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Wellington and Cullompton were intermediate stations on the line from Taunton to Exeter closed in the Beeching era. There's been a proposal to reinstate them for some time as part of a general improvement of local services in the Exeter area. The term Devon Metro is sometimes used.
If you shop at Tesco with Clubcard, you accumulate Clubcard points with your shopping even if you have no real use for them. From that viewpoint, a Railcard becomes a reward for shopping at Tesco.
I thought that the Clubcard offer was that you redeem vouchers at a 2 to 1 ratio to get a one year railcard for nothing. So for a nominal £ 35 Railcard, you spend £ 17.50 in vouchers. The website where you buy the railcard is rather better at preserving a history of purchases than some others.
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...
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...
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.
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