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:-) thanks yes - they made it - a lot of mixed messaging (Lumo website saying it would terminate at Newcastle contradicted the twitter feed saying it would go through to Edinburgh). All credit to all involved for getting it there.

A friend is booked on the 1S97 14:48 King’s Cross to Edinburgh service. Looking at real train times it’s formed from the 1E82 9:24 from Edinburgh, but can’t see if it’s departed and the 14:48 will be delayed? Anyone know?

Would this be valid on the rail replacement bus from Honor Oak? Off tangent but how reliable is the replacement bus late Sunday afternoon ?

Yes, same day 1699716973 Ah good to know thanks! 1699717080 ach there’s no Forest hill London Bridge trains on the Sundays I’m looking at, so stuck with the Catford route

We're a family of four going from Catford to Cambridge one weekend shortly, via Backfriars (various reasons need to avoid the underground). The two kids have zipcards and we have a family railcard. It looks like the cheapest way is for the kids to go free between Catford and Blackfriars and...

Thank you all for helpful advice - have used delay repay since the '90s in various forms but never for more than one operator! LNER have emailed me to confirm three of the four claims have been forwarded to TPE, so a phonemail may be in order. Just noticed the link above to...

I travelled from King's Cross to Malton on 27 May, depart KGX 11:00 arrive York 12:52 (LNER); depart York 13:04 arrive Malton 13:28 (TPE). Four advance singles, family railcard, bought from LNER. The 13:04 TPE from York to Malton was cancelled, so we got the 14:03 which was two minutes late...

Oh I know all that; and this thread has answers my original question that there is little to no co-ordination. For instance in an ideal world someone could have said to southern “hi, we see you’re running a full service on Sunday but a half hourly one on Saturday; any chance you could run a...

Agree that is better than the Saturday service which was two trains an hour! So why did they just run two an hour on Saturday? 1659957157 I just wondered if the fragmented system is why the service was sub-optimal. It’s also weird that other posters say the services was four per hour on...

I know they could , but why didn’t they? Is it purely politics in the interaction between TfL/DfT?

Appreciate this is a first world London centric thread. But with the London overground suspensions today south of new cross to Croydon, could someone somewhere have persuaded southern to run more trains? Northbound they were 30 mins intervals with five coaches and people not getting on north...

I seem to remember reading mk3 air con would start to become ineffective when the outside temp went above around 30 degrees. 158 air con is legendary for its ineffectiveness due to the refrigerants… What is the operating max temp for modern rolling stock in the UK? And will it cope with...

The biggest issue for me was space with very young ones still in pushchairs - particularly busy services. Even our compact pushchair had to be on occasion left in vestibules (because of lack of room) or precariously balanced. Second, and it's better these days! - is clean toilets. Once they're...

Hi I've done a search but can't find anything - before Covid, SWT/South Western seemed to be replacing a load of their class 455s with newer classes. Southern (particularly on the Peckham Rye / Tulse Hill routes are almost 455s apart from occasional 377s. What is the longevity of Southern's...

Yup, that thought sprung to mind and after a bit of digging it is indeed Southern. I'll just have to write to them.

Does anyone know who operates the 'excess fares' office by platform 15 at London Bridge? I bought my annual season ticket there in June 2019, but Southern and SouthEastern ticket offices can't find my details on their system (and so can't give me a refund / changeover)...

I bought it at London Bridge (the Excess Fares window by platform 15). Southern can't find it on their systems, so i'm presuming it's SouthEastern

Hm. I have an annual season ticket from East Dulwich (EDW) to London Bridge (LBG) expiring 3 June. My work stopped me from travelling on 16 March, and I asked for a refund from EDW station on that day...but they couldn't process and asked me to go to London Bridge (where I bought it from in...

Over the last 20 years or so tickets have become available in October for Christmas travel. This year, the LNER website throws up a box saying tickets are not yet available for travel on selected dates (in this case, 24 and 27 December Edinburgh-London). My resourceful sister then went to the...

The screens on the SouthEastern / Thameslink side on the lower concourse only show information for those platforms (1-10?) and ditto on the Southern side (platforms 11-15). For instance if you come off a train to/from Charing Cross and want a Southern service to Forest Hill, you have to do a...