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9286  Journey by Journey / London to Reading / Re: Broken down train at Hanwell 03/05 on: May 11, 2013, 20:57:26
Very true.

This is the kind of info FGW (First Great Western) twitter should have been putting out in answer to complaints/suggsstions on there that those teains could have stopped. Difficult maybe to get into 140 characters, but the gist could have been put out.

Just a thought, Ollie....
9287  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: May 2013 Timetables on: May 11, 2013, 20:17:23
Various problems with pax picking up post-dated Tts and not realising they weren't current & complaining when services shown didn't run!

So if you want them in advance, ask at the info points or ticket office or consult the website. Most TOCs (Train Operating Company) are doing this now
9288  All across the Great Western territory / Fare's Fair / Re: Plymouth - Paddington rtn at the weekend on: May 10, 2013, 16:45:57
No point in looking before the ADvances are on sale - but the cheapest will certainly be splitting at Exeter onto SWT (South West Trains) to Waterloo - if you don't mind the length of journey!
9289  All across the Great Western territory / Fare's Fair / Re: Plymouth - Paddington rtn at the weekend on: May 10, 2013, 13:56:50
If I remember correctly, FGW (First Great Western) has only released Advances to the last weekend in July so far.

They tweet out the new date every time more tickets are released for later dates. Either follow them, or you'll have to keep checking back.
9290  Journey by Journey / Chiltern Railways services / Re: FGW on Chiltern line on: May 09, 2013, 12:30:33
165s...
9291  Journey by Journey / Chiltern Railways services / Re: Car Parking now bookable on Chiltern Trains app on: May 09, 2013, 12:30:11
I think you're alone in that thinking - or pretty much so.
9292  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Reading Station improvements on: May 08, 2013, 11:02:24
The passenger transfer deck will be regarded in the evacuation strategy as a "Place of Relative Safety"

Agreed - until they put retail units up there....
9293  All across the Great Western territory / Fare's Fair / Re: FGW Rover and Ranger price increases from May 19th 2013 on: May 03, 2013, 14:41:48
indeed, its a rise equal to (or in excess of!) the inflation rate at the time.
9294  All across the Great Western territory / Fare's Fair / Re: Egham to Birmingham worth splitting? on: May 03, 2013, 14:40:45
You can cut that even further by getting a Chiltern-only Anytime return from Banbury-Birmingham for ^13
9295  All across the Great Western territory / Fare's Fair / Re: FGW Rover and Ranger price increases from May 19th 2013 on: May 03, 2013, 12:22:10
Sorry - but we're referencing rises in the cost of fares, not the annual rate of inflation.

Yes, the RPI (Revenue Protection Inspector (or Retail Price Index, depending on the context)) represents the rise in costs over a year, but when referring to ticket price rises, they can rise up to three times a year. There is no correlation between the two, except that one is being used as a basis for ONE rise.
9296  All across the Great Western territory / Fare's Fair / Re: TVM Collection - Bank Card Blunder on: May 03, 2013, 10:38:04
I guess an individual TOC (Train Operating Company) can turn this facility off if they choose...
9297  Journey by Journey / Chiltern Railways services / Re: Car Parking now bookable on Chiltern Trains app on: May 03, 2013, 10:36:20
Presumably, use after you've parked?....
9298  All across the Great Western territory / Fare's Fair / Re: FGW Rover and Ranger price increases from May 19th 2013 on: May 03, 2013, 10:34:52
I feel I'm justified in complaining when a product I regularly use sees a large price increase. Particularly when the company offering that product had made a commitment just 4 months previously to increase its unregulated products by the same amount as its regulated ones. Of course FGW (First Great Western) made no claim about how long that commitment would be in place, but when they are positively spinning unregulated fares price increases linked to a formula that is only applied once every twelve months, then I feel it is disingenuous to ignore that commitment 4 months later simply because they can.

I think you're being just as disingeneous. Nowhere did FGW state that the rises on unregulated fares were being tied to RPI (Revenue Protection Inspector (or Retail Price Index, depending on the context))+1% for any more than that one fare round in January.
Just because the regulated fares only go up once a year (but they don't have to - the TOCs (Train Operating Company) *choose* to use the whole rise in January, but *could* easily spread it out across the other two rise dates if they wished), doesn't say anywhere that unregulated fares only go up once a year. But that's the only indication you've seen. If it isn't show me please?
9299  All across the Great Western territory / Fare's Fair / Re: TVM Collection - Bank Card Blunder on: May 03, 2013, 10:28:51
If you book & collect with/from the same TOC (Train Operating Company), it will usually offer you the tickets by simply inserting the payment card. Cross TOC bookings / collections don't tend to do this. If you book tickets with more than one reference, it asks initially for the first reference, but again, colldection of tickets on the other reference simply needs the payment card.

I thought this was general knowledge, hence not posting it till now
9300  All across the Great Western territory / Buses and other ways to travel / Re: What bus passengers want ... on: May 01, 2013, 15:23:07
http://email.passengerfocus.org.uk/passengerfocuslz/lz.aspx?p1=054701S406209&CC=&w=254&cID=0&cValue=1

But with the vagaries of road delays, I can't see a proper solution. Easier with trains....
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