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  1. kristiang85

    London Underground fare question

    Last Friday, I used my contactless card to get from Waterloo to East Finchley (I always use Oyster normally, as I have a gold card loaded onto it, but due to train delays I was in a rush and there was not enough credit on my Oyster and I didn't have time to top up). I think its the first time...
  2. kristiang85

    Process of getting refunds from Deutsche Bahn

    Last week (Tuesday) I had a typical nightmare journey on DB as I was trying to get back from Wurzburg to London. Hoping someone here has experience of claiming money back from them, as I've not done it before but I've had a considerable outlay I'd like to get back. My original itinerary was...
  3. kristiang85

    Apparent broken rail at Hook

    I've been sat on the 2005 from Waterloo to Bournemouth for nearly an hour now and it's yet to leave Waterloo. According to a passenger group I'm on there is a broken rail at Hook which has caused a huge backlog of delays, though information from SWR is very scant. Apparently trains are moving...
  4. kristiang85

    Cheapest fare not available on TVM - did I miss something?

    Just a quick one - today I was just doing a one way journey from Markinch to Edinburgh at 1314, which the national rail site said was £10.30 for a super off peak return, presumably not showing a single as the return was cheaper. The TVM only offered me £12.90 standard return (£13 for a...
  5. kristiang85

    Christmas 2022 train timetables

    I'm trying to look for trains between London/Scotand/North England for the week between 24th and 31st December, but on both NR and split ticketing they either show scant trains with no fares (or v. expensive fares for the couple that are fared), long journey times or saying that no timetables...
  6. kristiang85

    Russia invades Ukraine

    Mod Note: Posts #1 - #49 originally in this thread. Judging from what I'm seeing on the various accounts I follow about this, tonight is going to be a long night for Ukrainians.
  7. kristiang85

    Why is my ticket never accepted by the barrier?

    This is a small issue but its been bugging me for a while. Since the pandemic, I've ditched my annual season ticket from Basingstoke to Waterloo, and just travel in on off peak day returns once a week with a Hatton/Lapworth Gold card discount. I travel on the 0937 train (arriving 1023), and...
  8. kristiang85

    Excessing Basingstoke-Waterloo season ticket to go to Reading

    I am in possession of an annual season ticket from Basingstoke to Waterloo via Woking (plus zones 1-6). Lately I've had a couple of evenings in Reading, and the first time I went happened to be when I was renewing my season ticket. I asked for a day return to Reading, and I was told they just...
  9. kristiang85

    Northern franchise announcement / changes

    Sorry I couldn't add to existing threads as they were locked, but Andrew Neil just tweeted this: Stealth nationalisation by the Tories may be starting? Or has he got the wrong end of the stick?
  10. kristiang85

    Delay Repay rejection due to "reaching the maximum pro-rata full days travel"

    I saw this tweet which has been intriguing me this morning - a passenger is tweeting SWR complaining her delay repay was rejected due to the reason she "had already reached the maximum pro-rata full days travel". Could someone explain what this is? Assuming her quote from the rejection email...
  11. kristiang85

    No return ticket available - why?

    I was flying from Southampton at the weekend, and on Friday I tried to purchase an off peak return from Basingstoke to Southampton Airport Parkway on my Network Railcard. The machine did not have returns listed, so I went to the desk and they said SWR don't offer return tickets on this route. So...
  12. kristiang85

    Automatic Delay Repay on season tickets

    SWR keep promising that next year delay repay will be automated on advance tickets and season tickets. Whilst I can see how it works on the advances (it's worked very well for me on Virgin), how on Earth does it work on season tickets? Given you touch in for the station and not your exact train...
  13. kristiang85

    Why times and not train numbers in UK?

    Sorry if this has been covered before but I can't find anything on the search. Why is the UK different from pretty much any other country I've been to in that trains are known by their time, rather than the number of the service? e.g. on my commute, the 0650 from Portsmouth, the 0816 from...

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