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I'm planning to make this journey on Sunday ahead of a meeting in the Warminster area on Monday morning. Due to GWR's strike action decisions, it's not possible to simply change at Westbury, as no long distance trains are running. I've worked out the best option is to get a Cross Country to...

Had the rounder been running still the best ticket option by far would have been Ebbsfleet-Gravesend or vice-versa, but going the long way round, which was valid as long as you never got off en route. It was a RailUK forum meet at least once back in the day.

Funnily enough I have a pending Delay Repay claim for 1 journey with three tickets: I did Reading-Taunton last Sunday splitting at Newbury and Castle Cary. The service was 15-30 minutes late until CLC then 30 at Taunton, so claimed on 30-59 minutes, but yes I uploaded all 3 tickets into the same...

I'll see if I can contact SE about the issue first, it definitely wasn't always an issue as I've used Taunton-Crayford advances plenty before, and they're a lot cheaper than an Advance to/from Paddington and Oyster the remainder (to the point that current Paddington Advances are only slightly...

Not according to the Mixing Deck with the dates below: (Image of GWR Mixing Deck with Taunton-Crayford return journey programmed in for 20th Dec 2023 and 3rd Jan 2024)

I'm trying to book travel in December and January with GWR at the moment, but for some reason even dates 2 months away are not offering any advance tickets (not even showing a price option greyed out). Is there something going on that I'm not aware of regarding a change in policy, or something...

Depends on the person's walking speed. I for example could do it in about 30-35 mins, but I imagine elderly person of course would never contemplate it, although 48 minutes is quicker if you've just missed a bus that's an hourly frequency. The two stations in question get a few direct services...

And there's a model of GWR ticket machines (it's not the classic ticket machine style) which actually have a cursor on the screen that are really hard to use, to the point that even selecting a popular destination to buy there and then is a challenge, let alone typing on a keyboard of any style.

I find the biggest problem is touch sensitivity (not sensitive enough), not the actual keyboard layout.

The definition of the UK railway yes ;)

With finances in dire straits it would not be surprising if something was announced that appeared good on the surface but deep down is actually more expensive than the status quo.

Thanks for the correction. Has the remit of regulated fares changed in the past, as I'm sure it used to be only season tickets that were decided this way?

My understanding is anything that's not a season ticket.

Something I seem to have noticed is that at a number of London Terminals, ticket barriers seem to be rejecting a greater proportion of tickets/passes/etc., which leads to greater crowds at the barriers and general frustration, especially if one's own ticket is affected. I know some stations have...

As alluded to in the title, I'm flying out from Bristol Airport at 06:10 on the 22nd June next month, and scheduled to return at 15:25 on the 29th June 2022. In terms of getting there by train, I'm planning to get the final train from Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads at 23:32 on the 21st June...

A couple of front pages tomorrow have this story on them somewhere, including The Metro as a main headline: https://www.tomorrowspapers.co.uk/

This seems to now have made the news today, if it's the same thing: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51077807 (also present on other newspaper websites). The BBC also has the Didcot split as one of its examples, which is the one I got familiar with while a Bath student as it happens.

On a weekday later this month I'm considering doing a roam on services with "aspects of interest" I haven't done before, but need some help with the best fare deals to do this. The itinerary so far is as follows: 1) Maidstone to Tonbridge on 09:28 service 2) Tonbridge to Ashford on 10:11...

The East and West station machines are this model, but the Barracks is a different model of a smaller size, but as modern in design and capability.

With all honesty I didn't check that, however the number of people queuing at the machine suggested either it was closed or a long queue at an open kiosk (a London train was imminent). Had I not had the issue in the past which I linked in my last post I probably would have walked past the East...