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The Off Peak return from London to Oxford is £36-20 whether traveling from Paddington or from Marylebone. My question is "Is it therefore OK to travel by one route outbound and by the other route inbound ? Whether one buys the ticket on the GWR website, on the Chiltern website or at the...

I fairly regularly travel from Fareham to Crewkerne using a through Off Peak Return ticket. This involves two trains, the GWR Portsmouth to Cardiff service then, changing at Salisbury, the SWR Waterloo to Exeter service. Both services are hourly with an advertised connection time at Salisbury...

My recent experience with GWR was on Saturday 21 April when many trains were cancelled due to driver shortage. I was on a Cardiff - Portsmouth Harbour train boarding 13:36 at Bath. Just before Westbury the guard came on the loudspeaker and announced that the train will now be terminating at...

The NationalRail site records a single journey for the one stop between Yeovil and Crewkerne as being £4.40 single, a return at £5.10 if you return the same day but a staggering £46 if you return the next day. I hope nobody falls for this. In fact all the return fares between any stations...

At the beginning of January SWT introduced Off-Peak fares at certain times of the day on Saturday, Sundays and Bank holidays. Until then Super Off-Peak fares were applicable all day. The effect of this is that day returns have increased by 20% if you travel up to London in the morning and back...

As reported in today's papers: Top 10 most expensive train station car parks in the UK are: Reading - £23.70 Southampton Airport Parkway - £15 Guildford - £14.50 Brighton - £13.10 Ebbsfleet - £12.60 Coventry - £12 Macclesfield - £12 Milton Keynes - £10.80 Billericay - £10.60...

Q: Is it possible to get a Southampton to Manchester walk-on off peak return that allows you go travel via Birmingham one way and via London the other way ? I ask because a) I am travelling north on Thursday, day of tube strike so going via Birmingham is best b) I am returning on Sunday...

I was wondering if anyone knew which EC services are rostered for HSTs on the Kings Cross through York route, specifically on weekdays between 10:30 and 14:30. Ditto on the return journey back from York between the same times. On my trip I just thought I might like to go one way on a 91...

With the collapse of the sea wall at Dawlish and the prospect of the line not being re=opened for many weeks, if not months, I was wondering how many train sets are, in effect, trapped in Devon and Cornwall, in particular HST sets and Cross Country Voyager sets. I realise that this is early...

Attached is an interesting article from the Hull Daily Mail stating that there is going to be a meeting on Feb 25th with the Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin and MPs and business leaders from all around Hull...

The local Cambridgeshire paper reports that the Offord Cluny Level Crossing south of Huntingdon on the ECML has been closed...

Wow ... and it still seems to be going (Picture courtesy of the Daily Mail)

I was reading elsewhere that on stormy days like today train companies may still incur financial penalties if their trains are late, but if they cancel them then there are no penalties. So announcing that there will be no trains until 09:00 is far better proposition for them than announcing...

It's Friday 11 October and England are playing a World Cup qualifier match at Wembley in the evening. The result was that the 5-car Class 444 on the 23:05 was overcrowded; it was not until Winchester, an hour later, that everyone had a seat. Some of these late evening services to Bournemouth...

Just a question perhaps someone could answer Are the 23:35 and 00:05 services from Waterloo normally rostered for 444 or 450 stock ? I know the later 01:05 service is normally Class 450 stock. Thanks

Everybody seems to want it and wants it completed by the time Crossrail is up and running. http://www.bdpost.co.uk/news/chancellor_urged_to_fund_gospel_oak_to_barking_line_electrification_in_budget_1_1978187 You never know. THis time it may just well happen. I hope so

All of a sudden, my opinion of London Midland has shot up dramatically http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2291400/Message-lady-phone-1st-class-Shhhhhh-Noisy-passenger-told-quiet-train-driver.html Great story

There's always time for a smile http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/toy-train-company-who-wrote-to-department-for-transport-offering-to-run-the-west-coast-mainline-receive-reply-from-private-secretary-8443250.html

An interesting article about a person not being allowed on the platform to see her parents off. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/dundee/daughter-upset-by-railway-station-platform-restrictions-1.63662 Apparently, according to ScotRail, this is due to security reasons. What a load of...

For months now the train companies have been telling us how much they are gearing up for the Olympics and yesterday on 'Super Saturday' ATOC put out a Press Release saying how half a million extra seats would be available. Undoubtedly true as that was in many parts of the country, I am not...