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Chiltern display/used to display route numbers.

They are. I asked them if they had a timetable for the services along the north coast and they'd run out. She couldn't stop apologising, and offered to let me know when the new stock arrived. :)

Individual station numbers aren't usually made public. From experience, I can tell you that when people do get hold of the number of a station, they start phoning and asking the ticket office staff for train times, journey planning, etc - when the staff have customers to be serving. Hence it's...

OT, but I'd be cautious about relying on the information on NRE - it was probably put there several years ago by your predecessors and is very possibly wildly outdated by now.

As far as I'm aware, apart from a few TOC-specific tickets, all ticketing sites sell the same tickets at the same prices. It doesn't matter if you go to thetrainline, qjump, Arriva Trains Wales, First TPE, Southeastern, National Rail, or any other site. The only difference is, TOCs don't...

Central are idiots. Not specifically about LM, just generally. Anyway, you can't buy on board because the stops are generally no more than two or three mins apart, and on most trains LM operate, there are only door controls in the cabs, so if the guard goes off issuing tickets, he gets one...

You might want to start here - http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/codes/ It will take you a while to go through all the stations though. If you email NR they might be able to give you a csv or excel file with all the addresses in them, in which case if you sorted the list alphabetically by...

This is exactly the problem - most staff currently working FT won't be able to afford to only work 10-15 hours a week. We could end up with the perverse situation where LM spend a fortune on severance pay, then spend more money recruiting new part-time staff. My suspicion is, at stations...

There are many many vanancies. They haven't been filling them, IMO, because this annoucement has long been in the pipeline. Why go to the hassle of the recruitment process if you're gonna get rid of them in a few months?

Jewellery Quarter, similarly - and not only disabled passengers but also able-bodied passengers often use the lifts there because the station is so far below street level. And Jewellery Quarter is going to be *completely* de-staffed!

Yes, but as we've already discussed, who says the primary role of station staff is to sell tickets? What about customer service? Information? Assisted travel? Help and information when delays/cancellations happen?

Very good point which I didn't think of... To be fair, that isn't the fault of the ticket office staff. It's well-known, and has been discussed on here on more than one occasion to my mind, that LM ticket office training is pretty dire. Exactly. Many passengers (myself included) like to...

It's very clear that this is the company trying to save as much money as possible to bump profits for the shareholders. Drivers have been striking for better conditions (some may argue a little overzealously but that's a different debate for a different day) and now LM can't cope with a little...

There was a suspect package in Walsall bus station - all buses were terminating on the outskirts of the town centre, and initally the station was closed. It seems later the cordon was reduced slightly so the station was reopened to trains from the south - but lines going north out of the station...

Sort out all the local lines in the West Midlands :) Electrify to Bromsgrove, extend 2 Longbridge terminators to Bromsgrove, new bay platform (allegedly already in the pipeline, keep eyes peeled for the pigs flying by). If we felt really bold, somehow build a new line to Rubery and extend the...

I agree too on this point - its inherent within the design of the Oyster system that it cannot cope with the sort of journeys mentioned above. To be honest, I don't really see why they won't let people add a One Day Travelcard onto their cards if they want to. Obviously the capping system is...

If you have a pass, as in a pre-loaded period bus pass or travelcard, you're okay. If you're just on a daily PAYG cap you need to touch in on every journey.

Indeed, and you also need to touch in if you board at one of the back doors on a bendy-bus. And I believe if you don't you're eligible for a penalty fare, even if you have a bus pass on your Oyster?

But that's what the new pink route validators are for - though I suppose for that particular example there's no suitable validator unless you get out at Canada Water...

As far as I've ever been able to tell, nothing is ever more expensive on Oyster. At worse, it's the same price as a paper ticket - often the same journey is cheaper.