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I think that the border agencies are simultaneously more competent and less competent than one expects. Officers can obtain additional information by going to the office, but I suspect not that much information is immediately available on the screen (based on several interactions where even if...

I don't have much time in Bosnia so I was thinking that if the timetable works out, after I arrive at SJJ airport I will get myself to Ilidža by bus/tram and catch the train into Sarajevo. There is a photo on Google which shows a small concrete structure beside the track, not sure if that is...

It's 82 euros for 5 people. Now it might still be cheaper to use the subscription ticket if you can work out the pro-rata refund thing, but for some people having a physical ticket is a benefit (and for a subset of those people, being able to pay in cash is also a benefit).

It's certainly true that some people put their whole life onto a phone, and that some people are against having their personal data collected. I see this argument on many online forums. Why do you think these two groups contain the same people? People I know in the former category and are not...

My view is: if you previously held a valid railcard and were eligible to renew at the time it expired, then when caught travelling on a discounted ticket for the same type of railcard, allow it to be renewed immediately for £100 with the new expiry date being 12 months from the previous expiry...

I don't see how this is a problem as long as you have a valid ticket for every journey you make. If they don't want Dublin residents to use them they need to come up with a fair way to implement restrictions. Should an Irish citizen who lives outside Ireland not be allowed to use a visitor...

There used to be a TPE arriving Glasgow around 0030 and there is a Avanti (Virgin at the time) departure at 0426, I met some interesting characters in the 24h McDonalds including an elderly lady who told me she worked an overnight shift all her life and saw no reason to change after retirement...

The UK collects API on all flights, in both directions, between the UK and outside the CTA, and has done so for at least a decade. What makes you think that it wasn't collected? API may not always be verified against a physical document, that doesn't mean it isn't collected. For example when...

Will I be able to get a mobile BP and go straight to security for one-way Luton-Sarajevo? (British passport)

You see very little of the actual coast from the coastal tramway unless you get off and walk.

I wonder if the decision to hold or not hold is influenced by whether tickets with that itinerary have been sold? Obviously there could be people attempting that connection without fixed tickets and DB wouldn't know about it Also how much earlier are previous trains from Aachen to Koeln? If a...

Did they employ new RPIs in order to increase their ticket checks? £400k probably covers the cost of employing about 5 RPIs

Last year I had an advance ticket mainly on the GWR network, with several interchanges, some up to an hour. The barcode ticket opened the barriers at all of them. If challenged I would have said I wanted to use station facilities outside the barriers.

I think nothing can beat the poster who is visiting every platform of every station as well as all the PSUL https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/how-difficult-is-it-to-arrive-or-leave-at-all-timetabled-platforms-5-year-project-to-achieve-this.226770/ I have also travelled on all passenger...

The Amex offer worked for me at LNER ticket offices. I haven't tried using other cards in person when an offer was available

Interesting. I recently moved to Australia and the main supermarkets seem to have introduced this in the second half of 2023. They're part of the self-checkout here, unlike Sainsburys you don't print your own barcode (though you can still weigh them in the fruit&veg section to check the price)...

I don't believe that a financial institution would release the name and address of a cardholder based merely on the say-so of a train company, that someone used that card to buy tickets and travel improperly. What the train company can do, is see all purchases made using that card at their own...

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Hi, did the ticket open the barriers at all the stations you used or did you have to be let through? As I'm no longer a UK resident I may get one of these on my next visit to the UK, but reports from earlier years seem to say they don't work at any barriers

I thought you'd include the court fee as part of the claim.