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I don't know if I'm the first to notice this but when is an anytime not an anytime? Put simply all anytime singles on this route are showing as valid only for the booked train and do not allow break of journey. It appears that these tickets are valid for bookdtrainonly and break of journey not...

Is anyone else having trouble getting on the Routeing Guide? I keep getting a bad gateway error. Is there any alternative way of accessing it other than data.atoc.org/routeing-guide ?

Hi all, I'm traveling from Stansted airport at 1930, to Selby, on an advance ticket routed Peterborough & LNER on 2nd October. I booked this slightly before the announcement of the overtime ban, which is presumably the reason that 2h54 has been pre-cancelled. My itinerary was to get the 1930...

The problem of not being able to nook interravailable tickets on Grand Central has been solved. However has anyone had trouble booking 3v restricted tickets even at times when they're clearly valid if GC are part of the suggested itinerary? Instead anytime tickets are suggested even in the...

I've just had an idea for a new way of codifying reasonable routes. It would involve a radical paring down of the Routeing Guide to a series of a few, simple, suggested routes between routeing points. Let's call this the 'GBR/RDG (delete as favoured) book of routes'. But don't worry...

I've just booked an Anytime Return with Virgin Trains Ticketing, with the e-ticket fulfilment method and it shows the outward as only being valid for one day. Furthermore, it shows the return portion, booked for the day after starting on that date, rather than the date of the outward. Anyone...

I note that TfL buses accept American express contactless but have yet to come across any other operator in the country that does. Is there such a thing? If so, who?

I used to travel extensively by rail, but find myself doing this less. Part of it is because having moved, the bus is now much more convenient (I don't drive nor can I). But there is another side in which the industry really isn't helping itself, namley trying to make itself as offputting as...

I note there are two sets of fares from Selby to Doncaster, 'not via lds/yrk' and 'any permitted'. Yet the any permitted appears to add no validity. My question is this: Were there any more permitted routes in the orignial routeing guide and if so, does anyone know when and why they were...

Of course, the Railways have the Railway Children and McDonalds has Ronald McDonald houses. Does anyone know how many similar charities exist and what exactly the motivations are behind them, and whether they actually do much good work? Just a thought that crossed my mind randomly... Is the...

I have a holiday booked in Latvia in February. It looks like it is and won't be for long, a good place for bashing Soviet era trains. In particular does anyone know if the ER2 and DR1 trains are still about? If so on which routes do they tend to operate and if a route is operated with mixed...

Hi, I have an e ticket from Selby to fort William, which I have successfully used. Scanned fine at all the gatelines but made the rejection sound on both ScotRail services I travelled on. Was accepted no problem between Edinburgh and Glasgow Queen Street and was indeed accepted between Queen...

The various threads on historical ticketing and routeing over the years have got me thinking: How did all this work pre-BR? I know we had the Railway Clearing House to, among other things allocate revenue, in fact the parallels with Rail Settlement Plan are striking. However how did all this...

I've been using the 'tap on tap off' system on Arriva Yorkshire for my commute from Selby to York. For the most part it's worked very well indeed, however last night the driver turned off the ticket machine as we approached Selby bus station (mine and the bus' final destination - it was the...

These are I believe something that exists in other countries. Would they do well here? We have many a community owned heritage line, but what about turning them into more practical community railways to serve the community with public transport where private and public provision fails? My...

I appreciate the majority, even on the far left, have thankfully deserted the Russian regime. Good! My question is why are nations such as Cuba voicing support for Russia and why are some in far left circles supporting what is in essence a right wing, nationalist regime? Is it as simple as...

Why are public authorities so reluctant to apologise for behaviour that was completely wrong? I understand it's for fear of being sued, either that or professional arrogance but I'd just like to know why they aren't more 'user friendly'. I work in customer service and spend half my life...

I was looking at train times for tomorrow and it appears TPE have finally lost the plot and jumped on the compulsory reservations bandwagon. For a TOC that has a high level of commuter traffic surely this is utterly ludicrous? What can we, as passengers, do to combat this? I for one will be...

Hi I'm looking at the availability of the overnight return (NVR) between Northallerton and Thirsk. The ticket is routed any permitted. However there's some odd behaviour by apps. In the tpe app if I select a grand Central service combined with a tpe service it suggests buying a more expensive...

Just on the 9m20 Newcastle to Manchester. The guard has apologised for the train being extremely busy (it always is on a Saturday). However he's saying the trainline have in many cases double booked people in the same seats and apologised to anyone who has someone sat in the same seat. I've...