Recent content by TJ Barrent

Slightly less straw-clutching reasons (both actual personal experiences travelling on F&F railcard) would be seat reservations having been made in different coaches (busy York-Edinburgh pre-Christmas service, no one willing to swap and older child who regularly uses trains alone being happy to...

I’ve read through and can’t see one yet but this thread would not be complete without a mention of Mark Mason’s book “Move Along, Please”. If it has already been mentioned and I’ve missed it, my apologies.

This! When traveling or booking under these conditions it is well worth carrying the leaflet or other “official” printed item showing the relevant T&Cs, or have the appropriate webpage bookmarked on your phone. As normal, most staff are great, but Sod’s law says the one that missed that bit in...

I think I saw that coming in to Edinburgh platform 9 shortly before our VTEC to London left but was too busy trying to find our seats after they swapped our HST for a class 91 at the last minute to think about it at the time. Also, we are booked on northbound low lander on Monday 7th, our...