Recent content by MrJeeves

For what it's worth, the £31 ticket would have been an advance I'm pretty sure, which would be non-refundable in almost all circumstances.

For what it's worth, the internal knowledgebase says that the correct approach is to excess on board provided there was no opportunity to excess before starting the journey: ...but I have no idea where in the NRCoT it allows this like the iKB claims!

Do they have specific agreements or are retailers simply allowing travel on non-reservable services non-discriminantly?

Indeed. Avanti ticket offices use tablets which appear to use software similar to that of on board staff, so I do wonder if they have similar restrictions as to what they can sell just like on board. I think the idea of blocking discounts for on board sales is a bit ridiculous though. What if...

Given that the OP explicitly mentioned using the 0759, I don't think they want to use the 0833, and that is instead simply their next best alternative for advance availability. The return ticket is, of course, a viable option, but advances may be cheaper as they say the return tickets haven't...

The only reason that I buy that ticket to Coventry is to allow me to use the WCML if I feel like it. I'd usually break my journey at Leamington, but this gives me the choice of a bus to Coventry and the WCML, or a bus to Leamington Spa and the Chilterns. While people may say I could buy the...

Well I'd have to get from Coventry to High Wycombe somehow on that ticket, and it wouldn't be teleportation!

Yeah, same today. O2 is the only one live. Only in the tunnels — station equipment is still off.

Some other manual discounting? :p

This is based off a scenario that's happened in the last 30 mins, but with some fare details changed* to make the topic more fun. I hold a Travel Agent Discounted ticket from Birmingham Stations to Burgess Hill, route via High Wycombe. I arrive at Coventry station, starting short, and wish to...

OP mentions this in their first post:

If I understand correctly, you would buy the £41.80 Anytime single from Eastbourne to Victoria for your outbound journey. For your return then buy a Network Railcard discounted super off-peak return from Eastbourne to London for £15.80. You'd throw away the outbound portion and only use the...

Or, worst case, a £27.55 flexible anytime single back with a Network Railcard. That's still a saving of £9.15 per day.

St Pancras has a generic distributed antenna system (DAS), which I believe either went live or was upgraded at the start of January 2023. You can see the rounded square panels in this photo, next to the illuminated emergency direction signs. City Thameslink also has a coverage solution but...

Indeed! I had to collect a ticket a week or so ago, and as Oscar says it happened to be an S&B machine, which spat out this error with the first card: ...then this error with the second card: But the third attempt with a third card worked fine! :p