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I believe that if the ticket machine which issued the ticket is still "on shift" and hasn't been cashed up, the ticket can simply be non-issued and a full refund given - you could give some sob story about no longer being able to travel. I've done it myself, but I hasten to add for entirely...

According to Swiss media, the express train involved was a Zürich-Schaffhausen Interregio service, I reckon he 06.05 from Zürich (apparently running 15 late), not a Zürich-Stuttgart high speed (!) service - there is no Stuttgart service at the time the collision occurred.

There is no connection between a train operator's arrangements to compensate passengers (whether it be Delay-Repay or Passengers' Charter) and the Performance Regime between train operator and Network Rail, known as Schedule 8. Schedule 8 works to a complex formula which, in the event of poor...

Well said Flamingo. An excellent post. :D

You're very welcome. Bear in mind that to get the best prices, you need to get in quick when bookings open (usually 92 days in advance). After that, prices will start to rise as quotas sell out, again, just like UK Advance tickets. Also be aware that if you print off at home, you must present...

I don't think you do :wink: For Rolandseck-Bonn, look at section 4, Nordrhein-Westfalen. Also, RP Ticket is valid Unkel-Neuwied. It's included within DB Regio, but not stated separately.

Not true I'm afraid. A Rheinland-Pfalz-Ticket is valid all the way to Bonn Hbf on that side of the Rhein.

For reasons I cannot fathom, DB seems to make it very difficult to find a map of the validity area for the RP Ticket. However, there is one in this brochure: http://www.der-takt.de/uploads/tx_dbartikel/KlasseFahrt.pdf Valid on all lines shown in blue. The limits of validity are marked with a...

The CP5 Delivery Plan includes expenditure of £13-15m on Huddersfield Station capacity. Works on the bridge at the east end could easily swallow a big chunk of that if strengthening works are found to be necessary. Similarly with platform 9, the subway would need to be extended beneath platform...

I don't think buying a child ticket from a machine is the official position (bearing in mind how much Germans are sticklers for the rules), but if you're stuck with no ticket office open, I think it's a better bet than buying a BC50 ticket. Also bear in mind, though, that if you can book...

Operationally, there are benefits to keeping the through trains on 1 and 8 with terminators sandwiched between in 4, 5 and 6 to reduce the number of conflicting movements. There is some scope to extend platform 1 towards Leeds, but not a great deal - but you could accommodate 8x23m and lengthen...

I'd agree with almost everything said by gunn13. Where an FIP IC/EC fare is available for a journey within a Verkehrsverbund area, I've never had a problem using this on RE/RB services as well. For fares on RE/RB services, a good guide is to look a journey up on the DB journey planner...

What is he/she alleging? To the best of my knowledge, the intention is to maintain the current off-peak frequency of 2 tph at Cross Gates, East Garforth and Micklefield and 3 tph at Garforth for the foreseeable future, with the current level of peak-hour additionals. The next major timetable...

Not true I'm afraid. There is also access to each platform by lift and escalator from the footbridge further down the platform. The automatic ticket gates (when in use) are at the entrances to the whole platform area. A further manual ticket check at the entrance to each platform would need more...

Can someone point to where this is laid down, please? My understanding is that Advance ticket holders must travel on the designated train, but are not compelled to use their reserved seat. When travelling on East Coast with an Advance ticket, I very rarely travel in my reserved seat and have...

Thank you, I stand suitably corrected. You learn something every day!

I really enjoyed tonight's episode, especially as it featured the 17.16 Leeds-Goole, but putting Knottingley West of Wakefield? Really? And where is this "South-Well" of which you speak? "Suthell", surely!

There's loads of ticket info on both the English and German versions of the bahn.de website. This will tell you all you need to know about Ländertickets, Schoenes-Wochenende, it's weekday equivalent, the Quer-durchs-Land Ticket and BahnCard. To quickly answer the earlier question about BahnCard...

Sorry but that's not correct. East Coast HST and Class 91 running times are different. On a non-stop KX-York run, a 91 is timed 2 minutes quicker than a 2+9 HST once the allowances are stripped out. East Coast's HSTs and Class 91s have their own separate diagrams and the timing load in...