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I've heard from a friend that she couldn't get close to Basingstoke station this morning and had to abort a trip to London. Online sites say that the whole area of the station and Alencon Link in front of it are closed to everyone including buses. I went through at 08.49. Platform 4, and I'd...

Why not control future EMUs (& DMUs) from the rear cab? It would lower the risk for the driver in the event on hitting anything. The technology exists. Especially on DOO trains, the survival of the only staff member is extremely important for passenger safety in the event of a collision or...

I heard a presentation by Roger French that described a reversal of the PlusBus scheme where tickets were issued, presumably on the buses in Brighton, to cover travel on Thameslink to London. Could this work elsewhere with buses issuing Aztec coded tickets. Integrated public transport and all that!

Intrigued by the spellings used in this subforum, I actually looked it up and the thread title explains all. Here is a Gov.uk screenshot confirming the UK spelling.

We get regular cases on the prosecutions sub-forum of people who are in trouble with expired Railcards but where the online ticket seller had automatically ticked the Railcard box, even in cases where the ticket seller's app held the Railcard! Should there be a total moratorium on this autofill...

Interesting article in the Financial Times. Link here https://www.ft.com/content/16011adf-94a6-415b-8d3a-78f4cbbddc58 It unveils some interesting financial stats. The basic annual operating fee is £8.8 million, but there is another £22 million available based on performance. Wow! The FT...

There's a current thread where a passenger bought a wrong date ticket and was let through after a ticket gate rejected it. They then got challenged at the journey end and got hit with a penalty of £116. There really does need to be proper scrutiny of tickets that gates reject, to protect...

Today's (Monday 5 Feb) You and Yours programme will cover the complexities of rail ticket purchase.

Is Bursledon to Winchester via a change at Southampton a permitted route? It involves a degree of doubling back.

There's an article in today's Times concerning the "injustice" of the SJP. The article is mainly criticising the use of criminal prosecution for relatively minor failures to pay for a good or service. Something we'd probably agree with here! It includes an interesting table of SJ procedure...

I've been thrown off a westbound Elizabeth line service at Maidenhead due to s fatality at Reading. I'm on a bus to Bracknell. Can anyone tell if trains are running into Reading from there?

I'm booked to fly to Frankfurt tomorrow, on the way to Stuttgart, returning on Thursday. I've looked at the DB Navigator and there don't seem to be any decent connections, either direct or changing at Mannheim. Does anyone know what the basic cause of the disruption is? I'll l find it easier to...

Advance Single for Lincoln to Basingstoke today, bought on the Forum's ticket site. There was just one coupon for the ticket and schedule and it said 11.27 Lincoln to Kings Cross & connections. The problem came with the "& connections". The emailed itinerary, which the email told me I must...

This has probably been dismissed before, but this is a speculation thread so let the imagination rip. I'd prefer it to stick to the issues of space, segregation and new structures required and not bother too much with gloomy notions of "Border Force will never cooperate"

I travel in Germany fairly frequently, often using long distance trains. When I book online I have to decide whether to pay for a reserved seat. DB Navigator has a feature which predicts how busy the service is. I'd like to rely on that as a guide whether to reserve. However when I last...

I passed from National Rail to Tube at Tottenham Hale today. No problems for me but I saw the gate swallow a standard CCST. The passenger involved looked as if he was entirely new to TfL gatelines. I alerted the TfL staff to his predicament but didn't stay to see the outcome. But why would a TfL...

There's an article in today's Times about using waste underground heat to heat above-ground buildings. Extract below. The first part majors on an Austrian/German study about the waste heat created in underground car parks and focusses on Berlin. However, we all know what a big problem London's...

Arrived in Waterloo from Basingstoke and the guard told everyone to get out their tickets for the barriers and, for those with etickets, to make sure their phones were fully charged. The latter statement allowed at least a full 3 minutes for that phone charging to occur! As the train was...

I'm on an SWR train heading towards Fleet from Basingstoke. The air is absolutely full of flying leaves. Frost expected tonight so I imagine there'll be a lot more dropping onto the tracks in the next 24 hours.

I met my family for a meal before going to the Kew Christmas lights yesterday. One daughter (based in Walthamstow) had travelled there with son and nephew by rail and had been stopped at a ticket gate and told that the boys (both aged between 5 and 11) should have had child tickets. She had used...