwilling to filter out calls claiming to be from phone numbers that don't exist. I suspect some of the scam attempts are voice activated. In other words if you pick up the phone but don't say anything, they terminate the call. The "Bank Security" call...

What did they use on rural lines before Kent electrification and the DEMUs? Unlike the other regions they didn't need any for London suburban work.

You would just get the one ticket, priced as the sum of its parts.

Alternatively when buying a ticket from outside the Network (South East) area to a station within, you get a discount for that part of the journey within the area, provided you hold the appropriate railcard.

When I travel north from High Wycombe I find that for off peak return tickets, splitting at Birmingham stations is usually cheaper than the single ticket. The suggested solution would be that a separate price for say High Wycombe to Crewe is abolished and the through ticket always prices as High...

Blue Grey along with Blue for locomotives came in with the xp64 which was a prototype of sorts for the Mk2 design. There's a belief that some very early Mk2s were delivered in green. Were any delivered in maroon?

Most of the Southern coaches were EMUs so were painted green anyway. With a handful of exceptions that applied to DMUs as well along with EMUs elsewhere.

Removing anomalies would reduce split ticketing. For example the price of a ticket from A to C changing trains at B should really be the same as the sum of tickets from A to B and from B to C.