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The first announcement for 2024 has come from Transport Scotland, with Caledonian Sleeper berth fares to increase by an average of 8.7% from 1st January 2024, and ScotRail fares to increase by an average of 8.7% from 1st April 2024. To soften the blow slightly, the ScotRail peak fares removal...

As per the title really. I distinctly remember there being a web-based journey planner that had route optimisation functionality (e.g. If you had an origin of A, destination of E, and desired stopping points of B, C, and D it would solve the Travelling Salesman problem for you and work out the...

We often refer to the Network Area "rule" in both this and the Disputes & Prosecutions forum, whereby it's long been held that time restrictions only apply to the "long-distance" leg of a ticket where one end is within the former Network SouthEast area, but where is this actually documented for...

The Rail Delivery Group has been authorised to make a new offer by the DfT: https://www.rmt.org.uk/news/rmt-receives-fresh-offer-from-rdg/ Broadly the same as before, but with DOO left to negotiation at TOC level, no compulsory redundancies until 31st December 2024, a new round of Voluntary...

The text of the new "Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill" which Grant Shapps introduced today has now been published. It's broadly the same as the previous Transport-specific bill, but extended to cover health services; fire and rescue services; education services; transport services...

I'm sure I've seen this in a thread before, but my Search skills have failed to locate it. The basic question is "Can you use a walk as the first leg of a route?" Now for the specifics: The logical route for a Bicester Village - Slough ticket is via Oxford, but is it also valid via High Wycombe...

Per the subject, the new Rail Staff online booking site is now live. To prevent "Joe Public" from registering, you need to provide a one-time UUID (32 character hex string) provided by RSTL and your Date of Birth as part of the registration process. A few observations: The booking engine is...

RDG issued a staff brief yesterday regarding the impending demise of paper Travelcard Season tickets for journeys wholly within Zones 1-9, bringing TOCs into line with TfL. The short version is that sales are discouraged from Monday 4th April, with them being removed from sale as of Wednesday...

Mod Note: A copy of the new NRCoT can be found in this post. Rail Delivery Group sent out a staff brief yesterday to advise of an updated version of the National Rail Conditions of Travel that's effective from 6th February 2022. Unfortunately they haven't uploaded it to either the public NRE...

The January issue of Modern Railways has just landed on my doormat, which means it's Golden Spanners Awards time. I'm not going to reproduce the whole thing here (not least because it runs to 14 tables this year), but here's an extract from the summary: Most reliable ex-BR DMU : SWR 159/1 Most...

I was 50/50 on whether to post this in the Covid-19 subforum or here. Mods: Feel free to move if you disagree with my decision! Rail Delivery Group have announced today that Railcards WILL NOT be extended, nor refunded, as a result of people not using them due to Covid. An FAQ page has been...

With the next round of timetable changes due to come into effect on Monday 7th September, Rail Delivery Group are seeking a return to something akin to normality in terms of Retail Policies from that date, as follows: Cross-Ticket Acceptance: At present, TOC-specific tickets can be used on any...

Having been looking at tickets for a group of four adults and two children travelling from London to Oxford Parkway next week, it appears that Chiltern have withdrawn their Small Group discount without notice. Where I was expecting a total price of £58.20 (£14.05 for the adults and £1.00 for...

Note: Original posts come from this thread As promised, here's a worked example demonstrating the difference between ignoring the fact that multiple changeovers have occurred and taking them all into account. Whilst the dates are in the past, the fares are taken from BRFares as of the time of...

Not sure if this has been posted elsewhere. It's certainly not in the first page of threads in here, anyway. The Rail Delivery Group has published its submission to the Williams Review, and it's a doozy! The full submission can be found at https://www.bigplanbigchanges.co.uk/changingtrack, but...

Couldn't find an existing thread on this, so I'll kick off with the info for Chiltern. Existing Class 68 diagrams roll over, with a finish date of Saturday 5th October 2019. There is a slight typo in the Monday to Friday list, in that 2T03 should be 1T03. Other than that, the 165 to West...

The Financial Times (https://www.ft.com/content/4f7d9fd8-ba98-11e8-8274-55b72926558f - Behind a paywall) and Bucks Free Press...

Link to vacancy: https://jobs.chilternrailways.co.uk/recruiter/page_jobinfo.php?id=308 As multi-skilled staff, the CSA team cover the Information Desk, mobility assistance, Ticket Office, gateline, announcing and Lost Property. Basic salary is £29642 (subject to annual review) + £2833 London...

I know it's a while off yet, with the current franchise currently due to expire in December 2021, but what sort of things do you think we'll see (or hope we'll see) in the next Chiltern franchise?

Mayoral Decision MD2189 has been published today, giving details of changes to TfL fares with effect from 2nd January 2018. Summary: Bus and Tram "Hopper" fare extended to allow unlimited changes within the one hour period Tube and Bus & Tram fares frozen NR only, "Mixed Mode" and Travelcard...