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Perhaps they should have done a "soft launch" quietly releasing tickets a week or so before what seems to have been a media and publicity blitz instead of doing it all on the same day. ( although see my earlier post on page 2, they unofficially accidentally sort of did this !)

Last week the link to what was then a blank page saying "buy tickets here" came up for half a day on the alsthom website . Guess they were testing it. Luckily I bookmarked it and yesterday the blank page became live and I grabbed two tickets ! I checked at 8am this morning and the page was...

Oops, yes sorry it was a mistake, that was the second class fare, I did pay £70, just looked up credit card statement, sorry ! I will correct my original post, but availability was way better

Just come across this as well. A few weeks ago I booked a peak Advance First class ticket from Bristol to London two days beforehand and it cost me (corrected from earlier, sorry!) about £70 , now all the advance tickets for weeks ahead at many times seem to have vanished and the price for the...

It isn't tickets being checked that frustrates me, it is that almost every time I have witnessed people not having a ticket or not having the correct ticket, there have been no consequences. Invariably the people concerned look "tougher" or "prettier" than the ticket inspector and they get let...

But if one had a single non railcard ticket for the full journey before 10am how would this be viewed as short faring ?

I made my journey but no-one checked tickets anyway ! By the way, re st pancras, I regularly use Folkestone to Bristol tickets and they never work the barrier at st pancras despite being valid on journey planners. Always have to have manual "check".

:) thank you

Apologies if this has been asked before. I can't find it in a search. Journey is from A to C via B. The return fares A to C return and B to C return are almost identical so for the return journey later I want my ticket to be from A to C return. Train leaves A at 0930 then change trains at B...

No, no deer or foxes in here but just noticed ( 0810 29th May ) a 30 second long patch of very severe hunting ( side to side movement ) about five minutes into tunnel going westbound from Ebbsfleet towards Stratford. Don't think it is the coach ( South Eastern Javelin) as ride has been fine all...

Re stopping Bristol trains, it isn't just the actual "speed" it is the "within the carriage" issues of the stop itself. Leaving paddington, having nicely settled into a quiet part of the train to find five minutes later a crowd of people getting on turning what had been your carefully chosen bit...

As a very regular user of trains between Bristol and London who has already lost the "non stop" trains we briefly had before covid, I am fed up enough with nearly every train to Bristol stopping at Reading, Didcot , Swindon, Chippenham, Bath ..and to add Old Oak to that .. Let alone the issue of...

Re making more money ... If they had some sort of system to check tickets at the pier head before boarding the train, or at Esplanade on getting off it, I am sure it would pay for itself. Perhaps they could sell tickets at Portsmouth harbour as there is no time on arrival from ferry before...

Local press now reporting the line is to revert to an hourly service from tomorrow, Thursday 29th Feb "Until further notice" using only one out of the five trains.Island echo. Island line to run hourly service. The article says this is to save the trains for the summer ! Presumably reading the...

Bit of an odd ball question here. I am a frequent user of the GWR mainline, HS1, the South Western mainline and South Eastern. A few years ago when I used the Caledonian sleeper for the first time, I noticed a particular "whirring" type noise from the ? Track ? Wheels as it was travelling at...

I thought this would be a high up well used thread. Is there perhaps another post I missed ? Does anyone know what has caused the flooding ? An easily fixed burst pipe or something more long term and difficult to fix ?

What's the point of buying a ticket or for that matter having on train ticket checks at all, if all that happens when you don't buy one is usually not much. Having said that though, this evening I alighted at Folkestone west ( ungated ) to find about ten ticket inspectors and one policeman...

Yet again, a "fault with the signalling system in the Southall area" is causing issues today.

It certainly feels like you are on a commuter line when you travel to Bristol ; or as it invariably is, to Reading Didcot Swindon Chippenham Bath and finally Bristol. For a brief few weeks pre covid we got those nice non stop trains but it wasn't to last. Where did the stock that was used for...

Yes that would be a shame to lose our"secret" cheap fare that only comes up if you enter " via Eastbourne" or similar into search engine. E.g. Ramsgate to Portsmouth day return fare £86.40 but " via Barnham" is £25.80 but don't tell anyone .. Oops. Both road and rail on this route are terrible...