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It took me sometime to realise : Never use the A exit - well maybe if you are just going to the Wetherspoons. Edit : Well Ok if you really need to go shopping for fast fashion and yet another Apple gadget .... Use the B exit if changing platforms for an onward connection , need the toilets and...

It seems GA have referred the matter back to LNR as LNR have emailed me to say my old claim shows an 'incorrect journey' and can I amend it before they will consider the claim - its now showing as 'cancelled' not delayed as I input. I guess GA have made the change . I made a mistake on the GA...

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...

Not exactly a loophole - but I was on my third Senior railcard ( linked to my Oyster account ) before I realised I could use it with a LNR paper ticket out of Euston on a weekday afternoon ( 16:00 to 19:00 ). I had assumed for several years it followed the same restriction as applied to its...

I think Bletchleyite has this right. On request you should start the process of locating and presenting your railcard. People could use the word 'immediately' to describe this action. Most people would understand 'immediate' in this sense doesn't mean the card has to be before the RPI's eyes in...

The key thing is to expand the Euston LUL booking hall , double the number of gates and add at least one more up and down escalator - it only makes sense to do this with a complete rebuild including the link to the eastern end of Euston Square along with the HS2 station. Would there be any...

@Watershed Thanks for confirming this . Several months ago I arrived at BKM in good time ( around 9:15 ) to buy a SNR travelcard for the 9:26 . The TVM refused to sell me a discounted one . Rather than buy at full price I decided to wait at the TVM until 9:30 to catch a later train. The queue...

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 arrive into Euston on WMR about the same sort of time 5pm to 6pm once or twice a week. The problem is compounded by a fair few travellers using paper tickets & travelcards unable to get the gate to accept the ticket - the machine doesn't grab the ticket or the slot appears jammed. They then...

Subway readers at Watford Junction have been in place for many years - longer than I can remember . They can be found at the foot of the stairs from platforms 7/8 and the subway entrance/exit to the Abbey platform - possibly similarly for 9/10 and the steps to 1-4. There is also a reader at the...

Like a whole host of people - I do not have a driveway so unless I move house I can't see an electric vehicle being a sensible proposition. There are a number of public charging points near my flat - at the local station and a public car park. How safe is your vehicle when its left charging ...

At a tangent - but some people do claim they have better control over their finances using cash. I guess they take out a weeks spending money and squirrel it away in a purse or wallet and when its gone its gone. But unless you make a note every time you spend you won't have a clear idea of where...

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' -...

Anecdotal poor public perception maybe hiding an ulterior motive. Claiming that rail travel is so awful ( absent personal experience ) is a defence against a climate change minded friend asking you 'Why do you use your car so much ?'

I have a Herts CC issued ENCTS . There is no mention of this scheme on the HCC website that I can find . However its somewhat academic in my case as I have yet to travel between the qualifying stations . Now if it had been Tring to Carpenters Park - that would be different .

One way is maybe to make these multi-traveller discounts claimable after the event. Once you have your Two Together/ F &F - you nominate a suite of Oyster / contactless card users to be your posse - with their names and card number ( or unique registration ID ) linked to your Together/F&F -...

Some time ago the forum pointed me to bustimes.org - which I had confused with an iOS app - which appears on the phone as Bus Times but was actually titled London Live Bus Times . It only showed TfL services . Their phone logo is a red wristwatch over a single decker silhouette . This app now...

What's missing from all of this is acknowledgement from all parties that illegal migration cannot be stopped . "Stop the boats" claims from this government and the last will only cause yet more anger when they inevitably fail . All we can do is prevent a few and deter a few more - and so push up...

I have a Senior RC on Oyster and live a couple of stops further north . As purple-azumas says is perfectly possible to hop off the southbound train on platform 9 at Watford Junction , scan your Oyster and hop back on . You need to be reasonably mobile and sit towards the back of coach 5 in an...

I would also add that many people are part of closed social media groups - whether college students , workmates , neighbours , commuters who catch the same train etc where they are free to discuss fare-dodging tips but also to report if one of their number gets nicked - with the deterrent...