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My last delay repay payment was 40p. To those who'd say that's a waste of time, and my time is worth more than that, I'd say phooey. I claimed during time I was not working, and not being paid anything. That would have been the case if I'd claimed or taken the time to make a cup of tea instead...

Except when the 197 that should have run it is sat broken in a siding in Chester instead.

That they're notorious dumps. I don't see why a new, err, new town at IBM would be any different. If you're going to live in a dump and commute to Glasgow you may as well live in one of Glasgow's own dumps and save a bit of time. Also I'd point out that a large amount of people consider Milton...

"Reservations compulsory" on a network which, umm, doesn't offer seat reservations. The railway really is a thing of beauty.

I'm going to guess you've never been to Cumbernauld or Irvine!

Mixed length fleets cause problems on at least these operators: Avanti LNER GWR TFW Northern as well as the current XC fleet, so I never understand when mixed length fleets are suggested.

It isn't. It's a bit of a common myth on here that the only people going to/from Llandudno are from Liverpool. Llandudno's the main town in North Wales, the trains will be busy regardless of whether they go to Manchester or Liverpool. We were assured years ago that the reduced capacity of 197s...

Splitting and joining trains on a network which is likely to always struggle with punctuality just from its distances and interactions with other more self contained networks seems like something to be avoided.

Oh, you'd want them to be just handed over "in their current state". There was absolutely nothing wrong with the internal state of Avanti's 221s, far from it.

Multiple people have now explained how this works, and have suggested stopping overthinking this. TFW will pay you, GWR won't. Quite.

It's just handy that TFW are overflowing with spare units to start new services with. Oh.

"We won't run them singly" always turns out not to be the case.

There is no such thing as an off peak train. I imagine you know that.

Your initial TFW train was over an hour late. I would recommend stopping overthinking this and just submitting the claim on their website. They'll probably give you the whole fare back.

I really don't understand why there's a tendency on this forum to overthink delay repay. In this case I would expect just submitting the TFW form would result in a complete refund.

Nobody will be looking at platform numbers. All that's happening is the earliest time to your destination, honouring MCTs at any change, is being worked out and compared to the scheduled time. That's from computer data which has no knowledge of station layouts nor opinion on what a passenger...

It'd be the best part of £4, wouldn't it? Not a fortune, but I've certainly claimed for far less before now.

What was wrong with "this train terminates here, all change please"?

Few people from Bangor go for a night out in Bangor, let alone from Aberystwyth! That'll be a non-existent market, sadly.

I wonder if the railway is like this as a whole, or if the staff who post on forums are unrepresentative. Because I've never (in the civil service, local government and the private sector) felt the need to defend my employer or industry. All companies and organisations mess up.