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Is there a generally accepted convention of what to do when a delay would have missed a connection, but you made the connection anyway because the onward connection was also delayed? That's the issue at hand here, I think.

Yes, my understanding of the industry rules is that you claim from LNR, because you would have missed the connection to the Avanti if it had been on time. That the Avanti happened to be late is immaterial. I had a similar case back in 2023, doing Fishguard to London. Fishguard to Carmarthen by...

Honestly, I would consider travelling Bognor Regis - Barnham - Havant - Clapham Junction - East Croydon, using SWR for the Havant-Clapham Junction leg. I expect you'd need to split tickets at Havant (i.e. buy separate tickets for Bognor Regis-Havant and Havant-East Croydon). Not ideal given it's...

No, I'm not aware of any occasion when there have been Victoria to Brighton direct trains via Dorking - the point has always been to give airport passengers a direct train to Gatwick, and they've always been advertised as Victoria-Gatwick. But until 2024 they called at Three Bridges, for...

I don't think it's bizarre, I think it's a way of subtly encouraging people not to travel without having to issue a full "DO NOT TRAVEL" warning. An unsuspecting would-be passenger will plug, say, Barnham to Victoria into a journey planner, see how ridiculously long the journey will take, and...

I would assume they will push as many people towards East Grinstead as possible. When the diversions last ran in January, they were not advertised to stop anywhere between Gatwick Airport and Clapham Junction, to manage overcrowding. The previous block in January 2024 had trains calling at Three...

Yes, they're used to doing them in January or February, when the demand for both air travel out of Gatwick and seasiders to Brighton is at its lowest. A block like this in July is a very, very different beast. This is the discussion thread from the previous occasion on which "Back Road" Diverts...

I can see at least six mistakes, or eight if you individually count the same mistake repeated. It also appears to be somewhat out of date, as there are at least four things missing that have been opened in the last decade or so.

I wonder if perhaps the issue lies with TfL, not with GTR? How would a member of gateline staff in a London Underground station be able to read an e-ticket and determine that someone holds a valid ticket for travel on Thameslink that, during these engineering works, should be accepted by TfL...

But it's a different schedule with a different headcode. In scheduling terms it's no different than a train terminating at, say, Wrexham Central, before departing again 2 minutes later as a new service. Moreover, each southbound train is advertised as terminating at Sutton, and then changes at...

This year *is* one of those where Easter is very late, though - most schools are on holiday for the two weeks before Easter and go back on Tuesday 22nd.

These turn out to be one and the same issue - the current 0821 departure from Birmingham (headcode 1L98) starts back from Bristol at 06:25 (and runs via Gloucester), but there is no such train in the new timetable. Hence why the 0752 will extend beyond Leicester in the path previously used by...

Basically this is part of restoring the XC Birmingham-Stansted service to hourly (instead of terminating at Cambridge every two hours). 1T19 departing Ely at 09:47 permits it to arrive into Cambridge at 10:06 instead of 10:07. This allows 1L30, the 07:22 XC service from Birmingham New Street, to...

Yes, that's exactly what's happening in September - there is a 30-day blockade of Huddersfield from Saturday 30th August to Sunday 28th September (i.e., reopening Monday 29th September), which moves Huddersfield to a temporary layout with just the three platforms on the new signalling. Therefore...

Coincidence. The timetable is written around trains making parallel moves over Blackfriars Junction, as the only way of achieving 24tph (or anything close). The running time between there and London Bridge (in either direction) means trains naturally end up at London Bridge at about the same time.

No, there are only cameras for 4, 8 and 12, so a 10-car stops two carriage lengths from the buffers in order that the rear lines up with the 12-car cameras. Presumably a 5-car would have to stop three carriage lengths from the buffers but I can't remember seeing that on the few occasions I've...

There were no express buses; as far as I know they haven't run for over a year now. Furthermore, the all-stops buses between Brighton and Three Bridges were in fact advertised as two separate buses, Brighton to Balcombe and Preston Park to Three Bridges, with identical timings between Preston...

On Tuesday nights / Wednesday mornings only, there is a longer opportunity for overnight maintenance access on the down line between Faversham and Ramsgate, which closes in stages between 23:25 and 23:40 on Tuesday night (for access on Wednesday morning), instead of in stages between 01:15 and...

I would agree with Hadders and say it's definitely worth contacting Trainsplit and explaining the situation - there is definitely an argument that this counts as an abandoned journey due to the cancellation of your first train, and you should be due a refund if you return the tickets. However...

For the record, the reason there is no 16:48 from Ely is that, on Sundays, the train that would be the 16:48 is planned instead to use the Ely West Curve, running non-stop from Thetford to Peterborough. This is the only train of the week booked to use the Ely West Curve. This was the train in...