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Apologies that this is a long post, but it is a summary of a dispute that has been going on now for the best part of 6 months. Last year, I had a weekend away to London, travelling on an off-peak return bought from TfW. I was delayed by over 2 hours by Avanti West Coast on my outward journey...

According to the PID traffic notices, local rail services over the river bridge were reduced last December, due to problems with the bridge. Does anybody have any further information, in particular when services might be restored. A lot of money was spent on resignalling and other upgrades to...

I regularly make journeys that involve one leg on an Avanti WC service, and another leg with one or more other TOCs. I would like to book using the Avanti web-site, in order to clock up Club Avanti points. However, the Avanti web-site tells me that there are no reservations left on the...

The recent press release from DfT included the following: How on earth are they going to spend a further £9.74 million of new investment to achieve enhancements ready for Easter 2021? Barely eight months away! Is this, as I suspect, just re-announcing something that is already well under way...

BBC News are reporting that Tower Bridge stuck open for more than an hour today, causing traffic chaos: BBC News Apparently it happened previously in 2005, when it was stuck open for 10 hours. The bit about it has reopened for pedestrians only is intriguing, suggesting it is still not...

I had booked a trip to Prague in the spring, that obviously did not go ahead. A month or so ago, after the travel restrictions had been lifted, I re-arranged my Easyjet flights for this autumn, and got the hotel to change my booking to match. No charge to amend the flights, slight charge for...

I recently travelled from North Wales to London. I carefully chose a train that would arrive well before rush hour, but as they say, the best laid plans.... I eventually arrived at Euston at 5pm-ish, on a weekday. I was concerned about travelling in the rush hour on the Victoria Line as...

Some TOCs are currently running services that are more or less reservation compulsory, e.g. XC, EC and Avanti WC. Last week, I was going to make a journey with a forward leg on one of these TOCs. I therefore tried to buy a ticket on-line, in order to get the required reservations. However...

The Isle of Man is now covid-free, Easyjet have resumed flights to Douglas, hotels (and all businesses) there have been allowed to re-open with no social distancing requirements, and I can now travel to the airport to get there, so things were starting to look hopeful for my holiday booked for...

collision of two trains in the tunnel near Oberwald VS

Yesterday, I submitted an on-line Delay Repay claim to TfW. Almost immediately, I received the standard acknowledgement email, and then two minutes later I received a second email saying: Thank you for your delay repay claim for your journey between London Euston and Porthmadog on 29/02/2020...

Looking in the TfW pocket timetable for the Cambrian (timetable 1 on https://tfwrail.wales/december-2019-timetables ) it shows the 1415 from Euston as the connection if you want to get the 1610 Birmingham International to Aberyswyth service. However, TFW's journey planner gives the 1443 (not...

Disruption on the Cambrian today, as the Welshpool to Sutton Bridge section was being worked by pilotman. OTT showed my train arriving at Welshpool, but didn't see it departing. About 3/4 hour late arriving at New Street, where it was terminated short. What kind of fault could cause the loss...

Currently, I have no way of buying a ticket for many of the journeys that I make, other than at destination or at a station where I changing trains. My Cambrian Coast station has neither a booking office nor TVM to either buy or collect a ticket, e and m tickets are not valid for cross-London...

On Sunday, I travelled from the Cambrian Coast. When we got to Machynlleth, we were told the train was going no further, and were put on a replacement bus to Shrewsbury. Of course, by the time we got to Shrewsbury, our connecting services had long gone. Myself and various other people went...

Is there a problem with Opentraintimes.com? The last couple of days I am just getting "ERROR The requested URL could not be retrieved. The system returned: (110) Connection timed out"

If Virgin sell a ticket now for travel after the franchise change, who gets the money? I suppose the same applies to any TOC that sells a ticket now for travel on the West Coast after the franchise change. I know that the money from a ticket sale gets divvied up according to what operators you...

Mod Note: Posts #1 - #13 originally in this thread. That sounds pretty generous to me. After 20 days annual leave, that leaves 9 days for the other items. I never had a single day's unpaid or additional leave in my whole working career, my company would look seriously at any employee taking...

I am trying to book a senior-railcard off-peak return from Machynlleth to Euston a week or so in advance, with reservations. I would like to select e-ticket (print at home) as the collection option, but the only options the TfW, VTWC and XC web-sites are offering is m-ticket, collect from...

The recent thread on cross-London travel got me thinking about the West London Line. Suppose I bought a ticket from East Croydon to "London Terminals" and got on one of the Southern services to Milton Keynes, how far would that ticket be valid to on that train? Clapham Junction? Likewise if I...