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I've been sold a ticket to zones 1-3 for a journey to London City Airport in the past.

Thanks all, I was able to pick up the tickets this morning with a different card.

I've just booked a Eurostar "through ticket" from Sheffield to Brussels, and I've been given a ToD code to collect the tickets for the UK leg. Does this require the same card to collect the tickets as was used to make the booking, or do Eurostar allow any card for collection...

http://carto.metro.free.fr/cartes/metro-tram-london/ is your friend...

Yes, big works for months at a time over the last few summers and again this year (starting next Friday), with routes truncated and partial bus replacements.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-47879898 Tram-Train service suspended until further notice after fault found on one of the Citylink vehicles.

If she’s not familiar with Manchester Piccadilly it’s worth mentioning to her that the fastest route from any of the low numbered platforms over to 14 (where the TP will depart from) is to use the footbridge half way down the platforms - don’t follow the crowd to the buffer stops end, look for...

You definitely don't want to get a refund on your existing ticket and then buy a new one, but you may be able to get a "changeover" converting one ticket into the other one. The difference is that a season ticket refund is not pro-rata - it's based on what it would have cost you if you had...

I’d definitely question the Sheffield figure, as I’d hardly dismiss all the Leeds commuter and stopping services and the trans Pennine flows as mere “connecting services” into the London ones - Sheffield to Manchester and the airport is a huge market in its own right and the airport trains often...

I run a shop and we are charged the same for all UK debit cards - Visa, MasterCard debit, Maestro and V-Pay (though I can’t remember the last time I saw one of the last two types in the wild). Slightly higher fees for UK credit cards, higher still for corporate and international. And highest of...

“Approved” or “authorised”? If the card was authorised by the bank but the transaction was not subsequently “collected” by the merchant then the authorisation should disappear and the funds release in a couple of days. The merchant may have said it “wasn’t authorised” but this doesn’t...

Though there’s a bootstrapping problem there if you board at the same stop as an inspector and then can’t touch in as the machines have been turned off. Buses they can turn off the “remote” validators but keep the one next to the driver active and funnel boarding passengers through the front set...

It has been suggested above that the industry line is that “any permitted” is more confusing for passengers rather than simpler.

The way I’ve always seen it work the conductor will liaise with the RPI and either say something like they’ve done everyone from this row forwards or if that’s not practical follow the RPI down the tram to point out the people who haven’t had a chance to pay yet. Seems pretty reliable though...

Indeed, I did some work experience in the building that is now the Macdonald Hotel (it used to be a BT office building) and the Travis St entrance was far more convenient than the alternatives at the time.