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    Huge usage of splitting

    I was on a peak service from CDF to PAD, it seemed every passenger near me had a split at Swindon (could see on their phones when tickets were getting checked to Swindon, and the multiple scans of the tickets going on). I used to be the only person with a split. I've never seen so many people...
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    Cardiff to Bristol airport buses

    I was reading that Bristol airport has hit record passenger numbers. However, public transport access from Cardiff/South Wales is pretty poor. You either have a train + bus combo which involves a fairly annoying change, or National Express. The National Express service is decent, taking just...
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    Bristol area new electrification plans

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.business-live.co.uk/economic-development/new-plans-electrify-train-lines-28550295.amp Sorry - can't paste the whole article because of reach ads. Haven't seen this mention on the forum, not sure if it's new?
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    Cardiff to Quimperlé

    Travelling to Quimperlé in France in summer. Struggling for options here. Best option I can find is fly from Bristol to Nantes and rent a car. Otherwise, Cardiff to London, London to Paris and Paris to Quimprle, but seems like very limited services - one a day? Or getting the train from...
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    Train cancellation issue

    Hi, my friend usually gets the 0507 Cardiff to Paddington as it's super off peak. They have a huge history of buying this train in their GWR account, probably 2-3 times a month. Today it was cancelled. My friend got to the station in time but saw it was cancelled and went to get a coffee -...
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    Lyon saint exupery station/airport

    What a weird setup this is. Huge TGV station at the airport, but only a rubbish (and expensive, at least for Europe) tram to get there? I was tempted to get the T3 and then the bus to save the 15euro as still had a day ticket but didn't want to risk it, in hindsight would have been very easy as...
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    Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes trains

    Hi, flying into Geneva and then spending 5 nights, leaving from Grenoble in January. i'm thinking of spending a night in Geneva, then a night in Annecy, then going to Grenoble for the rest of it, potentially stopping off on the way at Chambéry-Challes-les-Eaux or somewhere for a lunch. Is there...
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    Site to compare availability of advances over a month

    Is there a site that shows availability of advance tickets for a certain time period over a month say? What I'm looking for is long distance singles into London in the AM peak. I can choose which days I'm in London, but need to get in before 10. Right now I've been doing flexible split tickets...
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    CDF PAD Day Travelcard ticket

    Hi, I see there is a travelcard ticket from cardiff (for now at least!). I'm just wondering does this have validity on the return train ticket for a month, or is it just a 'day return' style ticket? Basically, could I go to London from Cardiff, use the travel card portion of it the same day...
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    Alicante to Valencia

    Any ideas on the best way to get from Alicante airport to Valencia? I'm going to Valencia but the flight options are a lot better to Alicante. I had a look and it seems the trains are seriously irregular on this line, basically once every 2 hours which isn't ideal from an airport connection.
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    Bristol airport bus services

    Used this airport a bit recently and the bus service is pretty poor. Going to the airport was ok, but I could see other buses on the way back around 1pm were absolutely rammed. I got out of the airport at around 8.30 and the bus was around 10minutes late arriving compared to what national rail...
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    PlusBus dying off?

    Haven't seen much mentioned about PlusBus recently. It seems to be dying off given it can't be added to eTickets (as far as I know?) and everyone is switching to apps to buy their tickets. This seems like a huge missed opportunity as if it was on eTickets you could use it to the station and...
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    GWR app alternatives

    What is the best app for quick, simple train ticket purchases? The GWR app keeps signing me out, sometimes in the time it takes to check it's working on the train to the ticket barriers! Beyond useless. I don't want a complex split ticketing based app - just something that is very fast and...
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    Have railways became too expensive to build/improve?

    It seems to me in the UK construction costs for railways are now so high that there is really no benefit cost measure that will be much above 1, despite extremely aggressively hyping the economic benefits. Someone in another thread was wanting the £29bn roads plan to be cancelled (similar to...
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    Elizabeth line reliability issues

    Seems to be major reliability problems on EL recently, maybe related to the recent software update. 3 failed trains I think today and yesterday. Also today there was no passenger information systems working whatsoever when I was on it this afternoon, either above the platform doors or in the...
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    Should salary sacrifice be introduced for season tickets?

    Was thinking maybe a good way to boost season tickets again and encourage people to work from the office more (not sure if that actually is a positive, but the govt seems to think it is) would be to introduce the ability for employers to buy season tickets out of gross pay and not net as it is...
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    Battery trains range/distance

    Looking at how delayed the South Wales Metro project seems to be getting; would it have been a better idea to have just have battery trains that could charge at terminal stations (or perhaps a few miles on the route that was electrified to top it up), rather than bothering with all this...
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    Peak restrictions on the strike

    Say I buy a (super) off ticket tomorrow to London, and I want to travel back on Thursday, after work. Given it looks like GWR stops by 5pm, am I ok to get on the last service from paddington - given there is no service after 7pm, when a super off peak would be valid? I would instinctively say...
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    Strikes 16th & 18th March - what will be running?

    Given the RMT have cancelled the strike, I thought there may be more scope to run more services, but GWR is still saying an extremely limited service with services finishing around 19:30. Is this likely to be it? Or will they be able to run later services?
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    Ukranian residency card abuse

    I've noticed a lot of people getting on buses and trains near me trying to use ukranian ID cards as a ticket, clearly not speaking ukranian or russian whatsoever before. My assumption these are fake IDs. I think quite large scale fraud going on with this - as even if they were ukranian, it's...

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