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Sorry, my mistake, living down near Eastleigh I automatically looked at the origin Eastleigh towards Waterloo direction.

BR Fares suggests the Anytime day return is currently £92.80. It’s possible the journey planner has quoted a return fare that is a mix of singles and/or advance.

Interesting that he says they used a brick building at that location because they couldn’t get a container into the site. We were discussing this a few weeks ago and some people thought it had been a local planning restriction. Maybe that wasn‘t the case after all.

It’s because of the way NR "permitted development rights" are allowed. Work such as putting up a GSM(R) mast is considered an update to the signalling system, and updates to operstional systems were generally allowed by the original Acts allowing the railway to be built in the first place...

Thats not permitted under planning law.

Yes, that’s right, but the same rule of selling applies, you can buy a ticket to Yarmouth IOW from other stations that do include a rail leg, such as Lymington Town. The rail leg doesn’t have to be on the island, Portsmouth and Southsea to Ryde Pier Head should be available.

That would be a ferry only journey, and I believe there’s an agreement that the railway will only sell fares that include a rail segment. I don’t think the rail ticketing system will sell Lymington Pier to Yarmouth either.

NR are probably waiting for the forum experts to finish designing the extended EWR cross Oxford service patterns. Until that’s done how would they even know how many platforms to build? o_O :D

Congratulations - I’m pretty sure nobody’s ever suggested that before in about 15 years of repeating the same old stuff every few months…

The forum also has a fairly long running thread all about the SN Coastway changes, explains the rationale: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/southern-timetable-changes-consultation-coastway-west.252975/

It was odd, watching the BBC website ‘live coverage’, how they were attempting to drive the narrative, especially in the way they asked stupid leading questions about riderless horses, and why/how that could possibly happen. It was as if no one at the BBC had ever heard of horses bolting when...

This was posted in January: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/caught-by-using-my-little-sisters-zip-oyster-card.261755/

I guess having only been here a few days you haven’t found all the previous similar threads. There really are a few started every year, dozens of them in total… So here’s a selection from this sub-forum...

I expect they’re still OK with that as they’ll get the same cross London contribution they always did. The problem if Crossrail allowed a London Terminal such as Liverpool St to be valid from the west, or Paddington from the east, is that it would have given TfL nothing.

Sorted out on Monday, was mentioned in post #9