Recent content by 185143

Fair. That's true on all counts. Vaping on a train is at worst likely to be met with a telling off by the traincrew, but far more likely to be accepted as common practice. Whereas vaping on an aircraft is highly likely to see Police attention on arrival.

In fairness, neither do the Anglo-Scottish TOCs, with the exception of TPE. And as for the comment below yours about misbehaving, people clearly do get arrested on the railway for misbehaving or else the British Transport Police wouldn't have cause to exist.

I've boarded at Newton le Willows a few times, never been alone in doing so. Pretty much all railway staff or airline staff though!

Can definitely make that work, cheers.

Any idea which service? I'm heading that way shortly and will be hoping to get it

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Much appreciated. That's the only 701 I've had, so I'll give it a miss.

Any passenger 701s running today?

Therein lies your answer. The First Bus app just displayed a regular QR code compatible with bus driver's ticket machines.

Oh for f... I used one bought from the FirstBus app once. A Northern guard tried to scan it, which obviously didn't work. Had no issues accepting it once he'd seen what it actually was. Everyone else just looked at it and moved on without batting an eyelid.

Had a wierd one today. I'm on nights, hence "today". I was on a steam charter on the Chat Moss line heading out of Liverpool, casually sat in a Mk1 enjoying a few beers I'd brought on with me. I was hoping to use my Saveaway to Huyton on the charter, presumably for the novelty factor as I'm not...

Possibly, as I did arrive late at night.

I've kind of had that happen. Booked a single room with shared facilities, was upgraded to a double en suite. The bog door jammed shut after I'd used it (thankfully!) And neither me nor a maintenance guy who reception sent up could open it again. I was told the facilities were on the floor...

Not a rail offer admittedly, so I hope this is allowed. Stena Line are doing foot passenger singles for £10 on the Irish Sea routes until the end of the year if you book by the 19th March. Only exclusions I could see are the night Liverpool-Belfast crossings.

I used HEX the only time I've flown out of Heathrow. I'd just missed a CrossRail train, the next one wasn't for 25 minutes so I got the Heathrow Express. Expensive, especially given I had a Travelcard, but I was in the airside 'Spoons with a beer in my hand 40 minutes later. It's definitely a...