Recent content by GoByThameslink

Agreed, just tried it. I originally registered on the Thameslink website. Hopefully, for Digital Railcards, they will accept Screen Prints.

Per the email I received: The process of adding a railcard to the Key smartcard requires manual verification by our customer relations team as a one-off process. As a result, we are promoting the upgrade initially to existing users of KeyGo before promoting the initiative network wide in...

It's all down to Franchise committed obligations. I *think* the original commitment was to provide Oyster and Contactless to the Airport. The Oyster part has been removed because TfL's Oyster system can't support the number of zones needed (hence Oyster only goes as far as Radlett on the MML)...

Re ' my question re contactless and the shuttle bus remains', the answer is yes it can be used (already). From Luton Today: "The through fare to the airport will be the same as the ‘add on’ fare option (i.e. rail journey to Luton Airport Parkway plus the bus fare on top). GTR’s head of...

I've been told this is due to incompatibilities with the smart card readers on the gates at Cambridge which are operated by Greater Anglia. Fixing this is on the to do list, but I don't have a date, other than I am pretty sure it is not "soon". It has been working for sometime - I was tipped...

Also, there is the possibility that "London Thameslink" will come into use for stations to Peterborough & Cambridge in the same way as it has been valid on stations on the Midland Main Line to Bedford for years (decades?). If so, it will be a single price for stations St Pancras to London Bridge...

If your time in Llanberis allows, you might find an interest to Electric Mountain of interest - see the generators/pumps that the pumped hydro electric scheme has in place

Mat, yes it is: "For example, a ticket from Brighton to London Terminals is valid to Victoria, Waterloo (changing at Clapham Junction), London Bridge, Blackfriars and City Thameslink or Charing Cross Waterloo East or Cannon Street (changing at London Bridge). It would not be valid to, for...

St Albans City (all 4 Platforms) Flitwick (all 4 Platforms) City Thameslink (Ludgate Hill end ~ although you could argue it is a tunnel at that point ...) West Hampstead Thameslink (just Platform 1 ~ up slow)

Travelled on a Metro (Northern) service from Leeds to Doncaster on Saturday with a Virgin m-ticket. Conductor/Guard was perfectly happy with it. He didn't check the bar code - not sure if he didn't have the equipment - or chose not too - I don't think he had one of those bar code readers...

This is unchanged from the previous arrangements (except, perhaps now at least they admit the email will not be for some time). My *theory* is that after it is submitted online it sits in a queue somewhere and it is only after it moves on to the next stage that the email is sent. Last time I...

That must have been a screw up. Ever since I have been talking to FCC (and now GTR) about it, it has always been the plan to declassify the rear unit's posh seating area

I'd do everything outlined above - for safety in case you have a virus / malware, but bear in mind another possibility is they could simply be sending emails with your address from their servers / PCs - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_spoofing and (for example)...

Farringdon Platform 3 [for trains , mainly at the south end (the new section) where there is a tight curve. Towards the back of the train it is OK.

It is policy: From Thameslink - "A decision was made earlier this year no longer to produce printed versions of the composite ‘All Thameslink services’ and ‘All Great Northern Services’ timetables. The reason for these timetables being discontinued is a combination of the high unit cost of...