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I hold a Annual Season Ticket (Travelcard Gold Card): CHATHAM and LONDON ZONES 1-6 (PLUS HIGH SPEED). Am I right in thinking that this is available for all the shortest routes from Chatham to the various Zone 6 Boundary stations - obviously valid on HS1 to St Pancras, also frequently used and...

I still can't get my head around the limits on the range of tickets / stations that modern TVMs have. I can well remember that, during an idle moment at Annecy station in France back in 1990, I could get the machine to issue tickets from a distant station and do seat reservations on the TGV, and...

Strood - and it has some nice new flats nearby too! That said St Pancras is far worse - but no flats!

Rail head treatment is largely done by water jetting. A number of treatment trains follow quite complex diagrams during the day and during the night to cover priority routes and high risk areas. One of biggest cause of delay isn't loss of adhesion for traction/braking but where the...

It's two or three years since I have direct experience of the sleepers and there were numerous fault issues then. To my mind one of the key problems was that the sets only visited their home depot (Inverness) once or twice a fortnight. Many times faults would be examined and not "for repairs at...

Yes it is +High Speed. As for breaking the journey not an attempt to obtain a lower fare, more likely an attempt to have lunch - but I take the point you are making.

Some of the High Speed services from St Pancras to Kent continue round the circuit and return to St Pancras. The continuation is shown via a footnote to the relevant services in Table 194. e.g. 0825 weekdays departure from St Pancras goes out to Dover Priory (arr 1047) via Faversham - note B...

Try not to get too worked up about this there are far more important things to get angry about! It was a new idea for this bit of railway - worth trying but it hasn't worked because unlike other places with "next fastest trains too ..." such as London Victoria, it didn't have the full stopping...

I hold an annual season ticket Rochester to London Terminals Route Plus High Speed. 1st question: Occasionally I start and finish my day in Snodland and change at Strood. Outward travel is in the morning peak (0714 departure or 0814 departure) returning the same day in the evening...

Thanks everyone Already have a photocard - now I can rest easy and have an extra 30 minutes in bed in the morning.

Probably been asked before but I can't come up with suitable search terms to find it! Where there are no ticket issuing facilities at the originating station can the conductor/ticket inspector issue a weekly season ticket on the train? Thanks

Do you work for ScotRail? If you do you could use your free travel on the sleeper from Westerton (or whichever of the Highlander stops in the Glasgow area is most convenient) to Crewe and then onwards from there for a tad over £6 return. The outward connection is just over half an hour, the...

Walked over the Medway viaduct this weekend. safe to say I couldn't hear the trains for all the motorway racket. But a mile or so to the east with HS1 between me and the M2 a slightly different story: constant traffic drone and inaudible Javelins but the ageing Eurostars sounded like a jet...

Well thanks in no small part to the help and advice from members of this forum, I have been offered a job!! :D Medical on Monday should be OK, so all I have to worry about is the Scottish Criminal records office having something on me that even I don't know about!!