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I travel to and from the Isle of Wight and St Albans on a fairly regular basis. I have noticed that, depending on the route I take, the same ticket is either valid or not valid! With an off-peak return, the fastest valid routes for the 14:25 red jet from Cowes require using the Elizabeth line to...

Can anyone explain why the armrest nearest the window on the trains that run to Weymouth etc is fixed rather than moveable? It looks as though it could have been movable but has been deliberately fixed.

I am planning to travel from St Albans to Woolwich next Tuesday off peak but probably returning same day from Welling. I have a Senior Railcard. Is there a suitable ticket that will allow this or am I better off going back to Woolwich at the end of the day? Phil

I have recently stumbled on a fare that uses three train companies services with specific routing points where the return off peak fare to the destination is cheaper than the equivalent fares to either of the two routing points! Depending on the time of day there is an even cheaper fare...

I've only recently started looking at single journey prices as my current working practices make a season ticket useless to me. I was amazed at the difference between a paper single from St Albans to London and using contactless - particularly at off-peak times! The contactless fare is even...

Any idea why I don't seem to be able to book tickets from St Albans to Cowes West on Friday 5 Nov? I can book the week before and I can book as far as Southampton Central on the 5th. I haven't seen anything about ferry problems for that date so it's a bit strange that the booking engines won't...

I notice that there are a lot less of these in the peak hours than there used to be and also even less in the evening peak (when annoyingly I need one!). Anyone know the reason for this?

I am using the last ticket on my flexi season ticket today. Do I have to wait until tomorrow to renew or can I do it at the ticket office this evening?

Yesterday I purchased a St Albans to London Thameslink off peak return with Senior railcard discount via the GWR web-site. When I attempted to collect the tickets two and a half hours later none of the machines I tried recognised the code. The man at the booking office tried as well with the...

If I purchase this ticket is the outbound journey restricted to from Waterloo and/or Paddington or would it be valid from elsewhere, e.g. CityThameslink?

Yesterday I had the misfortune to have to make this unscheduled/unplanned journey! As a result I had to buy the ticket from the machine at Silver Street (no open booking office). All I was offered was an Anytime Day Single at £18.10 (or a cheaper but somewhat longer route via West Hampstead)...

Last week I booked return tickets between St Albans and Shanklin via Hovertravel using the Thameslink website. On the outward journey the hovercraft was cancelled all day due to the weather. I had to make my own way to the Island by another route and was told to claim back the Hovertravel part...

Hi All, I am attempting to buy tickets travelling out on Friday 21st August and returning on Sunday 23rd ideally from St Albans to Shanklin. I would prefer to travel via Waterloo. I have an annual gold card (not covering any part of this journey). I don't seem to be able to get off peak returns...

Can anyone explain why the escalator directions are swapped over at weekends? Doing this means that passengers entering the station have to force their way though those exiting just to get to the escalator - seems daft to me!

I was messing about trying to find the best options for a journey to Gatwick starting near the end of the am peak period. As a result I was looking at senior railcard fares from East Croydon and a normal fare to East Croydon. I noticed that if I do this for a date in August, I get a fare of...

Not sure I'm going to put the claim in anyway but this does happen to me quite regularly and it's becoming annoying! Last Friday I traveled to Cowes West from Clapham Junction. The ticket is for the whole journey and I caught the 11:12 which is timetabled to arrive at Southampton at 12:21 in...

The published B2 timetable (and the ones on station walls) show a mon-fri 23:42 departure from Brighton to Bedford. This allegedly arrives at St Pancras at 01:16. When I've turned up to catch this at STP it never shows and is not shown as cancelled. I notice that it apparently ran yesterday...

I'm attempting to buy a single ticket from St Albans City through to Stockwell for use this Friday afternoon. I know what I need - a ticket to LU zones 1 & 2. It doesn't seem straight forward to do this on the GTR booking engine. I happen to know that Earls Court is in the same zone and for some...

I'm looking on BRFares for fares between Waterloo and Cowes West. The Weekend super off peak day return is shown as £40.40 whereas the off peak day return is £38.90. So why would I bother with the super off peak one? Or am I missing something!

I've received the following alert from National rail this morning: "The City Thameslink (CTK) to St Albans City (SAC) service, departing on 13 Mar 18 at 18:12 and arriving at 18:41 is running 9 minutes late. This information is correct as at: 8:30 on 13 Mar 18." Seems a bit premature to me...