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Whilst on the face of it these changes are great for Brighton folk, GTR have been very sneaky/clever here - the popular Brighton-Victoria route will now have 2 instead of 3 services per hour where Super Off Peak and Advance singles are valid to Victoria, and these will have additional stops too...

Of course, he could have just a waited 20 minutes for a (pendolino) first class seat if he didn't want to mix with the proles.

Hi all, I'm trying to book a space on the seated sleeper from London to Fort William for early July, but using www.sleeper.scot it seems to be fully booked not only during this period but every day I try during summer 2015. Is it genuinely this popular, or is there some other reason it...

You have to consider the amount of extra patronage the thameslinks get that is due to it being the cheapest (walk on) service to London rather than demand for London Bridge as an end-destination in and of itself. Which leads me to think the existing cheaper fares to go via thameslink won't...

I am about to do a balance transfer to a new credit card. The old credit card has a number of outstanding pickup tickets on it which I would rather not pickup all at once since (i) it will null the Moneyback Guarantee on the Southern tickets, and (ii) I find it more convenient to pickup near the...

£3.30 in rush hour? Yes, it is! --- old post above --- --- new post below --- (I am returning the following weekend - will get a walkup FCC single for about £6)

I could be in the ludicrous situation, therefore, of legitimately travelling on the 17.46 from Victoria to Hove, which makes a scheduled stop at Preston Park, but I am technically barred from leaving the train - and so I have to stay on and do a daft triangle? :roll:

Hi all, I have a Southern Advance ticket for a Victoria to Preston Park journey next week. Oddly, the compulsory service is for a Brighton to Preston Park train at 19.55. The Southern website suggested I get the 18.26 from Victoria to Brighton in order to catch that service at Brighton...

Durham is a station serving a cathedral city with only 2 platforms.

With private companies, customer service skills are more important. You can have a perfect knowledge of the network but if you have the communication skills of a goat, then you're not going to be much of an asset. Essentially, the knowledge can be more easily gained than people skills can, so...

London to Brighton is relatively short, so scope for time-saving is limited, but by the same token it would take less time to build. The existing BML is in any case one of the most congested lines at present. Rather than quadruple the existing line (which would be extremely expensive anyway)...

Is it? In my mind yield management is catering the pricing structure of, say, a rail service to maximise revenue with respect to expected demand. I fail to see the link of this to someone trying to reduce the cost of travel regardless of the time of day (i.e. fare 'avoision').

Interested in people's views on this: Tax avoidance (e.g sheltering money in tax havens) is generally frowned upon. It is not breaking the law but it is using the rules to one's advantage. So why are legitimate fare reducing tactics such as split ticketing and breaking journeys short (e.g...

I'm sure there used to be a direct Brighton - Waterloo service in the late 1990s (?) via Eastleigh, as an extension of the Brighton - Basingstoke service. Similarly indirect was the Victoria - Bournemouth service via Hove. Brighton - Great Malvern I've always found a curious one too.

So with the need to maintain a frequent service via Wimbledon/Earlsfield/Clapham/Vauxhall (e.g. the existing frequency, about 12-15 tph) and then Crossrail 2 via Wimbledon/Tooting/Clapham (up to 32tph) isn't that a hell of a lot of trains to disperse across London's SW suburbia?

With the proposed regional route on the TfL website, I can see the value for connectivity reasons in linking up the southern end of the Northern Line at Tooting Broadway, but as a result won't Earlsfield (and perhaps also Vauxhall) lose a lot of their services? This talk of freeing up space at...

In my opinion, what is needed to solve the main capacity crunch (at Croydon) and the general overcrowding in the South East is a HS1/HS2 style 'tunnel-to-the-M25' from the spare Waterloo platforms for example. This could split off at Redhill - the line from Redhill to Tonbridge is so straight...

I would have to wait 60 days for walk up fares to be credited to my account. EC Advance ticekts since they are non-refundable are credited within a couple of days. I think they are good value myself - these points have just accumulated from trips I've done over the years between london and...

Hi all, I was wondering if anyone knows the cheapest EC Advance ticket (which is at least £2) - I'm trying to tip my rewards balance from 498 to the 500 mark in order to get two free standard tickets :D Best so far is a Edinburgh - Berwick child ticket on a random August date costing...

It seems the implicit assumption made by the majority in this thread is that a train is immediately arriving. In reality, there will be a much larger set of combinations (including between directly connected stations) when you factor in waiting time. e.g. a service with a half-hourly...