Recent content by talldave

I'm a great fan of buying a ticket to somewhere you're not going, but I think you've got that covered. What you really need, especially for your YouTube thumbnail, is an appropriately named stuffed toy for the airline option to rival LNER's Eleanor.

New KeyGo T's & C's published to go with weekly capping: https://www.thameslinkrailway.com/-/media/goahead/gtr-all-shared-pdfs-and-documents/key-documents/keygo-conditions-of-use-v11.pdf At least it clarifies the Rail Day as 04:30 - 04:29. But a shame they didn't proof read them before...

Apologies for my misunderstanding. Since they didn't complete their journey before 04.29, their travel was spread over 2 days, so were they expecting to be charged a non "day" return fare? The slight complication with KeyGo is that you're not buying a ticket in advance, you're travelling and...

No I'm not. We weren't talking about returns, as far as I understand it. 1713866564 But the journey started at 3am - that's the point, surely? The system seems to be broken for journeys starting between midnight and 04:29. As @Taunton says, this isn't really on. It appears to have been...

I appreciate that, but I thought the reason for the 04.30 day end was to allow for completion of a journey started the day before (because trains don't all stop before midnight)? But behind that understanding was an assumption that the railway has a ticketing day of 28.5hrs - midnight on day 1...

But surely a journey starting at 3am should be considered as wholly belonging to that day, with 25.5 hours of "ticketing day" of its own? This error seems to mimic the one for station car parking where paying for a day's parking at 3am will get you just 1.5hrs coverage until 04.30am, followed...

If that's the case, perhaps the ASA or Trading Standards would care to investigate the "waiting here for a short time to regulate the service" issue that makes them very much not express? 1713802392 The frustration is in seeing empty buses sailing past because the service is only one way at any...

A 2 or 3 minute grace period would surely eradicate most "incidents" and negate most arguments about precise departure times/purchase notification delays/ etc.? Don't TfL do that on some of their timings? Serial "buy if an inspection occurs" offenders wouldn't be impacted, but ridiculous...

I think the problem is that nobody cares. Or, if someone does actually care, they're obviously powerless to fix things. But TOCs are happy to rush their customers to court when the rubbish they inflict on customers goes wrong. Does any other industry have such a lackadaisical approach to...

Does anyone really believe that the incompetence the OP would have experienced if they had responded to an initial letter would have been any different to the incompetence they experienced on the train? I don’t. There should be some redress for time, inconvenience, and humiliation for the OP.

Interesting - thank you. That sounds well worth checking out. The airport itself is pretty useless for seeing anything, but the parking pods provide a fun ride and good views of one of the runways!

It's a bit mind blowing trying to plough through and make any sense of them - thanks for your summary. I find the TfL Single Fare Finder atrocious in terms of its search algorithm. As you type in the word "Heathrow" character by character, it offers you a varying list of suggestions to choose...

I took: Crystal Palace - Clapham Junction (Southern) Clapham Junction - West Brompton (Overground) West Brompton - Earls Court (District Line) Earls Court - Heathrow T5 (Piccadilly Line) I tapped pink readers at Clapham Junction and West Brompton, although I think the latter alone would be...

As we were making a school holiday plane spotting trip to Heathrow yesterday, we decided to split up and compare the cheap route vs the expensive route by train from Crystal Palace to T5. I took the £3.70 avoiding Zone 1 route - four trains - whilst the others took the £13.30 Elizabeth Line -...

I suspect that split paper tickets with railcard for the full journey are unbeatable if you want to be able to use the Elizabeth Line from Heathrow.