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For pedantry - bus ticketing also is moving towards Aztec codes - the MCard app now displays two Aztec codes (you're right, the bus one used to be a QR code going back a few years I think) for bus and train, however they have different payload sizes.

Unfortunately not, for tickets not purchased via TS in the first place - as you correctly state, there are costs involved with offering seat reservations functionality, so it's not something that's able to be offered free of charge as a wider service.

An interesting one - if someone travels from, say, Harrogate to London via York rather than via Leeds (both valid routes) on a flexible ticket due to disruption via the former, what (if any) Delay Repay is due if that person decides that, as they’re in York anyway it would be good to pop into...

@stuartmoss and I ended up on the same 158 from Leeds earlier - though neither of us were quite sure enough of the other’s identity to actually say hello until it was too late and they had already alighted

Unfortunately - flying is the comparison I’d focus on, capacity-constrained Lumo aside. A week out, I can get an EasyJet flight from Luton reliably under £50. If I’m just going away for a weekend and only needing a backpack, it’s both quicker and significantly cheaper. The Haymarket solution...

Assuming you're travelling with European Sleeper - there's only one sleeper car (usually at the front of the consist eastbound, though not always), which is rather old but has a certain amount of charm to it! Rooms are allocated, you can't choose a specific one. My main advice is that if you...

You're already in Z6 at Elstree & Borehamwood, so that'll likely be priced the same as a Z4-6 single. In any case, as a rule of thumb you can't leave the Zonal area on (most) point-to-point tickets where the start and destination (be it named station or zone set) are within it. (there are a very...

Bedford isn't so bad - doubling back via Wixams is probably going to be broadly equivalent as now with overall times. Wellingborough/Kettering combined to Leicester and beyond is probably a large enough flow that cutting all direct services would be problematic. I can see a scenario in reality...

If they did that, a wider recast of service patterns on the MML would be needed as Wellingborough - Leicester via Wixams would not be seen as acceptable.

Can we move any further discussion related to Universal Bedford's potential build to a thread in Speculative Discussion please. Back on topic - I was disappointed to see yesterday that EMR had reverted to the practice they trialled at the end of last year of all Connect services being 4-car...

According to Railcam (on the camera pages when logged in):

A couple of others within Europe (though you then need to go to a desk to get the passport stamped): France (at least at major ports of entry e.g. CDG Airport/St Pancras International - though the latter is having a remodel of the immigration layout at the moment so its temporarily manned desks...

On an entirely pedantic note Serco have nothing to do with CS as of last year - it’s now run by a company owned 100% by Transport Scotland.

Indeed - though AFAIK these Vix gates also have 'traditional' Cubic barrier arrays in the same gateline? I suspect there's still a significant-enough Wales-London demand that it's not tenable to replace an entire gateline with Vix gates yet.

I feel this is somewhat of an old fashioned view nowadays - both in terms of the trend @jon0844 refers to and also the stereotype of having some real ale at home after a busy day at work (even if you're the only one there) = bad (so long as it's not at a problematic level obviously!).

No - the TfL fares structure isn't valid on the direct route, you'd need to buy a paper ticket (or travel via London).

Extremely strong disagree. If the railway has a contract to get me from Aberdeen to London, they fail at Edinburgh (after being on time to that point) due to e.g. WCML closed and ECML blocked, and I decide to fly at additional expense, why should I be expected to pay for the Aberdeen to...

They were doing this for my arriving LNER service a few weeks back too. I wonder if there's some sort of issue with cross-border e-tickets not being interpreted correctly by the gate logic?

Unfortunately not - the outward portion is restricted to a single date.

It wouldn't be cheap - but for secondary level at least, could there be a set of tiny lockers (a bit like the ones you see in shopping centres etc but on a much larger scale) that students are expected to put their phone in at the start of the day and retrieve at the end (perhaps with power too...