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Thanks all for the interesting replies. It was often the case on a service departing PAD during a weekday evening (pre-hybrid working) that if there was standing room only, you'd only have to wait until Slough until seats became available. Makes a bit more sense as to why it was removed from the...

I used to travel to Heathrow by stopping at Slough, then (via the Elizabeth Line) via Hayes and Harlington to Heathrow. Now it seems GWR no longer stops at Slough. Just downloaded the GWR timetable and Slough is no longer listed. Not sure when or why this happened :s National Rail suggests I...

This is exactly the query I was going to post. Travelling Worcester - Paddington but all the usual tickets have been removed. Forcing it via Oxford (thanks to the posts above) shows a slightly pricier ticket which gives the Network Railcard discount. I'd use this ticket to travel via Birmingham...

It's an oddly persistent reality that planning office parties and pretending to care about your leaders' kids/pets/holidays actually seems to be weighted more heavily than those who do the heavy lifting. But this isn't the case everywhere, especially where leaders are switched on and aren't...

Reducing flexibility is not the way to attract people to the railways. There is nothing wrong with a paper ticket (whose battery can't run down/be stolen by the many street robbers in London nowadays) where the passenger has flexibility as to when they travel. Take the departure boards at...

They haven't thought this through... why would reducing the price of a single to 50% of a return, require the abolition of a return ticket? Why not reduce the single to 50% of the return AND keep the return option available, for the many rail travellers who use these tickets for the flexibility?

Thanks all, I did suspect the rail corporations would be sufficiently insulated, as if the compensation they get from the government for each strike day isn't enough.

Scenario: A passenger was supposed to travel on 3 Feb, but couldn't due to strikes, so travelled on 4th Feb instead. The train on 4 Feb ran on time. Yet the passenger was delayed by more than 2 hours from the intended travel on the strike day. The train journey in question can't be found in...

I live near the Cotswold Line and have a couple of times now found out belatedly about steam trains (the most recent being yesterday). There are crowds of people at stations and at various points where the line can be seen, but how do people find out about these? I visited the West Coast...

I'd defer to your sister's experience of the front lines. Those who are medically aware (as opposed to the characters in Whitehall/Downing St) are rightly remaining cautious. Strangely the same people who think they're too strong to be affected by covid are the same ones who are scared of...

Ridiculous decision, but if you paid for the railcard by card, file a claim with your credit card provider/bank. The cost to the taxpayer would have been zero. With mandatory agreement of TOCs (who are receiving £billions of our taxes at the moment) announce that all railcards are extended by 6...

What exactly is involved in prepping a train under the 36 hour/1500 mile interval?

Great work Ben! I wish the boards at my local station reflected similarly useful information at a glance.

Thanks, this is useful to see. Slightly disappointed that the final non-stop to Oxford departs at 1858, just two minutes before off peak begins, but I suppose that is the idea.

Yet on most journeys I've been on recently, the IETs have left Cotswolds stations on time and arrived early at the next station, having to then wait until their scheduled departure time. Sometimes the train manager will inform passengers as such and that it's not a delay. You're right that the...

I see GWR has barely improved journey times for the Cotswolds Line. 2hr journeys between WOS and PAD were a reality with the HSTs many years ago. About the time that our local MP was Mike Foster and put this issue in his manifesto... There are some journeys between these station which will...

Not sure that is reasonable, perhaps your post was tongue in cheek. I've claimed delay compensation in this scenario in addition to having the advance ticket accepted on the next reasonably available service.

On the Cotswold line where not all stations have full platforms (or at least, functioning platforms, since some have recently been extended) the announcements are patchy. Sometimes it's not in enough time for someone (especially elderly or injured) to negotiate walking through 5 carriages to...

Many thanks indeed for the offer. The issue was referred to TW after receiving the same response twice from GWR, whether that counts as full escalation within GWR I'm not sure. TW simply asked GWR to determine whether the compensation was calculated correctly and GWR repeated what they'd...

Thanks all. The complaint is with London Travelwatch but they simply contacted GWR who said they were correct to give only 50%. A previous claim was settled at 100% of the return ticket cost... Since there doesn't appear to be a clear answer here and GWR's website simply uses the terminology...