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I wonder why the station announcers weren't used - no longer available? I find the long gap before the station name irritating, and I'm not sure I need to be welcomed to each lovely place along the way. Also the screens are like an explosion in a point size factory, if you're lucky to get to the...

I agree with that, but see the few hours to undo a purchase more to do with fixing buying the wrong thing than changing my mind about the journey. A few hours is perhaps more than necessary to achieve that

Along with SWR's new voice we have new announcements that we must have a ticket (etc., etc.) and also that violence towards staff won't be tolerated. Well, of course - and if that stops one assault let's have it. But does it? It's not just conditioning us to ignore anything recorded at least, I...

It's a while ago now, but I thought that Oyster Extension Permits were products added to the card itself, and were available from ticket machines. Also, I don't think they were essential to the fare calculation, they were just something that could be inspected on the train. Were there paper...

Yes, that would work. From some places I see fares explicitly to St P via Thameslink but London Thameslink, a "Maltese Cross" (but not in this case) or anything valid in zone 1 would be fine. Yes! The fake Underground stations and the fake fake search groups. I think 338 and the other zone 1...

338 is the fake CRS for Underground zone 1 that it used to be possible to use at nationalrail.co.uk. I think these codes were created by SilverRail and not anybody at RDG or its ancestors, as they are not in any official data sources

I wasn't clear, my objection is to the clunky phrasing of it, written by people who should do better than that. But also if you are in the middle, thanks to the design of the train half the people won't find you so it seems an odd thing to ask you to stress as it promises something you'll be...

And everybody presses the button anyway! Exactly, I'm all for simple measures that keep us safer, but if they really don't the legal arse-covering didn't really work. I think there is also a difference between auto announcements and humans. Cut back the autos a bit - nothing about fares and...

It's because nationalrail.co.uk offers 21 minutes, I think it is, and nobody ever got fired for having the same results as NRE

... with the effect that you can only buy your rail part of the journey to/from a station with a PlusBus fare. It seems - I asked - that this is intentional, there are some stations in an area where they might not want PlusBus to be offered. I think "they" in this case means the bus operators

With the benefit of not being caught up in it - it was "only" a day and a bit. It's hard to know what they can do about that. I think obvious mitigations are looking at how both bores of the Thames tunnel were affected at the same time, and possibly maintaining route knowledge for Ashford, as...

That takes me back! Pure NSE red everywhere. Not forgetting the short era when platforms 2 and 3 had gone, but both islands remained. The display on platform 2 showed something like "This platform is closed", well, there's no track... Then the island went and the formation was slewed across...

It's: Tuesday 12/12/2023: 2pm - 8pm Saturday 16/12/2023: 11am - 4pm Thursday 11/01/2024: 2pm - 8pm It's in the old southern ticket hall, so a good opportunity to have look at that if nothing else...

For this reason I really think that it should have "tube" mode. As transfer usually means you're not covered by the fare, a TIS could be tempted to end your fare before that link, and leave you unpaid for the last bit

Plenty of apps have real-time for the Underground

I've seen this happen when the "association" between the two parts of the train is missing from the timetable data, so they appear like two completely separate trains, and if the time between the parts arriving and departing is less than the interchange time required at Ashford - 5 minutes -...

I think the northern running tunnel has UK networks and the southern has French, so on the way to France in normal operation you shouldn't be roaming yet

Absolutely, we talked about this personality cult a while ago. They're all at it... And I think ads with an asterisk always make the supplier look shifty

I love the southern end of the Northern line, especially Clapham South, Balham and - once downstairs! - Morden. Heathrow Terminal 4 hasn't had a mention yet, so of its time. Gants Hill of course, and Southwark. If we stretch to the rest of TfL - Canary Wharf EL. Ah, yes! And the seventies...

No, just that all reservable legs should be reserved, whether the main or connecting TOC for that fare. The question was because a fare had been sold with a connecting TOC reservation but nothing on the main one, between SWR and GA I think. Asking to clarify the rules - in this case all or main...