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Journey: single from Cambridge to Paddington, any off-peak time (e.g. 12:00 today), no railcard, flexible times selected to prevent advance tickets being offered. TrainSplit suggests an itinerary of Cambridge to Liverpool Street (depart 12:03, arrive 13:15) and then Crossrail to Paddington...

I was looking at advance fares from deepest Cornwall to Cambridge in early October, and I noticed that GWR's site says that I must reserve a seat for the King's Cross to Cambridge leg of this journey. I've never seen seat reservations on Great Northern trains before. How new is this? I've always...

Today I've noticed some trains at Ely shown as calling at platforms "L" and "G", according to RealTimeTrains, which I've never seen before. What do these letters mean? Platform "L" on a Colchester to Peterborough service: https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:C52259/2023-02-10/detailed...

I'm looking at an Ely to Taunton super off-peak return ticket costing £104.60, outward travel next week Monday 10th, return Thursday 13th. I can buy this on booking sites (Great Northern or GWR) no problem at all. But I initially tried to plan the journey using National Rail Enquiries. It will...

At the moment it is generally accepted that the official connection times for crossing London are quite generous, for example Liverpool Street to Paddington is, I think, 55 minutes (made up of a 15 minute connection time in each station plus 25 minutes for the tube journey). Given that...

I've been playing around with the National Rail Enquiries journey planner for the sake of seeing what's available after the May timetable change, solely out of curiosity, and not for a specific journey that I want to make. I was looking at journeys from Ely to Brighton, at weekends (or bank...

This is kind of inspired by the "quickest route not permitted" thread that is ongoing at the moment. A journey I make semi-regularly is Sheffield to Ely. The valid routes for this journey involve getting from Sheffield to Peterborough (via one of many different allowed routes) and then direct...

There are lots of weekend closures on the line to King's Lynn at the moment due to work to extend the platforms to allow 8-car trains to be used all the way to King's Lynn. When this work is completed, does anybody know what the plan is for actually running 8-car trains on this line? I'm going...

I wish to purchase a flexible off-peak return for a long distance journey, and break my journey on the return leg. Is it possible to get seat reservations that take into account the break of journey, specifically for the second part of the journey after the break? When booking online, I could...

I renewed my annual season ticket this morning, and was handed one of the mini fold-up paper booklets with all the terms and conditions, map of the area, etc. I was then killing some time on my commute by reading through the whole booklet, and discovered something that I didn't know before...

A friend has recently renewed their annual season ticket and therefore needs to add the Gold Card discount to their Oyster card again. Previously both of us have only ever done this by finding a TfL staff member near the tube ticket machines at a main London Terminal. But their next few...

According to both National Rail Enquiries and BRFares there is an £8.60 railcard discounted Greater Anglia only weekend super-off-peak day return from Cambridge to London. After much frustration trying and failing to buy this from various websites where I have an account, I've come to...

I'd never have considered that King's Cross to Ely via Peterborough would be a valid route, and a quick attempt to check the routeing guide seems to back this up (notwithstanding any mistakes I might have made!) But National Rail Enquiries seems quite happy to offer this as a valid route at...

I commuted on http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/W60998/2018/05/30 this morning. It was terminated at Cambridge (platform 7) instead of continuing to London. I'm curious as to why RealTimeTrains is showing it as platform G rather than platform 7. Does anybody know what the "G" means and/or...

I'm playing around with fares from Cambridge to various places in Cornwall. I've not really got any specific dates or places in mind, just seeing what potential travel costs to various places might be. For the purposes of this thread, I'm only looking at off-peak returns, not advances. I'm using...

Last month, I used my Oyster Card (twice) for the first time in at least five years. Since the balance was low and I don't have auto top-up, I did an online top-up before travelling, to collect as I tapped in for the journey. The money was taken from my credit card, but the top-up wasn't applied...

I'm looking at advance tickets from Ely to "somewhere in Cornwall" - for the sake of argument and simplicity lets say Penzance, but the problem I'm about to describe occurs with multiple different destinations, so is not Penzance-specific. These are for a Saturday "sometime in August" - again...

I have just renewed an annual season ticket between Ely and Cambridge, using a "special" web link on the Great Northern website which applies a 10% discount to the standard price, as part of an employee travel for work discount scheme. The terms of this scheme clearly state that any annual...

Is an Annual Gold Card valid for getting a discount on Cambridge to Ely fares when using CrossCountry? National Rail Enquiries suggests that I don't get a discounted fare on this route when using CrossCountry services, but I do get the discount for other operators. I initially wondered if...

I'm looking at times from Kew Bridge to Waterloo for a journey a week on Saturday (25th March) between at approximately 4-6pm. According to National Rail Enquiries, trains are half-hourly at xx16 and xx46. According to the TfL journey planner, trains are half-hourly at xx26 and xx56. I...