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Hi all, I'm going to be travelling down to Cornwall from London on 24 December and returning on the 27th. Planning my journey, I'm not sure what to make of the fact that timetables for those days show the Pullman as being available on the 1303 from London and the 1816 from Plymouth respectively...

Thanks, trek, for confirming the operation is technically feasible. That's a good thought about trying a visitor's centre; I think the last time I used one of those was a long time ago when they were one of the few (only?) places to buy the now-defunct odd-period bus passes! Incidentally a...

Thanks for your reply. If the hassle basically amounts to: Going to a ticket office to buy a ticket Having £200 less in my bank account for two months Going to a ticket office to refund the ticket …and it saves, say, £100 in travel costs after deductions, then to me it's worth it. It'd be a...

Hi all, Long while since I've posted here but still lurk from time to time (and use tickets.railforums.co.uk on occasions when buying in advance) so haven't forgotten about this place. Hoping for a bit of guidance/reassurance please! :) I will shortly be travelling in to central London from...

I've been thinking some more about this. If we assume that the Potters Bar to ‘boundary zone 3’ PAYG extensions are priced so that two of those plus a zone 1–3 cap equals the cost of the corresponding Potters Bar to 1–6 travelcard, we arrive at the following extension fare prices: Off-peak...

Thanks for the replies everyone. So just to confirm, my understanding of the system (in terms of capping, extensions etc.) was fundamentally correct, it's just the extension fare was far higher than expected? Do we have a rough idea anywhere (even if out of date) of how much the extension fares...

Hi all, I have a query about capping and extension fares on contactless in London because I think I've been overcharged but TfL disagree so I'm starting to wonder if I'm going a bit mad. A few days ago I made the following journeys: Bus £1.65 Bus £0.00 Potters Bar to South Kensington...

Well, you can't prove it's a coincidence, no more than I can prove that it's not a coincidence. The article I linked to gives some scientific basis for the possibility of a correlation between pollution and wet weather… but then, yes, considering the time of the year etc. it could of course just...

I actually think the OP might be on to something – there was some research about twenty years ago which showed that weekends tend to be wetter than weekdays, and a potential cause of this was varying levels of pollution. (Anecdotally, from when I grew up in the 90s I have a few memories of days...

I've been thinking the same as ANDREW_D_WEBB: I remember years ago seeing those temporary stops all the time, but these days the only times I see them are to replace a traditional bus stop pole in a normal bus stop's location. I was on a bus recently where a stop was closed and it was quite a...

Well this is exciting: some bus routes are starting to see frequency increases!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Anyone who's been following the plight of London's bus routes during the last couple of years will understand the reason for all the exclamation marks…) It's...

To answer a question posed earlier in this thread, post-journey negative fare adjustments (for want of a better term) do happen using contactless thanks to the back-office processing. This means that a journey from Watford Junction to Euston using contactless would initially be charged the full...

There was a period of a couple of days earlier this week when the Oyster/contactless account part of TfL's website went offline completely to be replaced by a message about maintenance or something like that. During that time, it seems that the recording of journeys on contactless cards (I don't...

I'd say the best thing you can do is find one or more pieces of music you want to play, whose level of difficulty isn't unrealistic for you to overcome with a bit of practice. Basically, giving yourself a musical goal/reward – and then, in pursuit of that goal, you might find other pieces of...

I have been cajoled in to replying to this thread by yorkie. :lol: I suppose the avatar is a bit of a giveaway in terms of having a musical background. It's funny, I always imagined myself to be pretty much the only person with a music degree who's ended up working in IT and lo and behold...

This is actually a real problem to a certain extent: I've got three cards with First Direct, they're all black and look very similar, with two looking identical except for the account details. I use contactless via Apple Pay so have to be very careful that I'm always choosing the same one on my...

Indeed, but my thinking is that if someone in the OP's position were to implore said member of rail staff to check it to prove his/her innocence, it would either: A. persuade the member of staff that the ticket holder really is innocent, or B. at least compel them to go and find a piece of...

I always used to find that there was a greater chance of getting a seat at Turkey Street than there was at Enfield Lock, so even considering the reduced seating on the new LO trains they might still be easier to sit down on than the GA service. Having said that, I moved out of the area at about...

I seem to recall that a magstripe records the last gate it was passed through? If so, whilst inconvenient, I suppose that suggesting a particularly belligerent member of staff checks the magstripe might be a way of persuading them that the ticket has been used correctly.

If the routeing guide really didn't permit a genuine quickest route on a non-routed ticket (I'm defining ‘genuine’ as meaning during normal service hours e.g. not fringe cases like journeys that begin late at night and involve a kip on a platform for several hours) then I'd be tempted to invoke...