Recent content by CharlieSpotted

If you're actually going into Wolverhampton on your crawl, make sure you visit The Great Western, not far from Wolves station. Absolutely cracking place. Cheers!

Siri, show me someone who's never tried to get a 3 car 323 out of New Street at 6pm on a weekday...

For the record (and recognising we're drifting off-topic) I recently had cause to contact National Express West Midlands about the behaviour of one of their drivers and received a well-written reply (clearly not a copy/paste job) addressing the points and reassuring me it would be dealt with...

Regardless how accurate that figure is, it is always true that "two wrongs don't make a right". If the senior management of Train Operating Companies recieve large bonuses despite the poor performance of the companies they run, that doesn't mean that's it's right to evade your train fare. The...

If it's the word I'm thinking of, they must have been pretty thin-skinned! Surely people in roles like this, hear that all the time!

Whilst the commentary here appears worthwhile, it's worth noting that it does not appear to be entirely impartial. There's a (brief) reference to a software tool they're developing which, of course, would be of use in this type of investigation...

I'd say even if you've had an "equipment failure" of this nature, saying "I'm not going to patronise this establishment because they're making me use this technology that once failed" is mad. My shower broke down once... Doesn't mean I'm never going to shower ever again.

I suspect the people who object most strongly to card-only have unfortunately fallen victim to a conspiracy theory that says that the government (Governments? The European Union? A global 'new world order'?) are seeking to eliminate cash and move to some kind of centrally-controlled digital...

... and happens on literally every claim I submit with WMT.

I live in Wolverhampton and for the life of me cannot see why the idea of a Tettenhall station keeps cropping up. There's a very frequent and generally reliable bus service between Tettenhall and Wolverhampton, where you can get a train anyway. Or, the erstwhile residents of Tetttenhall...

Because this isn't a game of one-upmanship, it's an effort to get the most favourable outcome in a situation where, more often than not, the train operator holds all of the cards.

Given how many threads have a post along the lines of with "Hadders will be along in a bit with advice", this sounds like a good idea. :D

Not that I think it's particularly relevant, but it took seconds to Google for this phrase and find one single result, on the Southeastern website...

As if they used "OK" to mean something other than "All sorted" :D

Well, it would do, if it was using contactless payments from the off as opposed to the Swift card... which, at this point in its lifecycle, is an anachronism that for some reason WMCA are determined to persist with... (sunk cost?)