Recent content by MarlowDonkey

If you wanted Liverpool Street as well, presumably the destination would have to be London U1.

They don't know about journeys taken, only tickets purchased. Hence the advice not to reply. I don't think there is a central database of railcards. Some sellers of these are better at retaining historic records than others. Ticket sellers have no direct knowledge of railcards held if it wasn't...

Purchase of a ticket from A to B and from C to D probably within minutes of one another would be fairly easy to spot, particularly if it was nearly every day. There are also pairs of stations such as Wembley Stadium and Marylebone where anyone making the trips legitimately would not purchase on...

It can also include those on flexible tickets being forced to make arbitrary reservations and then travelling at another time.

I don't know whether GTR and TfL share data, but the history of contactless travel beyond Finsbury Park could confirm or otherwise the narrative.

I suppose that raises the question as to how much extra expense has been caused by building it to 400 km/h standards instead of say 250 km/h.

As far as I am aware the forum's ticketing site at https://tickets.railforums.co.uk/ doesn't remember railcards. If I want to see the applicable discounted prices, I have to select the type from a long list.

They are using the route of the Great Central's London extension and related projects up to a point For example the Old Oak Common to Ruislip section is underneath the GWR's New North main line. I think here and there, they are actually using the old GCR alignment. The London extension mostly...

It was a design feature of that line (mostly Great Western & Great Central joint) that the platforms were on loops, Similar designs to Bicester were at Beaconsfield, Gerrards Cross, Denham, West Ruislip, South Ruislip and Wembley Stadium. There were also platform loops at Prince Risborough and...

Several of the stations north of Finchley Road on the Jubilee (previously Bakerloo) were rebuilt in the 1930s Holden art-deco style. I believe this was to facilitate having the Bakerloo (slow lines) inside the Metropolitan (fast lines). Stations like Neasden and Willesden Green that orginally...

Barrow in Furness station was rebuilt in the style of 1960s southern WCML. That was repair of war damage, but I think was 1950s rather than 1960s.

They didn't confiscate the Bath to Bristol ticket which was invalid because of the expired railcard, but still operated the gates at Bristol. This left the Bath to Birmingham ticket sold on the train not tagged by a barrier.

I think FGW/GWR also used to offer this as well. It was ideal for a weekend travelling out Friday and back Sunday. It would have been priced between a Super Off peak Return and Advances both ways.

Except it would have been £ 50 plus Anytime cost of Bath to Bristol for prompt payment.

The wording on the tickets is deceptive. London Terminals means both Kings Cross and Liverpool Street in the context of Cambridge, but Greater Anglia only impliies Liverpool Street only without saying that explicitly as they don't operate trains to Kings Cross. On the other side of London...