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Do you have a Staff travel pass? I have one for free travel with the TOCs listed on it. Completely separate to my Priv Card.

You can travel for £1 with a season ticket ticket holder in the West Midlands after 0930. This will cover you as far as Coventry.

I imagine this is because it's much easier to detect short faring, especially if there is a gate at either end.

Surely this is going to fail the abstraction test. You can already do 75% of it on a single train.

There's a service road next to Weston Road that you can park on. Fills up if you don't get there really early though.

Are we including Liverpool-Birmingham? Coseley is 153.6M

Probably a FIP coupon? I came back a couple of weeks ago from Switzerland and my coupon was only questioned once because for each dated box you get 48 hours. I just pointed to the text on the front which explains it and it was accepted. I also used my FIP card with the half fare discount once...

With the rise of e-tickets ticket barriers seem much more useful than in the past. Nowadays you only need to catch someone with a short ticket/ wrong railcard/child ticket once and you can go through their entire purchase history.

A day return is around £15, the period return is £24

I went to Swizterland a couple of weeks ago and had my ticket checked on all but the busiest of trains. The SBB double decker each had a team of 3 or 4 people checking tickets. Even the private narrow gauge concerns had plenty of ticket checks, I took a Zentral Bahn train from Luzern to...

There is a handy list at the bottom of this page which has a list of discounts you get from the tourist tax. It says 2024 but I can't imagine much has changed.

In my opinion the Gornergrat is a much more interesting ride than the Jungfrau as 90% of that is in a tunnel. The ride from Lauterbrunnen to Grindelwald via Kleine Scheidegg is pretty spectacular. If you want to save a few quid rather than using the expresses stick to the local trains, the...

It's not just South Eastern, theres a few others but LNER don't seem to offer it.

Kids can get a travel card for £1 if the journey starts outside the zones. https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/ticket-types/tickets/cff/

The Job centre railcards are extremely rare. Everytime I see it on a ticket I ask and 99.9% of the time it's used by fare evaders, in fact I've seen only one in the past 18 months.

Were you travelling as the one 'child' on the Family and Friends railcard ticket?

Is Birmingham to Albrighton valid via Duddeston? Changing at Tamebridge Parkway.

There's a few trains where they need to be locked up so drivers can do some tests in the cab. Most of them the doors stay open.

It didn't work very well this morning when the conductor had to kick everyone off the 0848 arrival from Birmingham so he could lock it up. The previous train had been cancelled so there were many people already waiting 25 mins before departure.

They are reinstating a half hourly service for most of the day from December. Although they are adding Coseley + Mossley hill into the 'faster' services. No idea why.