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With any other railcard (I think) I can buy tickets online without actually having the card. With this one, you have to have the card before purchase. I also didn't manage to find the page that kkong poster earlier.

thanks, my problem was that I didn't want to buy the card and then find the ticket wasn't suitable for me - I already have a senior card, and living in Surrey, I don't buy so many hot drinks from Scotrail that will repay a £15 upfront payment!

Thank you. They could have said as much - including the return being valid for 30 days regardless - on their website. I'll see to it later tonight.

I've tried everything I can think of - except actually buying a Club 50 membership - and cannot get Scotrail to offer me a £17 fare (Stow-Inverurie) on 19th March, back on 20th which is apparently the last day of the offer. Do I have to have the membership card and log in?-

I've not read the whole thread, I'm afraid, but this new thing can only have come into being by someone asking, Can we make a website that's even worse than the existing one? It seems ok for one query as long as the first answer it comes up with is the one you want, but try to do two things -...

Yes indeed.

Thank you. I'll try a ticket machine next time I'm near a station. I didn't know that feature of brfares. To Manchester Airport all the fares are TPE only and Advance only, so there must be some notion of a service!

These exist for many places south of Carlisle on brfares.com, those to Manchester Airport valid on Transpennine only. Transpennine accept both towns as legitimate stations but don't offer any fares. NRE and RUK's booking engine don't recognise the town names. I think - I'm no expert - Hawick is...

There was a queue of a good 100 people and suitcases (guess) to get out of the barriers at Gatwick this afternoon, impeding my ability to get to platform 2.

One advantage of Gatwick Express used to be that there was always a train waiting in the platform, but now that Gatwick station has been rebuilt to allow that without using platforms 1 & 2, there is no need for these long periods of platform occupation.

There's a hill between Plymouth and its station, but possibly the station is on the same level as the town centre.

At Redhill we have two screens next to each other both showing the same at all times. I wonder how expensive a project it would be to make one show 'next departures' and the other one to scroll through everything else.

A punctual train seems to be in the platform for ages at St Pancras - maybe they could have cut that time down by 30 sec to compensate for the slow arrival.

I lived in Frankfurt for years and don't recall the S-Bahn ever being disrupted in this manner. (Nearly every suburban train is sent through the city in a two-track tunnel (the first station in the tunnel has four tracks)). For many of those years a 24 tph service was reversing in a two-track...

There was a broken rail just south of St Pancras on the northbound line today. It had the effect that trains had to cross it at 5 mph, according to our driver. As a knock-on effect, half the trains were cancelled for hours and hours, including the entire service between Rainham and Blackfriars...

Weds 28/3, 08:15 from TAU and 17:04 from PAD.

I practically never bother with advance fares so what I'm about to describe may be normal. I needed to travel from Taunton to London and back during the peak periods in late March. NRE offered advance tickets at £22 each way with a senior railcard. I clicked through to the GWR site to purchase...

too true! Especially at East Croydon.

There need to be screens that permanently show the next departures, and screens that can show anything else like departures for the next three hours, a warning that the platform is wet and therefore slippery, that leaves are expected on the line sometime in the next month. What could be...

When I was younger, on a visit to Paris I noticed that everyone who looked fit jumped over the barriers - I was appalled until I realised that jumping over the barriers was still possible if you had a valid ticket, and a great deal quicker. So I joined them. When barriers were introduced here I...