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Hi Booking a trip from London to York for two adults and a child this Saturday with advanced first tickets. LNER’s website, and its twitter people confirmed, family and friend railcard discounts apply to first advance fares. However as you can see in these pictures, taking the 1500 train as an...

As a humble passenger with an interest in the railway, I’m curious how the number of staff at a station is determined. I should stress that while this is prompted by the current strikes I’m not taking sides here, just genuinely curious. The station I use every day, Herne Hill, usually has at...

Mod Note: Posts #1 - #22 originally in this thread. The Southern twitter feed is worth a look. Overcrowding been pretty bad in the peaks on the South London trains that have been reduced to 4 or 5 car, especially where services had already been reduced to half hourly. Effectively capacity is...

Waiting at Peckham Rye recently, I was struck by the extraordinary variety of operators and liveries for a 4 platform station, all at high frequency. 8 Southern per hour (reduced to 4 much of the week at present) and 8 Overground from platforms 1 and 2, and 8 Thameslink (at peak times) and 4...

Just tried to book return tickets to Nottingham from St Pancras on 9-10 October. Got there in the end but website was really unsatisfactory, two questions for this group if anyone has any insights: - It kept proactively offering me first class upgrades for very small sums ranging from £1.50 (for...

For the last few years SE have amended suburban services so that they omit stops at certain stations off peak during the leaf fall period, which causes quite a bit of customer inconvenience. The bit I don’t get is surely leaf fall on the tracks would be worst first thing in the morning, and the...

Tried to find an answer to this elsewhere but can’t see it’s been discussed before. Which National Rail stations have a) lifts and b) escalators as their main access - ie excluding where disabled lifts are available, more where an able bodied passenger would be expected to use them to access the...

I bought an annual season ticket for the first time between my local station West Dulwich and London Terminals, and was pleased to discover that the ticket also bears on it the words ‘also valid from Tulse Hill’, another nearby station, which opens up a number of other useful opportunities...