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I'm shortly going to be going into the office three days a week, so a flexi season ticket seems to be the cheapest way to pay for my travel. Are there any ways of getting cashback/nectar points/whatever on the purchase price? I'm taking using a cashback credit card to buy it with as read.

On another thread... And someone (@Hadders?) very sensibly suggested taking it away from the original thread. So here goes... My take is that the railways want to be reassured that the passenger will not fare dodge again. So it's in the passenger's interest to try and offer that reassurance to...

I don't think that this has been posted: if it has then (1) apologies and (2) please lock/merge/delete as appropriate: From https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/tfl-ai-fare-dodgers-london-underground-artificial-intelligence-b1124563.html#:~:text=Artificial intelligence is to be,station, on...

In the last few days we've had a couple of threads about different railway companies where - passenger has been caught fare dodging but has settled the incident (off the top of my head I am not sure if this is only by out of court settlement or whether penalty fares have also applied) - railway...

Famously, Temple Meads station is not particularly central to Bristol. Given that the station was built for the GWR, and the GWR was an initiative by Bristol people, why is this? Surely a Bristol railway would have wanted the station as near to the then commercial centre of Bristol as possible?

Over in D&P, there are loads of posters coming to us because they thought they could use their £5 anytime ticket (bought against the 1030 train) on the 0830 train, and they were caught out. As I understand it, the point of the time/price restrictions on railcards is to discourage their use on...

Posting this as a new thread as while inspired by the above, I am not sure if the suggestion I am about to make would actually work - but if it does it may be of more general application. The Post Office offer a post restante service: see https://www.postoffice.co.uk/mail/poste-restante. But...

I'm spinning this off from a specific thread to allow a more general discussion. Mods please remerge if I have got this wrong. Is there law over what powers railway staff have to take a phone to check a ticket that's on the phone? What about then checking the phone for past tickets and so on...

Salford Central is going to be closed from 2 January 2023 to rebuild the platforms to a (hopefully) much more user-friendly height. I understand that there will be a peak-time rail replacement bus running Salford Crescent - Salford Central - Manchester Victoria. A work colleague has asked how...

As in the title, please could anyone advise on the above? The context is that I am thinking about a circular trip Liverpool - Slough (overnight) - Newport (overnight) - Liverpool and I am wondering if it would make sense to get a Liverpool - Newport ticket plus something for when I go off a...

Moderator note split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/offered-administrative-disposal-should-i-just-pay-it.230843/#post-5631394 Are you sure about this? That might be the case for a penalty fare (which is some sort of fare), but this appears to be an offer to settle out of court rather...

In another thread, I wrote I'm now wondering if this is actually true - both (a) in law, and (b) in practice If it's not true in law, then obviously I shouldn't be suggesting that going straight to court might happen. But even if a prosecutor is allowed to do this, do they (in particular do...

I've taken this comment from another thread as it may be of general interest and we need ti bear the law in mind. My understanding is that Magistrate's Court proceedings have to start within six months of the offence, but there's no such limit for Crown Court cases. Am I right in this? And if...

I've started a separate thread here as this may be a point of general interest but of no particular help to the OP in the original thread. Do we have an agreed railway definition of 'commuting'? If not, does the Cambridge definition (the first one to pop up when I Google 'definition commuting')...

While I've been rather disrupted today, I don't think I have any right to claim anything back (or at least, nothing that would be worth the effort). Would anyone like to advise? The plan: To go on a day trip from my home in the Liverpool area to my father's on the edge of Slough and back...

Our text today is taken from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/given-a-fine-for-fare-evasion-even-though-the-employee-told-me-it-was-just-a-written-warning.224364/ I've simplified the facts a little so that we can concentrate on a particular point which we've seen a number of times...

I'm starting this thread to consider the practicalities of using Flexi seasons. We've got another thread to consider whether the savings against day tickets - I'm hoping that this might give us a chance to share understanding and clarify how the things will actually work. And I have some...

I don’t think it’s premature to ask this... In the foreseeable future, I’m going to be back in the office for a couple of days per week. My journey to work involves a couple of TOCs (Merseyrail and at least one of Northern/TPE/EMT) so I don’t think that a flexi-season will be available, and a...

We seem to be seeing a lot of posts that go - I made my first train journey since Covid and bought a railcard discounted ticket - I had forgotten that my railcard had expired - I met an RPI who took my details - I have been offered an out of court settlement. Do I have to pay that much? And the...

I don't think we have speculated on this one, so (with apologies if I am wrong) here goes: The scenario: it is suggested that XC should acquire bi-modes (e.g. IETs) to minimise the extent that they run on diesel under the wires. The problem: XC's current Voyager fleet, while rather worn and not...