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  1. AlbertBeale

    Checking a cross-London/round-central-London routing

    Can someone confirm that a cross-London through ticket from, say, West Hampstead to the Brighton Line / south coast / etc would be valid via Kensington Olympia (and Clapham Junction etc) as well as via an Underground or Thameslink route across the centre. Thanks. I assume it's perfectly valid...
  2. AlbertBeale

    Compensation for delay in the case of a free ticket

    I understand that "Delay Repay" is a clever turn of phrase, but that delay compensation isn't strictly a repayment, rather it's compensation for being delayed. However, for convenience of fixing an amount, it's calculated based on a percentage of the price paid for the ticket on that journey...
  3. AlbertBeale

    Route excess possible on Solent crossing?

    Period return tickets between London and stations in the Island Line are cheaper than 2 singles, both in the case of Off-Peak and Super-Off-Peak; however, tickets are all explicitly routed via the ferry or via the hovercraft (and the prices are a bit different too). If I had an Off-Peak or...
  4. AlbertBeale

    Advice re circular journey

    I hope the experts here can offer some useful thoughts... 1. If I need to travel from London to Birmingham one afternoon for an event there, and then travel to Liverpool the next morning for a meeting there, and then go on to Manchester either that evening or the following morning, for a...
  5. AlbertBeale

    Sending important letters - signed for or special delivery?

    Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/fare-evasion-court-letter-help.252433/ Registered post and Signed For are different. Signed For is just that - it goes in the regular sytem, for £1.50 on top of ordinary price, and you get proof of posting when you hand it in at...
  6. AlbertBeale

    Destination Paddington

    On Monday evening, the next departures shown for the westbound line at Kings Cross H&C/Met/Circle included one with destination Paddington. I'm sure I've never seen this before. Is this a normal/regular destination, or a result of disruption? Which Paddington SSL station would it be, and where...
  7. AlbertBeale

    Off-Peak more expensive than Anytime

    I just looked up the price of a ticket from Chinley to Sheffield, for a possible journey later this month, and NRE is showing me an Off-Peak ticket for £13.70 and an Anytime for £11.00. What on earth is an Off-Peak for in a situation like this? Or is it a glitch?
  8. AlbertBeale

    Semi Flex query

    I have a Semi Flex return on a train out of London Waterloo, which (I understood) was like a combination of a Saver outbound and a regular off-peak period return on the way back (for an intermediate price, between that of a pair of single Savers and a regular off-peak period return). But the...
  9. AlbertBeale

    Belgian tickets

    If spending a few days in Belgium, and making a handful of rail journeys while there (mix of singles/returns, probably mostly - though not exclusively - on one route [ie Ostend-Brugge-Ghent-Brussels]), is there any type of local/regional ticket that's cheaper than just individual tickets for...
  10. AlbertBeale

    Checking train times from more than a week ago

    I see that RTT only allows searching past records for the last week. Is there any other easy-to-use open access site where you can find what time trains actually ran a month or so ago? Thanks.
  11. AlbertBeale

    Is the use of cash dying out?

    mods note - split from here. Of course not - I'm comparing either/both of these (neither of which is physical cash in your hand/wallet/pocket where you can see it and keep track of it as you spend it) with, yes, physical cash. (As I said!) Some people find using the latter has many advantages...
  12. AlbertBeale

    Conflicting/unrelated train information

    I was puzzled, earlier, when on the northbound Northern Line platform at Waterloo a train arrived with "High Barnet (via Bank)" showing on the front. I did a double take, given the incompatibility of "via Bank" and being at Waterloo... (The platform indicator wasn't showing destinations of the...
  13. AlbertBeale

    Central European History post World War 2

    mods note - split from this thread: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/is-berlin-hbf-the-capital-city-station-with-the-most-direct-trains-to-other-capitals.225839/ West Berlin duing that era isn't the only such "anomaly" - the Åland Islands, between Sweden and Finland, are part of Finland...
  14. AlbertBeale

    Rationale for the offering of HM Forces Railcard

    Mod note - split from this thread: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/how-would-you-reform-the-railcard-system.218819 I don't like the "political posturing" that was presumably the reason for the forces' and veterans' discount cards - and see no logic in those cards.
  15. AlbertBeale

    Should most flights within Europe be stopped?

    Mod Note: Posts #1 - #2 originally in this thread. Not "the only chance" - the situation will change if most flights are stopped within Europe, which they need to be.
  16. AlbertBeale

    My suggestion for there to be only one fare for each flow (at least for walk-up tickets).

    Moderator note: split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/problem-buying-ticket-at-glasgow-central-today.200062/#post-4431566 As to Milton Keynes tickets - I was never offered the option of paying more for flexibility. But the point surely, is that it's ridiculous to have such an...
  17. AlbertBeale

    Train delays in Germany - questions

    I recently had major problems during some journeys using DB (interesting in themselves, perhaps, but no time for details now). The questions I have at the moment are: 1. Is there any standard/automatic delay-repay type of compensation on DB? (So I know how much it's worth going to the bother of...
  18. AlbertBeale

    International sleeper trains - present / potential / priorities

    Given one or two items elsewhere in the forums, and the latest news about the new Vienna-Brussels service just starting, maybe there should be a thread on this topic - especially looking at priorities and possibilities (including which routes should be top of the list to [re-]introduce). For...
  19. AlbertBeale

    Concerns regarding the use of concessionary Oyster cards in the London area

    Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/paying-only-when-challenged-%E2%80%93-cash-vs-card.197292/ If you're someone in London who wants to claim concessionary travel, you're only allowed to have it if you use a method of "payment" - ie an electronic Oyster card linked...
  20. AlbertBeale

    When is a fare not a fare on Eurostar?

    I realise that Eurostar tickets are all like "advance" ones, where prices change (upwards) as time goes by. But I assumed that the price for a train was what it was at any moment in time. However, I recently found that if you try to buy a ticket from their St P ticket office, they try to charge...

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