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Northern very, very often send £100 settlements for this sort of thing. There are a number in D&P. Boarding at Burley Park with a ticket from Leeds appears to be the most common one. Technically an excess is due, but you'll have to fight to get it down to that, perhaps even in Court. If...

They are e-ink, like Kindles. That stays displaying what it was last told to display permanently not requiring any power to do so. Which was done because they are battery operated, so they could be installed with no wiring. I think it does reflect very badly on TfW that they can't be bothered...

It's also partly the move to high quality espresso based coffee being the preference. That said, there's no reason you couldn't run a Nespresso type machine on a trolley, they do in Italy, and while those have the ethical concern of the pod waste (and that of Nestle's themselves) they do...

Why can't they run the afternoon trips with the CDL Mk2s? Or does that require a second set?

The main issue is reliability. If it isn't there randomly you're more likely to buy at the station. On the other hand there are enough stations that have no facilities nor anything nearby - that may be why the Settle-Carlisle trolley works, and I similarly recall really wanting a coffee on an...

If I recall rightly it points to the TVM and says to use that. It might also mention the Northern app, I can't remember. I'm pretty sure it doesn't mention the guard. One assumes though that the booking office staff (the only people who would have been in a position to post that on the inside...

Depends what trains. LNER, probably yes. Adding subsidy to long distance coach would probably benefit poorer people more than adding it to rail. Local services around the big cities, almost certainly not. These are used by all demographics. Subsidising Northern, for instance, probably has...

But also, and it's a big part of my point above, whether capital investment is preferable to ongoing subsidy. That is, whether we should be having TOCs price people off trains and still require heavy subsidy when (see XC for an example) they might make money (or at least lose less) if they...

Fixed costs aren't relevant to a marginal journey (which most rail journeys can be considered to be - the decision to own the car was already made) and thus should not be considered. The 25p rate applies above 10K miles, at which point the share of fixed costs are considered to have been fully...

All online sites will require you to do an itinerary for the outward, but most if not all have an "open return" option which doesn't require an itinerary for the return.

Service Quality Regime* if I recall. Often known as SQuiRe. * R may not be Regime, but I think it is. Might be Reporting or something else similar.

Avanti has some incredibly abrasive and unhelpful Twitterers out there, there is one in particular who is notorious for being rude to customers. It is fairly fitting with the quality of the rest of the operation* that this seems to be tolerated, though. * Bar those lovely seats...it's such a...

Do watch out though that some argue that if your journey isn't contiguous the usual protections (and through Delay Repay) may not apply. In principle they still do (nothing anywhere specifically says they don't), but some staff won't be helpful over it if they are ones who think otherwise. If...

Before e-tickets it wasn't unusual for people (ahem) to claim DR as if they'd travelled in this sort of case and put the claim towards alternative transport such as a taxi. With e-ticket scans this is too likely to be picked up, unfortunately. Very poor that Avanti didn't provide alternative...

Indeed. And as most journeys are "suburb to city centre" (something people often forget when comparing rail with air - airports are often more convenient to access by road) rail doesn't win on long distance journey time in most cases, with the exception of GWML, MML, WCML and ECML journeys to...

Indeed. Most people who would consider driving to London on an intercity journey are not driving a car that would require a ULEZ payment, so it can basically be disregarded.

I noted the attached at Windermere on Sunday. Generally it's taken that if a TVM is present it must be used, but this appears to give written permission to buy from the guard if preferred. I wonder if Carlisle at Manchester would be nice about it? I bet they wouldn't... (The train after I saw...

This is a perfect case for just asking the site you book with to increase the connection time - it's not break of journey (which isn't allowed on an Advance) it's wanting more time to ensure a connection is made. I do that all the time because I prefer to use the stopping LNR trains from...

Fiexibility should absolutely not carry a significant premium over the HMRC car rate. The car is 100% flexible - that is the baseline. I think a slight nudge up from that is justified to allow for some fares to be lower, but not significantly. ULEZ is basically irrelevant because the average...

Break of journey is not permitted on Advances. There is a reasonable chance you would get away with taking a different train on a non-reserved segment, however the best advice is to stick to the trains in your itinerary on Advances as otherwise there's always at least some risk of coming...