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Well I was confusing entering a train...without a valid ticket in the bye laws with intentionally travelling without...having paid the fare from the Regulation of Railways Act. Though does this bye law only date from 2005? I would have assumed it would have been in previous versions. In any...

I don't think this is the reason that the law says that you must buy before you board, particularly given that the law has been around a lot longer than even magnetic stripe ticket barriers. And indeed there are legitimate occasions where one might board a train without having a ticket scanned...

But possibly not on a policy that might well appeal just as much to them.

But they wouldn't prosecute for that would they? They'd prosecute for the single occasion of being unable to present a railcard. Although as they now know that a railcard was held and the conditions imply that one can forget a railcard once a year without penalty, this might also be viewed as a...

Indeed and I can just imagine someone here arguing that a passenger accidentally taking an old railcard with them was entirely at fault and deserved an enormous penalty because they should have had the sense to throw the previous one away as soon as it expired... 1713453516 You'd think so...

I don't think there is much alternative if you actually want to read about Welsh issues, at least in traditional (in some sense) media. Getting back to this thread, realtimetrains is showing a 231 running between Cardiff Central and Treherbert today (though I don't think one of the driving cars...

Indeed. But who can nip it in the bud? And how? Offered a way of significantly cutting rail financial support with little political fallout, what major party wouldn't take it?

That's subjective of course; I find them comfortable and no harder than anything else inflicted on us on any new UK train.

I'm sure that is the fear of many people. What really frustrates me is that eliminating ticket offices (which I think overall is much less serious, though I know it's very important for some people) had to go to consultation and there was enough adverse publicity that the government had to back...

It does look that way. Though the OLE supports which are going in on the side the loop would have to be do seem to be set well back from the track.

Indeed. At least in the summer, one certainly needs to plan ahead. The old train-ferry-train combination was a lot slower but it did mean you could just turn up on the day and travel with an Interrail pass. (Though in those days you'd have to pay for the UK part of the journey).

At least they're planned to have a more frequent evening service, though that will be more useful when the evening service operates on 6 rather than 3 days a week. Then again I can see this as an obvious target for cut-backs so we'll see how long it lasts.

Isn't it the case that on (domestic) TGVs there's a quota of Interrail reservations at 10 Euros, then if they run out you can now get one for 20 Euros so long as there are seats left? For Eurostar I think the quota is based on availability of something like the third most expensive fare, so...

Probably not unusual when someone holds a season ticket and uses it for the first leg of a longer journey.

Indeed, and I said so above. But I think in an ideal world the default station offered in cases like this would be the starting station for the first journey to be made, not a later one. If the first journey started from a station with no collection facilities it might be easy to miss that...

Just discovered an interesting feature of Trainsplit. I added an e-ticketable ticket to my basket, followed by one which had to be ToD. This forced both purchases to be ToD. Fair enough, it's perhaps too complex to mix the two. BUT: The "choose were you want to collect your ticket" bit only...

I think the wording about tickets being the property of the railway has been removed from the conditions of carriage. Which doesn't necessarily mean they don't have the right to withdraw a ticket used incorrectly.

Just as some balance, I put in a recent claim with GWR. Fairly uncontroversial - delay en route meant I missed a connection onto another GWR train. But it was approved in full after a few days.

I was wondering that...storage space for people coming back from a cheap grocery shop in Estonia? Hmm. My (very limited) experience was the reverse.

I think some organisations find it very convenient for support staff not to actually know customer rights.