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    Birmingham Moor Street gate line

    I’m quite surprised how quickly they are being installe.
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    Birmingham Moor Street gate line

    I'm fairly sure that not all the gates have optical readers - not sure what's involved in fitting these though?
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    Chiltern Class 165/168 compatibility

    Surprisingly, we had a 165 on my morning journey to Birmingham Snow Hill the other day, instead of the usual 168. I was expecting to be late, but actually arrived into Snow Hill more or less on time.
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    Chiltern Class 165/168 compatibility

    Again, apologies for ignorance, but aren't 168/0's beefed up 165s, whereas the 168/1 and above are Turbostars?
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    ANPR Car Parking - wrong registration entered?

    Thanks - that's what I did in the end just in case.
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    ANPR Car Parking - wrong registration entered?

    I went to buy my car parking ticket at the railway station this morning. It's a SIP car park, and not the official railway car park. It's one of those car parks where you have to enter your car registration. I'm not sure if it's normal, but the machine allows you to enter 8 digits. So being...
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    Chiltern Recovers £400,000 of Evaded Revenue

    I've certainly noticed the increased Chiltern presence this year. I normally travel from Banbury to Birmingham Moor Street/Snow Hill twice a week for work. It used to be pretty random whether the barrier gate line was open in the morning, and extremely rare for the gates to be in operation in...
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    Birmingham Moor Street gate line

    There was a thread last year (now closed) about the lack of ticket barriers at Birmingham Moor Street (https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/gate-lines-at-marylebone-and-moor-street.248346/post-6212664). There looks like some activity at the gate line at Moor Street. An area of the concourse...
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    Accused of reusing a open return ticket

    Okay, so when I open Apple Wallet, it's asking me to scan for app's to add? So how does it work? Ta.
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    Accused of reusing a open return ticket

    Off topic, but what are the advantages of using an Apple/Google wallet? I travel from Banbury to Birmingham Snow Hill twice a week, and just open the ticket from the Chiltern website. I do get the message saying "add to Apple Wallet", but never do it.
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    XC Voyager Refurbishment

    I haven’t seen a double voyager on the South Coast for months.
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    Senior Railcard - is this right?

    Do the ticketing websites know when to, and when not to, apply the railcard discount?
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    Senior Railcard - is this right?

    Wow, thank you. That's pretty good.
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    XC Voyager Refurbishment

    Probably going off track, but pre-Covid this was also hourly. So are these coming back?
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    Senior Railcard - is this right?

    Hi all, I travel twice a week for work from Banbury to Birmingham Snow Hill. I catch the 07.09 Chiltern service in the morning, and the 16.45 Chiltern return in the evening from Birmingham Moor Street. This is on a Chiltern only Anytime Day Return. Now, I'm approaching my 60th birthday, and...

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