Recent content by NigelH

As it happens, I returned via London. I passed a yellow card reader at Farringdon with a sign advising people to tap their card to be charged the correct fare, but no barriers; a bit like the pink ones that are at certain stations, it seems.

Thanks for the prompt replies; unfortunately, that was what I expected. It does seem a crazy system, though: if I remember correctly, it's possible to transfer between Thameslink and the Elizabeth Line at Farringdon without passing a ticket barrier, so it would be possible to travel all the way...

TfL have announced that, for a trial period starting on 8th March, all Friday travel will be charged as off-peak. I am interested in travelling from Reading to Gatwick airport on a Friday in what would previously have been morning peak period. TfL's single fare finder quotes a fare for this...

Super off-peak single fares (while they exist, having read the LNER thread!) and off-peak fares avoiding London from places such as Reading to Scotland seem to have in the conditions something like "For long-haul train journeys, if a customer begins their journey at such a time that the...

I see that Eurostar now allows unlimited free changes to Standard and Standard Premier tickets up to 7 days before departure. Does anyone know whether this includes changes of route, for example changing Brussels-London to Rotterdam-London, please? I know that I will be making a journey on a...

That could be tricky at Reading (which is the station I plan to depart from) - the last departure before 09:30 is an Elizabeth Line service at 09:28 from the furthest platform from the barriers, while the first after 09:30 (albeit ruled out by the arrival time limit) is at 09:32; the first valid...

Off-peak tickets typically have a restriction such as "not valid to depart before 09:30" and/or "not valid to arrive into London before 10:00". This raises two questions in my mind: 1. In order to catch a train departing just after 09:30, you would have to go through the barriers several...

So my trip to Canterbury was postponed and now I'm looking again at the ticket restrictions (for a different travel time). According to brfares.com, an off-peak return from Reading to Canterbury is not valid on (amongst many others) the 1902 from Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads; however, the...

Waterloo and Southwestern comes to mind.

Thanks, I didn't know that. I'll give it a try. 1684150499 Is there a way to tell which fares are regulated, please? Also, where is it stated that such off-peak fares can't have time restrictions after 19:00? I do wonder why GWR sees the need for such complicated restrictions when trains from...

Would that it were as easy as that! The online journey planner gets it wrong too: the screenshots below show it allowing a journey using the 19:04 from Paddington which is one of the ones not allowed! (It also gets things wrong in that, for journeys where the outward journey is valid off-peak...

I'm looking at two return journeys from Reading, one to London and the other to Canterbury, and finding it very confusing to determine which trains one can take back in the early evening (16:00 to 19:20 or thereabouts). Each ticket's restriction code (O9 and 5K respectively) lists a number of...

Thanks everyone for your help; it looks pretty clear-cut that it's OK.

This might seem rather a strange thing to ask, but is it allowed to buy a (paper) one day travelcard from Reading to all London zones and then start the journey in London? The reason for asking is that I'm meeting a friend in London, travelling around the city and then both travelling back to...

Or you could take the Elizabeth Line as far as Slough and change there. 1679221563 I did complain to both organisations as requested, and GWR responded: "Looking at your tickets, and the travel restrictions that would not apply at the weekend, I see no reason why they would not have been...