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I have seen integrated coach services work well in Italy. They use them for off-peak services to maintain an hourly schedule, routes to places without a railhead and also as a pick-up from intermediate stations.

Thank you, I'll see what happens next time. I certainly got the impression from station staff it had been disabled at the time.

Not even obvious to their own staff. 1700332151 11.30 am, well past the valid start time.

Senior, but there are no options for any Railcards. Southern have said they are not available at some stations. I had tried Brighton and Worthing previously.

This may need a new thread, but it is related. Southern TVMs are really not up to the job. Twice I have tried to use them on walk-up as ticket offices have been closed (unavoidable reasons etc... another subject). I wanted to purchase a ticket with a Railcard which they simply do not issue. A...

Brighton TVMs do issue Concession/Railcard tickets. Try negotiating the 'gated' ticket office with a bicycle or double buggy! For occasional travellers it's a real disincentive to even try.

None the less, someone at Network Rail or DfT sanctioned the expense of evaluating the route as recently as 2020. The fact that it came up with a positive outcome is interesting too as it's always possible to 'adjust' the report for the desired outcome. Episodes of "Yes Minister" are still very...

Anyone know the outcome of the 30 September meeting (in summary)?

Let's stick to the original design and stop delaying and changing our minds!

Why do we design problems into our infrastructure?

Anywhere east/south east of Stratford where you can put a turnaround depot!

The problem is really historic in allowing politicians to think they can design infrastructure. A terminus will always cause capacity problems, compare that with the throughput of City Thameslink with just two platforms. Running Manchester and the North trains through to Stratford might have...

I was using WalletPasses so I'll switch to PassWallet Is Google Wallet supposed to accept PKPASS tickets or not? I have never been able to work out how to load them from the email. No, I don't want to use a PDF or print it on paper as that defeats to object of an eTicket! Thanks to everyone...

Here's an update on a new incident with Southern's tickets, but related to the original question. I purchased two, one for myself and one for another travelling with me. Simple single journey - Horsham to Epsom. My ticket I held in my Android phone the other was printed on paper. Both tickets...

This is further evidence supporting my point that this has not been tested. It is truly appalling that random, unstructured tests by users on a live system is identifying so many errors especially with critical interfaces like real-time incident reporting.