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And if the passenger doesn't have a spare £100 or whatever the cost of a walk up ticket be? Then what?

Sub total of this thread seems pretty clear to me - don't bother using the railway.

There will be a total of 145 5-car class 720 units, once all are built. Could this large fleet of units be used to operate all services on both the GE (Norwich excluded) and the LTS out of Liverpool Street and Fenchurch Street respectively, thereby eliminating the class 357's? I suspect a...

It's certainly serviceable today - I've just seen it working with a pair of 465's on 1S40 13:59 Charing Cross to Sevenoaks.

OP would need to confirm, but I'd think it likely to be a southbound LNER service from Edinburgh to Newcastle or beyond - many of these are departing circa 10 mins earlier than usual at present due to the viaduct issues at Morpeth.

Travel by car / bus / coach / plane. Forget the railway. There'll almost certainly be some kind of industrial action over that period anyway.

This is what will stick in minds of passengers, what they will perceive as a total lack of interest and effort from the railway. A reduced service or a disrupted service, most people can accept when the weather is clearly severe. But no service, at all, north of Preston as another poster has...

How about "one way" and "return".

196's. 197's. 220's. 221's. 231's. 360's. 450's. 700's. 701's. 707's. 720's. 730's. 745's. 755's. 756's.

Don't ever get a job on the Tube pal. You'll never make it in to a station.

Heaven forbid - London Bridge, Clapham Junction, East Croydon to name a few, close the stations immediately! We can't have people walking down a platform whilst a train arrives or departs, clearly. What a load of utter tripe some of the comments in this thread are. Total crap.

The comments in this thread illustrate perfectly yet another reason why travelling by train just isn't a pleasant or even worthwhile experience any more. Platform staff on a power trip yelling at people who a lot of the time won't hear them anyway due to being "plugged in" in one way or...

At least National Express put the effort in. Unlike the hapless, useless, pathetic railway.

How pathetic and childish.

There are very few people who *need* a £15,000 car. For many it's primary purpose is not even a car, it's a status symbol *look what I've got*. Most who have one on the drive will never actually *own* it anyway; there'll lease it for several hundreds of pounds per month for a set period then...

The above is true of so many apparently responsible and intelligent adults in today's society unfortunately. I lost track of the amount of local and national news features I saw during both the Covid lockdowns and the past winter where people were pleading poverty, yet in the next clip you'd...

Apologies if the answer I'm looking for is buried in the detail somewhere (I've only time for a quick skim read at the minute); I can see a lot of reference to "TfL withdrawing from the Travelcard agreement". Does this imply outboundary and inboundary Travelcards will still be available as per...

The above perfectly demonstrates the wording is not fit for purpose. If I were in the OP's position I would have taken the 1903 without a second thought. If the intended meaning of the wording is that a passenger has to let their intended departure time come and go and only then seek out the...

The overtime "ban" thing has always puzzled me a bit - it's like it's an expectation that overtime has to be worked and it's frowned upon if it isn't. I've always done alright by turning up at start time, going home at finish time and any time other than that is my own so b*llocks to work...

Equally, "earliest" or "next soonest" could be interpreted as the first opportunity to travel once disruption to the intended train(s) is known about. E.g if at 1845 disruption to the intended 1906 is known about, the passenger could reasonably interpret that they can travel on the 1903 (thereby...