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Great read, thanks for taking the time and trouble to write and post. I can certainly empathise regarding the forgetting-to-lock-front-door and phone-dropping-out-of-pocket episodes. :lol:

Honestly, it's not worth throwing toys out of the pram for. Others have made exactly the point I am making - that it's not wise to publicise everything on a forum. Good luck to them for knowing some fares "tricks" - I'm not annoyed or envious because they won't say. The best way to get...

The purpose of my post was as a hint to others who may know, that it is not wise to repeat it here in response to this topic (or on any forum, for that matter), since there is a serious risk that the fare will be withdrawn if it attracts publicity. Indeed, following my post, I have been...

Break of journey is allowed on all international full-fare tickets. But this (Budapest - Salzburg) 4-day ticket is a special fare (through the bilateral agreement between MAV and OeBB) with special rules. Initially, it didn't allow break of journey, but now it does. Another similar ticket...

Yes, there are some. In Germany, for example, I do believe that starting short and ending early on advance tickets is not against the rules. Not encouraged, but not banned, I believe. I have done it a couple of times without any problem. (And DB staff are pretty rigorous about checking tickets...

The Birmingham - Redditch service used to be a Paytrain service before Cross-City days. There were only a handful of trains a day, including a morning Inter-City service from Gloucester - Leeds which I believe stopped at Barnt Green, Northfield, King's Norton and Bournville. A wizened old bat...

Yep, me too, for exactly those reasons.

I trust that in such an instance, the Fire Brigade would send the necessary invoice for the unwarranted call-out to the station operator, and that the latter would be hauled over the coals for taking up the Fire Brigade's time and resources, when a genuine emergency could have required their...

It's also generally significantly cheaper than long-distance train travel, too, with a few exceptions (the €49 London - Germany DB fares, for example).

The easy question first - the Paris to Venice sleeper does not stop at Peschiera del Garda; it runs non-stop between Brescia and Verona. Going via Switzerland obviously takes longer, and will be more expensive. An alternative route to Verona would be to travel to Munich (via Paris or Brussels)...

I did this journey several times last year - mainly in the other direction. I was using an Inter-Rail pass, so the fares scenario is different. The quickest way is London - Paris on Eurostar, and then the night train to Rome. If you can get good advance fares, this is probably also the...

That's hardly the issue - clearly other people see there's a major communications problem.

Why is it so difficult to communicate these things with passengers? I was on a local train on the single line between Freilassing and Landshut in Bavaria this week. When we stopped at one station, the driver immediately informed passengers that there would be a delay of about 5 minutes while we...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think they split at Northampton. I know that the 12 car rush-hour train I was on out of Euston a couple of months ago left 8 cars at Northampton. To the OP: I'm sure you'll find one of the more enlightened TOCs (Chiltern?) will be accommodating, if you tell them...

International tickets are still, generally, long form. I think this is CIV standard - even on DB online tickets, the top portion is in this format.

Shame you couldn't overnight in Verona rather than Milan - I guess timetabling doesn't allow it. Verona's great for an evening walkabout. That's a great day (from Verona onwards :D). Budapest - if you want a few beers on the cheap in the tourist area, I strongly recommend the Captain Cook...

Beetroot risotto is a bit weird, to say the least. It's the sort of thing you might see on the menu at an above-average Roman trattoria, but it (risotto in general) is a difficult dish to do well, and at least you know they will cook it properly. How it tastes coming out of a packet - boiled...

From the BBC. I must admit, I would have thought more than 25% of workers spend over half-an-hour to get to work. I guess the fact that now quite a few people work from home skews the distribution somewhat.

I know this has been debated before, but just run this by me. If you destroyed the voucher, what happens? Obviously, Northern is trying to save money, putting an unfair onus on the passenger to "prove" where they have boarded. The honest fare-paying passenger shouldn't have to prove anything...

Railjets have a children's cinema.