Recent content by MichaelAMW

I haven't read everything here but just to say I bought a carnet of billets classiques from the buffet car on Eurostar the weekend before last. Apologies if someone has already mentioned they are still available via there.

It's not "£30+", it's about £28, as you have already said. You can save money by getting an Advance ticket for a significantly long time after you're due to land, or try to get a Northern 'on the day' Advance, as has been mentioned. In your position, I would note that we're talking about...

What exactly do you want to know here? You've not really specified anything.

The difference with the airlines is that there is an outgoing passport check at St Pancras, which is when the info has always been collected. The airlines collect it and provide it to the authorities as there isn't a passport check in the same way, except at the gate for your flight. It ought to...

It's still available here: https://www.networkrail.co.uk/running-the-railway/the-timetable/electronic-national-rail-timetable/

So, have I got this right: -- LNER have claimed that single-leg pricing was a success, but provided no evidence to support this claim -- Walk-up rail travel on those particular journeys has been transported back to 1950, with the added factors that tickets that used to be valid three days are...

One of my thoughts, although I realise I don't have all the detail, is to ask why an individual TOC doesn't just get on and negotiate with the ASLEF people at that TOC, given what you say about a resolution "long ago." Is the answer simply that the DfT have told the TOCs, through RDG, that this...

You had an NCR 51 ticket from Milton Keynes and NCR 21 from New Milton. Both were validated by being printed by what was effectively an NCR cash register, although cash wasn't kept in it. NCR 21 printed date, price and a machine number, and all other details were on the printed stock, including...

If this is still current: https://signalbox.org/the-blower/topic/oldest-colour-light-signal-on-the-national-network/

That's all correct. The 1500 Barnstaple returned as a through train to Paignton at 1725 off Exeter and then made the 1830 Paignton - Cardiff.

Yes, I appreciate that - I got the impression that they were thinking a Vauxhall ticket, not a London one, would do for both destinations. I only mentioned the convoluted journey as it was described in post #3 and I wondered if it was being suggested that you get a Vauxhall ticket, which you...

I'm not sure why you think you can go via Battersea Park to Vauxhall, as you would have to double back to/from Clapham Junction. It seems to me that the options are either a Zones 2 & 3 Travelcard or a Streatham Common - London point-to-point season, which as mentioned already cost about the...

There was also a 1702 Waterloo-Waterloo via Chertsey and Hounslow in 1974. I have a 1966 timetable: 0815 Chertsey-Waterloo, from Waterloo 0714 via Brentford 1707 Waterloo-Waterloo via Chertsey and Brentford 1807 Waterloo-Chertsey The last couple of trains at night from both directions...

I think the point is that a lot of the coal traffic going up the GC ended up on the GWR.

I have always assumed the fare rises were to account for the largely vastly better sevice that runs these days - well, or certainly did prior to Easter 2020. When I were a lad, just to give a family-related example, I had relatives at the bottom end of the District branch to Wimbledon: on a...