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Hi, I’m planning to travel Brighton-London Bridge next saturday for a social event. This means I can use a thameslink only ticket - significantly cheaper at the weekend than southern. In recent years I’ve been using KeyGo ie payg, and always been charged correctly. It has the benefit of...

I have a gtr key Smartcard. Key go is active which works great for journeys Brighton-London etc (but no travel card) . No thinking ahead, railcard included. I also have a swr railcard where I could also add payg. Today I needed to travel portslade-Portsmouth. I can’t use payg as some options...

I have a eurostar journey booked in January. I’ll be travelling from Brighton, and usually just get a ticket on the day (or use my smart card payg). With strikes looming, I’m considering getting the brighton-london CIV ticket, thinking this might make any refunds/delays easier to manage (though...

I have a KeyGo smart card from Thameslink which I find useful for the following kinds of journeys - plusBus in Brighton (my origin) + return to other thameslink stations especially central London, as I can use on bus directly without getting a ticket first - journeys where my return station...

I have an ITSO smartcard from Thameslink (the key) (actually I have 3 others, never used from southwest trains, SWR & bluestar/goahead) In their app it seems I can directly load season tickets to the smart card, and read what tickets are present, but cannot load daily tickets. I can of course...

Note - I am referring to 'eticket' in a very general sense. ie ability to buy a ticket online and store/use on phone (be that in app, barcode, apple wallet etc) I have found that generally I cannot purchase an eticket from PORTSLADE (Southern). This includes from thameslink, southern, lner, gwr...

I plan to travel from Brighton to London on the next two weekends. I've done the journey before, though now I live in - Hove, actually ;) As far as I can see there is still a Thameslink only ticket for this route, costing £8.70 return with a Network Railcard. My terminus would be London Bridge...

I have an old 'south west trains' smartcard. I also have 'the key' Both are supposedly ITSO compliant. 2 questions a) Are either of these cards suitable for making journeys on SWR (where they support such routes)? b) Are tickets loaded at a SWR station available at all on GWR...

My partner sometimes travels brighton-soa at weekends. Normally this is 'via barnham', but when there is engineering works along the route the bus replacement adds significant time and hassle, so she tends to get the 'not via london' ticket. More expensive but permits changing at clapham. Am I...

Can anyone tell me if Brighton - SOA (off peak return, via Barnham) is valid via Portsmouth for a break of journey (=shopping)?

At the weekend I went to buy a ticket for CFR-brockenhurst (cheap day return). Though 2 of the 3 of us had railcards, it was pointed out a groupsave was cheaper as 3 of us get discounts. Super. Change is at SOA However I was also told the ticket (sold by SWR) wasn't valid on XC. As it happens...

My local station (chandler's ford) has had a yellow card reader for years. However the station is not shown by SWR as being valid for smartcards. I asked in the ticket office last weekend and was told they thought the machines were going to be activated in the next few days. Does anyone know...

I've been looking at rail journeys between Brighton and the Eastleigh area. For the next 2 weekends at least there seems to be some rail replacement especially in the area between Littlehampton and Brighton. The national rail site mostly suggests more expensive tickets going brighton/clapham...

Can anyone advise if a single from Chandler's Ford to Fareham is valid via Southampton Central (SOU)? The National Rail Enquries (NRE) site only suggests Eastleigh (ESL) to change - no surprise, though from Southampton Airport Parkway (SOA]) either route (via ESL or SOU) is possible. The...

A friend just pointed out there's no trains (or at least few) around southampton Just seen on twitter: The issue with signalling at #SouthamptonCentral is a loss of power to control systems. Trains in the area are stopped for safety reasons.