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Hi Received an email from Southeastern yesterday as follows: "Network Rail monitoring has detected ground movement affecting the line between Dover and Folkestone, following the wettest February for 200 years. Regular checks are being carried out on the line and a temporary speed restriction...

Hi everyone. I have an advance ticket, first class with senior railcard, from Bradford to King's Cross on the 07.58 on Thursday. I saw today's train was cancelled because of a broken down train - if that happens again on Thursday (not sure just how broken the train is and I know they don't have...

Hi! Looking for advice on a routing, please. If I have a Folkestone to London Terminals via HS1, and I want to go to Liverpool Street, is it valid via Stratford International and Stratford main line? I feel it isn't, as I've not seen it listed anywhere, but it must be a shorter route than...

Hi, I have Key for Southeastern, always worked fine but this morning it just wouldn't load my daily ticket (Folkestone to St Pancras with Network Card at £23.55.) Turned phone off and on again, still kept saying "no tickets found". Booked at 07.53 for the 10.02 train and kept trying. The Twitter...

Hi, could I have some advice please? I'm planning to do a London to Birmingham trip in order to visit some branches of the retailer I work for. I'm planning on Birmingham, Leamington, possibly Banbury and Oxford. I know that a London to Birmingham return used to be fine to go direct Euston to...

Hi Have been persuading a couple of colleagues that they should take advantage of the work interest-free season ticket loan - both of them only need zones 1-2 travelcards and have Oysters. However, I've hit a gap in my knowledge - I can see from the TfL website that they no longer accept...

Hi A question on zones 7-9 which have expanded around different parts of outer London recently. I have a Walmer to Zones 1-6 annual - originally there were only these 6 zones to essentially this got you travel throughout the zonal areas. And then the top end of the Met line was brought in...

Hi After years of buying a Travelcard on Oyster, I'm moving into Southeastern territory and need to buy an annual paper ticket. Would appreciate some advice as their website is a bit confusing - on the season ticket page it says: "All season tickets must be purchased at least 7 days in...

Hi Am thinking of moving down to the Kent coast and wanted some advice on season ticket routings back to London - would be looking at an annual all zones plus HS. Prices are all much the same depending on whichever area I look at so I was trying to work out which ticket would give most...

Hi One of those idle moments looking out of the window at Vauxhall got me thinking (always dangerous). Right now, platforms 7/8 are the narrowest island of the four, yet see very high passenger volumes. Platforms 5/6 are wider, yet are on the fast lines so don't see any trains stopping except...

This is neither a dispute nor a prosecution but I'm posting because it's an interesting example of how your brain can lead you astray. I have an Oyster with an annual zones 1-4 Gold Card plus top-up money for travel outside my zones. Went to Epsom to have dinner with a friend, tapped in at...

Hi SWT have announced tweaks to the two extra trains they put in the timetable last May from Raynes Park - the 07.21 and 09.22. For a month from Monday they will be running fast from Earlsfield to Waterloo - here's the text from SWT: "We operate one of the busiest networks in Europe, with...

Hi Now that we have RTR models of both 2-BILs and 2-HALs, can anyone confirm whether or not it would have been possible, sometime in the 60s, to see a green unit with no yellow panel at the same time as a blue unit with full yellow ends? Would they have overlapped at all or would all of the...

Hi Odd localised power cut in Raynes Park this morning that affected some traffic lights outside the station, the info screens and gates on the up side. Staff were telling people with Oyster PAYG to touch in on the down side which got me thinking - those of us with Oyster Travelcards who just...

Hi I think this has come up before but I can't make the search bring anything up. Someone's just tweeted that they're on a busy train and a group of four people have claimed to have bought extra tickets so they can put their feet up. I'm pretty sure that I've seen that they can be asked...

Hi Going on a work trip from London taking in Lewes and Brighton. Having checked the routeing guide and BR fares I think I'm right that if I get an off-peak any permitted day return London to Brighton I can go to Lewes, break my journey, then go on to Brighton, break again there and then...

Hi I have a z1-z4 annual travelcard loaded on to my Oyster plus a PAYG balance for out of zone journeys. I know that I don't HAVE to touch in or touch out within my zones but I'm intrigued by my journey history. On Friday, for example, touched in at Piccadilly Circus and out at Waterloo...

Hi Looking for some advice please on how Pullman trains like the Bournemouth Belle were made up, in particular the ratio of kitchen cars to parlours - would it have been 1:1 or 1 kitchen to 2 parlours or the other way round? Thank you!

Hi Does anyone have a memory of a derailment at Raynes Park involving (possibly) a 4-SUB coming off whilst turning into platform 4 bound for Chessington/Epsom? Maybe in the 70s? I have a vivid memory of this but Google's not turning anything up. It's not the 1967 one, as far as I'm aware...

Hi all If you're up for a bit of a nostalgia then do check this out - it was an attempt by NSE SE to show the public exactly how difficult it was to run the tangle of lines into Charing Cross and Cannon Street. Trouble is, of course, it didn't QUITE work out like that, not least because the...