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I'm pleased to report all was well this morning and they were able to sell it without problem

From a Thameslink station.... You know I think it was the general walk up fares screen. I could see the screen all the time.

That's the one..and he simply couldn't sell it to me.

I've just tried to buy an East Mids 3 in 7 Rover ticket from my local station. It's not valid from there but I will buy an additional ticket as required. The lovely man in the ticket office simply couldn't sell it to me. He tried codes, terms, and names in every combination. When he finally...

Hello! I am planning a trip which will be Paddington to Newbury, leaving on a weekday afternoon and returning at the weekend. While I might be able to get to Paddington before the evening peak, I can't guarantee it. I'm looking at the Off Peak Return which has restriction code FP. I am...

Arriva Beds and Herts Orbit ticket takes you from Stevenage & Letchworth, down to Welwyn and Waltham Abbey or west through Luton to Oxford, Aylesbury, and Reading via Leighton Buzzard or Hemel, and High Wycombe. £6.50 a day with versions available for weekly or monthly

I can walk to my local station, when the service is operating as it should, without consulting the timetable and wait no more than 15 mins for a quick train to London, and at the weekend the service is really very keenly priced. I can then come home when I want into the early hours.

I've had an All Lines Rover challenged as being not valid for travel by staff on XC and the old East Cosst. I've also had food refused on VT using the All Line Rover until I insisted politely and firmly. On the same trip I was shouted at by a woman on the gateline in Edinburgh. There is...

The toilets at Harpenden station were improved. Shame no one maintains them and they often now represent filth and despair.

I don't think it should. If we have it, it should be of a uniform quality to justify the fare. The InterCity example with freebies is good. There is an argument for getting rid in the NSE area because the product is so poor. However the accommodation is limited anyway so it won't do an awful...

Last year, I did a first class ALR (no railcard). Those silly 10am rules got in the way a few times. On a couple of days, I muddled myself and found myself about to make a trip that was not permitted because of the time, typically leaving London, on lightly loaded intercity services. Each...

I had a dreadful encounter with a misery guts at Kings Cross who INSISTED I couldn't use my ALR on a train to Newcastle in the evening 'peak'. He was so loud and rude to me that it attracted attention and caused an embarrassing scene. Fortunately, it also attracted the attention of some of his...

Old news done to death. Old rolling stock = lovely, comfort, sophisticated etc. New stock = backward, uncomfortable, crap. Next.

I live on the outskirts of Luton and have done for 10 years. I've never experienced any 'ethnicity' problems or clashes. I work with people from all backgrounds and wouldn't want it any other way. The inside of the Arndale is quite good but the outside is, indeed, hideous. The station is...

This is a real problem; when frustrated, passengers take it out on the wrong people. I saw someone absolutely blasting a driver on a TL station the other day. That poor driver just stood there and took it. When the passenger finally stopped, the driver said 'I appreciate everything you say...

Oh yes, I'd forgotten about that, so it sorts of makes sense even if it is a bit premature.

Related to this I had cause to use EMT for the first time since the changes today. I can see why people using the intermediate stations south of Leicester are annoyed. Gone is their nice old half-hourly frequency; now the two southbound trains run within 10 minutes of each other, and then...

I've often wondered, and the chat here makes me ask this, which people see as preferable? Would you prefer short trains with a lack of capacity but were fast, or longer slower trains, on the same route? Or how about a longer train with more capacity on a slightly longer route, and a shorter...

They will recover in time, including off-peak. I know that the dreadful 700s are hated on here, but to the average passenger they are 'new trains' or simply 'the trains', and come without quality judgement. If you have a choice between going to, say, London on a train that was a bit crap, or...

Rail enthusiasts being a bit 'away from mainstream' is simply a short and easy coding for the populous. For example, in 'Coronation Street', Roy Cropper is a rail enthusiast; to the audience he is 'a bit odd' and that works as a nice simple explanation forgetting that it is a crass...