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    Four bidders for Elizabeth line operations from May 2025 announced

    Probably because the EL contract involves maintenance of the track, signalling, and tunnel between Old Oak Common & Abbey Wood / Stratford. Sumitomo does railway infrastructure construction and maintenance in east Asia, North America, and India. Same reason Amey (and Atkins on DLR) are involved...
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    Who sets the fare?

    Setting aside the excellent exploration of this particular journey's options, I'd just like to, highlight this chain of glorious incompetence by 'the railway', and state my high respect to all on this thread for not stooping to this low-hanging fruit and instead answering the OP's question...
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    Which train companies allow me to buy tickets at a booking office using a company Cheque?

    I can find references to acceptance of company cheques by the following train operating companies. All imply that a company cheque can be accepted at any staffed ticket office, with conditions. Generally the 'old rules' for accepting a company cheque still apply, with ticket offices accepting...
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    National Express Group to be renamed "Mobico Group"

    This has huge Consignia vibes.
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    Go North East

    I don't think the marketing spend is the problem here. It's spit in a bucket compared to other costs. Doesn't help, sure, but equally if no-one had put any effort in on attracting people on to buses, then that would have been a much bigger sign of giving up. I would suspect that Martijn Gilbert...
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    Restriction Code 1A: Chelmsford to Heathrow

    Going to second that opinion of "wrong ticket sold", no idea why they thought that would be the appropriate ticket. It would have been valid via the Piccadilly line, but not the Elizabeth line. The natural temptation is to advise that the Off Peak Return from Chelmsford to "Heathrow Rail"...
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    TfL Go bus times not working

    According to TfL, there is a significant outage with the Countdown service since this morning (@TfL have been replying to queries all day on Twitter). Apparently, there was a power cut affecting one of the data centres that delivers the Countdown service. I'm seeing some live departures on...
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    Sunak's DfT Ministerial Team

    There's a clear shift to ensuring competence rather than stardom in this re-shuffle for DfT. It's heartening to see Baroness Vere remain in post for local transport (i.e. buses and taxis), aviation and maritime affairs, and significant experience brought to the top job - Huw Merriman has been a...
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    £2 Price Cap on fares in England - Now extended beyond October 2023

    Of course, this does depend on the Treasury not withdrawing the national funding for the voluntary scheme in the mini-budget next month.
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    Ticket machines and migraines

    Hi Dave, the ticket machine isn't something you're looking at constantly, but it's certainly a few minutes at a time, quite regularly. Only you can tell what is going to be a trigger for you, but this would certainly be a discussion to be had with occupational health at any of the...
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    What make/model is the front camera in National Express coaches?

    If I'm not mistaken they're users of Lytx Drivecams.
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    Where is the operation boundary of London Taxis?

    Licenced taxis (not minicabs or private hire vehicles), can legally ply for hire - i.e. accept a walk-up fare - anywhere they are licenced. All-London licencees, denoted by their green licence badges (not the colour of their taxi) may ply for hire anywhere within Greater London. They are not...
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    Lewes Bus Station closes on 16th September

    I can only be thoroughly incensed by the race-to-the-bottom approach advocated here. Lewes has gone from having a practical, capacious covered bus station, with an excellent community café, to some exposed stretch of pavement that you can't easily get a powered wheelchair or twin buggy along...
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    Penzance to Totnes / Torquay Fare Anomaly?

    This is a reflection of there being generally higher fares east of Totnes and cheaper fares east of Newton Abbot. This reflects a few things - the particular socioeconomics of southeast Devon, the needs of the Plymouth commuter market, and competition with the Falcon and other Stagecoach bus...
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    KeyGo not charging the cheapest option

    Fundamentally a day return from Bognor to Gatwick isn't valid via Chichester, and the system isn't telepathic, nor merrily doing a TrainSplit for every keyGo customer (much as that would be A Good Thing). keyGo won't split a fare for it, but if you had tapped out at Barnham and tapped back in...
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    Are concessionary pass holders 'entitled freeloaders'?

    So, the two main issues at hand are that: Some people are not personally entitled to use a concessionary pass to obtain free travel, but are either using someone else's (fraud) or by travelling as a companion to a companion passholder (not fraud), and, Some people are rude (true), and some of...
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    Which ferry crossings can you buy with a train ticket?

    Torpoint Ferry using PlusBus (Plymouth). Sandbanks Chain Ferry using a Bournemouth to Swanage rail bus-link add-on.
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    Offer for Go Ahead Group

    Go-Ahead's shareholders have accepted the joint offer made by Kinetic & Globalvia this afternoon. 1450p per share, plus a 100p special dividend. Result of Meeting Next moves in October, pending anything unexpected.
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    KeyGo - smart tap/go ticketing

    100% AGREE! God forbid you would be an actual paying customer... another classic example of the railway choosing to treat it's fare-paying passengers as a complete inconvenience. This is indicative of a world where the people operating the railway are not beholden to the people using it...
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    Are concessionary pass holders 'entitled freeloaders'?

    Are concessionary pass holders 'entitled freeloaders'? No. We, as a country, have made a decision that free local public transport is essential after 65+n years, and that the cost of providing said free transport is of overall greater benefit to society than what it costs. This is likely still...

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