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I don't know how common plain clothes inspectors are on TfL. I don't think I've ever come across one although I've been challenged by them several times on much less frequent trips on German local transport. It was just a thought that a fake plain clothes inspector could almost instantly blend...

It wouldn't be impossible to charge different fares for the different services even under a unified management. That already happened with Gatwick Express within BR and with hi-speed in Southeastern.

A query has come up in the disputes sub-forum where a passenger refused to tap the reader of a TfL plain clothes RPI with their bank card. They hadn't seen a plain clothes RPI before and were scared of falling victim to a payment scam. A contributor pointed out how relatively simple it would be...

Thameslink trains declassify the rear first class areas, but not the front ones. Last time I travelled on one (on Friday) there was an automated announcement about the position of first class.

Quite straightforward trip. Take a southbound CrossCountry service and change to Chiltern at either Leamington Spa or Banbury.

As an Oyster card costs £7, it's a no-brainer to pay that rather than £6.70 minimum for a single journey.

Good reason. I'm pushed back to smartphone tickets for SWR's equivalents - Evening Out and Sunday Out tickets.

Why "not on a weekend". My regular purchase of an outboundary Travelcard on a Smartcard is for Friday travel (& bought online). I favour it because it's a single mode eticket useable where TfL's current policy is to ignore e-Tickets on smartphones. It also doesn't need a battery and isn't...

From Heathrow you could head direct to Reading station on the Railair RA1 bus. That will connect with the direct services to Hereford which started at Paddington. You might even get through tickets. I can't remember what the 3 letter code for Heathrow Bus is but no doubt someone else will. If...

56% of London buses are already either electric or hybrid or hydrogen powered. 1714313864 I really don't think Wales is allowing enough time for 20mph limits to bed in. Driving is so much a "seat of the pants" operation that changes to things like normal driving speed take a while to get...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/so-confused-using-senior-rail-card-for-early-departures-chesterfield-to-london-chesterfield-to-manchester.266671/ It's as if they've gone to sleep in Railcard land. Network Railcard should have been renamed SE Railcard or...

It's possible that Chiltern might threaten civil court action to recover the unpaid fares. The OP admitted to 3 instances to the RPI, so they would have evidence to back up a claim for those. I assume that the time limit for civil cases is a lot longer than that for byelaw prosecutions.. I'm...

I'm sure that some variation on this occurs a lot, going by the astonishing high rate of "no shows" I have seen on reserved seats over the years on LNER. I even did it myself on one occasion, as (in this case, SWR) advances were astoundingly cheap.

A simple start on the tickets front would be to unify the various Smartcard setups that now exist on local railways serving London. The current fragmentation is some sort of nasty joke. I see the overall national fares issue as being the most difficult task to confront. It will need some...

That's not an answer to @AlterEgo's question.