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There's a big gulf between making a mistake and going out of your way to beat the system. Yet it seems anyone making a mistake is deemed as potentially trying to beat the system and then it falls to that person to provide evidence that they are not. In my view, that blurs the lines between...

Is it my imagination or has the hunger to go after every ticketing anomaly increased dramatically now most TOCs are run by the Operator of Last Resort which is ultimately the government? I accept there are plenty of people who deliberately evade their fares by various means but the railway seems...

Tapping out at Stratford and changing to Greater Anglia for a fast train to Chelmsford will be quickest way to complete the eastern end of the journey. If you can buy the Stratford - Chelmsford ticket in advance, that will save having to buy a ticket at Stratford which means a trip down the main...

There's a lot at stake here. It's fine if you're able-bodied, have a regular ticket and the gates open for you. If you don't have a run-of-the-mill ticket then you may need assistance just based on your ticket type. Should someone who's never been to that station before know how to summon...

You'll get some good advice here but Stansted is a fairly regular issue where people expect Oyster/contactless to work and the gateline staff there are used to dealing with these issues. I suspect trying to buy another ticket will work against you a little as I'm sure it's something that's been...

Whilst it may make financial sense for Avanti, I do worry that employees of other TOCs will see this award and wonder why they aren't getting the same. I'll assume this is a significant settlement otherwise BBC news wouldn't be covering it.

There's some basic carrot and stick logic at play here, surely? There's three bases you can claim ... not guilty / might be guilty / guilty of (potentially) repeated evasion Asking someone to attend an interview under caution is likely to scare most into being honest. Now that it's clear that...

Fairly sure (not certain) F 1 and 1 F used to be on Essex County Council cars. I remember stories of them being sold for tidy sums but it's not something I have a great interest in.

Byelaw is appropriate English as far as I can see. Remember, when our American friends talk about routing, they are usually saying ROW-T-ING and not ROO-T-ING. Same, but different. It's all still apparently 'English'

Apologies. Epic brain fail on my part. I managed to look at 'next' week but I was busy trying to work out where I'd been last week at the time. On the plus-side, this has stopped me making any further silly mistakes planning 'this' week and explained quite quickly why I was having problems...

Manchester Piccadilly departing 0036

I found it in realtime trains no bother. Leaves Liverpool Lime Street at 2330, Manchester Piccadilly 0036, arrives airport 0057.

Looks like a typical lazy Reach effort. The pics look like stills from the Network Rail timelapse. But, I'm sure the 'trainee multimedia journalist' is yet to hone his craft to the point where we think he made an effort beyond a bit of copy/paste.

I see a few main groups who will benefit: People who currently drive into Chelmsford who can get to BP more easily People who currently use other stations nearby with infrequent services (Braintree branch- hourly, Hatfield Peverel- roughly half hourly) - some of whom may use Witham and...

Brutal Happy New Year from GA - no trains due to signalling fault between Ingatestone and Chelmsford and buses being summoned. Good job I'm not one of those conspiracy theorists.

My suspicion is that the new station will attract a lot of people from other stations, especially those using the Braintree branch and Hatfield Peverel currently seeking a more frequent service. Once the new north-east bypass opens (if it does) the proposition is quite attractive, with only a...

That really puts being turfed off the Jubilee line at North Greenwich when you want to be north of the river into perspective. I really don't see how Eurostar can do much else. Like everyone has commented, each train carries a significant number of passengers so any other mode of transport...

Interesting to see the views here. My mainly used gateline is Canary Wharf and I've noticed the issue for many years now (before Covid too) but it seems worse now. Canary Wharf is a wide gateline and the new side gates to the south of the station are generally well away from staff attention...

I'm quite surprised the station is finally a reality. We went to look at the first parts of the housing development around 2000. The plans at that stage clearly showed a station in the overall master-plan but no-one had a date to offer. Who knew it would be 25 years in the making? The new...

Thank you both. Seems perfectly reasonable now. Can I assume that RHTT will be class 69's in GEML land this year then? Traditionally I seem to remember them being 37's but that was probably pre-covid.