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This morning I missed my train from London to Liverpool. The price of another ticket, when I checked, was a hundred and fifty quid. A bus was thirty. gently caress trains.
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Gat posted:The national rail website is not smart enough to split tickets like you have done, though it is smart enough to offer two singles if its cheaper than a return ticket. From playing with it for a few minutes, it seems that it only splits the ticket once as well. For a long journey you *might* be better off splitting it twice, I don't know.
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May 23, 2012 17:41
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:Good news Buy some shares then?
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Aug 14, 2012 13:47
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Iohannes posted:I wasn't aware that the average inflation rate of the last 5 years was 20%. At an average rate of closer to the CPI 3% it would take over 33 years for inflation alone to be the cause of the doubling in price of Freddos. And since Freddos were not available between 1979 and 1994, that's clearly not the case. Actually at 3% it would take 24 years to double in price. But lets not quibble about actual maths.
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Jan 25, 2013 10:11
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Bozza posted:Speaking of electrification, the first headspans are up in Reading EMU depot and the cantilever/portal structures elsewhere are starting to appear locally. Great Western electrification starts here! Has there been a round of promotions or are you the only one? Just because a friend of mine who works for network rail also just got promoted ARE YOU HIM?
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Mar 14, 2013 11:42
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Can anyone tell me why air con wasn't introduced as standard on the tube as the trains were replaced? I'm talking about the jubilee and Victoria lines here mainly...
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Jul 23, 2013 09:15
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What about the Chelsea-Hackney line (aka the hipster express)? Is this predicted to not happen until after 2021, or not ever?
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Dec 5, 2013 15:08
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I was on the train home from work last night, fairly late (I believe it was the 9:10 from Farringdon to Kentish Town), and got on the front carriage. Sat down, then looked around. There were two other people in the carriage with me, one guy with his face covered - hood, bandana across his face - who looked a bit like a protestor and was acting kinda shifty, and another normal looking guy. The face-covered guy then spent the next two stops scratching his signs into the windows, and graffing all the bits of the train that weren't window. The normal guy got off at St Pancras. Train terminated at Kentish Town, where I got off and told the lady at the station exactly what had happened, who walked off to 'let the boys know'. I felt guilty for not saying anything on the train, but I was honestly pretty scared as well as tired, and didn't like the idea of aggravating someone with no one else to witness it. Is there any way I can find out what happened as a result? I continued going home after alerting the Customer Service lady, so didn't see any fallout. tl;dr: I felt loving awkward for 10 mins while a guy scratched and graffed up the inside of a train in front of me. Told the authorities, then left.
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Jan 17, 2014 12:56
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Hezzy posted:In future you can text 61016 which is the British Transport Police. You can also email 61016@btp.pnn.police.uk. They're usually pretty snappy in their response, if you let them know quick enough they quite often meet trains in and apprehend the person That's awesome to know. Unfortunately I've lost my phone so wouldn't have been able to do that, on the other hand if it happens again I'll be straight on it.
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Jan 18, 2014 12:50
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Cerv posted:that was painful to read I'm not hugely against HS2 - it's important to build infrastructure and we can't predict how behavioural patterns will change in the future, so it's best to keep ahead of the game. However, the first stage of this massive project will... reduce travel time to/from Birmingham from 1h 20m to what, 40 mins? Granted, it's the first step in a much bigger project (and the main benefits will be felt by those travelling from Scotland by train) but it still seems like a huge todo about very little. Also, the northeners can fly to Europe. God knows, at the rate that train fares are going up, by the time HS2 is complete it'll be both faster AND cheaper to fly from Newcastle/Manchester/Leeds than it will be to get the train.
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Feb 21, 2014 13:28
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Bozza posted:^^^^ edit - also see Cervs last bit about city to city travel, one of rails biggest selling points ^^^^ Well poo poo, if anyone had actually publicised that then I wouldn't have had these misconceptions for so long.
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Feb 21, 2014 15:01
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:"December 20th 2014 - January 2018, Thameslink route services will not call at London Bridge" Oh gently caress that. I'm moving to London Bridge in Sept and work in Farringdon, and was going to take the Thameslink to work. Now I'm forced to take my life into my own hands and cycle.
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Mar 27, 2014 17:47
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Don't hold your breath: "TFL bakerloo extension page posted:If funding is identified, construction could start as early as 2023 (subject to the necessary powers) and the extension could open as early as 2030.
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Oct 1, 2014 11:49
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My god I hate the british rail system. I forgot my railcard on Saturday for a London->Nottingham jaunt. I had prebooked my ticket, so had to get the young persons ticket (£38, approx. £55ish without the rail card). Of course, when I get near Nottingham the inspector comes around, and nicks me for not having my railcard. I got fined £130 for this - what the actual gently caress. On the way home on Sunday morning, I had the luxury, nay the privilege, of sitting on the floor inbetween carriages because there weren't enough seats. gently caress this country. Also, does anyone know how I can reclaim the money for the ticket because I actually do have a railcard?
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May 26, 2015 16:38
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OwlFancier posted:Raise a fuss with the operating company would be a good start. The conductor gave me the choice of buying a super expensive ticket that apparently I can claim back (she quoted some rule that said I get to do that once, ever), or a cheaper £90 option that I could definitely not claim back.
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May 26, 2015 16:57
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