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    stopped with fake stansted express ticket

    If this was in the last thirty days and you are telling the truth about being approached at Tottenham Hale station near the ticket machines, I would strongly reccommend that you do the following: 1) Write to Greater Anglia requesting CCTV footage of the incident, so you can show what happenned...
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    Bus Routes usually operated by stock with Wifi and USB Charging

    You mean, like, actual power sockets?
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    Bus Routes usually operated by stock with Wifi and USB Charging

    Thank you for your responses. They (buses with WiFi and USB charging) are more common than I thought. Locally in Southend, the very newest buses have both Wifi and USB charging, but of the two major companies serving the area (First and Arriva), only First have Wifi. Please do keep responding...
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    Bus Routes usually operated by stock with Wifi and USB Charging

    Which bus routes are normally operated using stock that has USB and Wifi? Essex 1 Shoeburyness - Thorpe Bay - Southend - Hadleigh - Rayleigh. Essex X30 Southend - Chelmsford - Stansted
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    National Routeing Guide update

    Using the 1995 timetable, I looked up Nottingham in the station index, and find the table for trains to Sheffield (55) and Derby (56). This gives me a route of Sheffield - Dronfield - Chesterfield, Alfreton, Langley Mill, Nottingham, Beeston, Attenbourgh, Long Eaton, Spondon and Derby. I have...
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    National Routeing Guide update

    Has anyone / does anyone actually check if these routes were reasonable routes in the days of British Rail?
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    Southern Delay Repay T&Cs - missed connections with separate tickets

    Delay Repay is in the passenger charter so it does form part of a contractual benefit.
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    Westcliff - Stratford Season Ticket

    I am trying to find out if a point-to-point Westcliff - Stratford London season ticket exists (NOT a Travelcard or ticket to Zones 3-6 etc). I think there is one, and c2c have quoted £84.80 for a weekly season ticket from Westcliff to Stratford. However, when I check brfares.com and Avantix...
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    2v Off Peak ticket restriction

    Whereabouts couldI find out about the lifting of ticket restrictions?
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    Station announcements download

    I used to think like that, but then I spent too long on the whatdotheyknow.com website and saw: = the number of obviously commercial companies who are using it to compile their own databases (do a search for tm44 air conditioning assessments); = the amount of non-public FoI requests made to...
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    Complaint To The Department for Transport About Fares Changes Proposed By Great Ang

    The DfT's response to my complaint can be viewed here.
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    Station announcements download

    Network Rail do provide them on a CD for those who make a Freedom of Information request for them. The key thing seems to be to ask for (and limit your request to) announcements from a specific station that is managed by Network Rail. As an example see this request which eventualy resulted...
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    Do signalpeople really refer to passengers as "chimps" and

    Well, there was the earlier post by Comutor.
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    Do signalpeople really refer to passengers as "chimps" and

    I wasn't really insulted by this person on facebook - the purpose of this thread was to find out if real signallers really did use such terms to refer to passengers. I could see them referring to passengers as bales of hay (as, at the end of the day we are just cargo being shunted around...
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    Do signalpeople really refer to passengers as "chimps" and

    I've self reported that comment. What I meant was:
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    Do signalpeople really refer to passengers as "chimps" and

    I am a member of a commutor group on facebook and have been posting various information about the usage of tickets from Hockley, Rochford, Southend Aiport, Prittlewell and Southend Victoria on the c2c line. There are some railway staff that participate in these group pouring scorn on the...
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    Witham - Ilford season tkt changeover to Witham - Stratford during crossrail works

    This is the same calculation as above, but using the ticket suggested by Indigo2: 365 (days of the year) - 35 (days already used) = 330 (days left to run) 3972 (cost of a Witham - Forest Gate season ticket) - 3456 (cost of the Witham - Ilford season ticket already held) = 516 (the...

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