Recent content by hounddog

Plenty more exceptions. Off the top of my head I'll give you Shenfield, Watford, Hertford (East), Dartford, Elstree and Grays. Not to mention Chesham, Amersham and Epping which may be on the Underground network but are most definitely not in London.

Am I missing something? Why are tickets that are valid for cross-London transfer *ever* printed without the Maltese cross? Is there some subtle underlying reason or is it just incompetence in setting the fares up on the system?

In what way is the tube not a "train service" as in the original question?

Even if it was the guard clearly screwed up. After all he had a fairly big clue when selling the ticket. Or should the passenger have said "I want a ticket, oh and I also want to get off the train"?

The technology is fine. It's the half-baked implementation of it on the railway that's the problem.

So what did the guard do after the first missed stop? Did he just assume the driver had made a mistake? How many stops does the train need to miss before the guard queries it?

If I'm renewing a card that expires on December 17 I expect the new card to start from December 18. Not November 24 (first attempt) or December 25 (second attempt). If the system isn't doing that it should tell me so. It didn't.

I've had great fun renewing my Network Railcard online. I received the renewal e-mail about four weeks before expiry, so clicked on the 'renew now' link, only to receive a new card with an expiry date three and a bit weeks earlier than on the exisiting card. When I queried this I was told the...

I think you mean unarguably

What about the taxpayers who subsidise those TOCs?

There also seem to be more than a few drivers trying to deflect the question.

I'm not sure how the train can be blamed. Unless the buzzer buzzed itself...

So which bit of 'obstructive' or 'putting pressure on the employer' doesn't it meet? Why else are they doing it?

Some classic Rail UK pedantry here. By which I mean 'pedantry' that is actually wrong. A significant part of the workforce is declining to work Sundays at the instruction of the union. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck... And more to the point it meets the...

And that's before you take account of staff who don't know the rules and, rather than check, make up their own.