The signalmans' air raid shelter at STEAM?

@GWRHelp have advised someone that Wednesday [30th] is a normal day and all usual peak restrictions apply.

Not very helpful!

GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway)'s policy is to allow travel with the booking conformation and for you to collect your tickets at the next available opportunity.

Next available opportunity = a connecting station / your destination.
(what it doesn't mean is your can walk out the network without your tickets, nor does it mean that if you have return tickets to collect that you don't bother)

It is also worth noting that TODs can be collected using any bank card, not just the one they were booked with.

And incidentally the Avantix^▸ (Ticket Issuing System used on board trains) replacement for next year has the specification of printing TOD.

More specifically,


Spending review and autumn statement 2015

It's cut and paste journalism.

It depends on the council, for example Devon CC issue companion passes but Plymouth and Torbay don't (or at least that was the situation over a year ago).

ooh matron!

In response to this twitter conversation from a passenger regarding the unavailability of the Tarka^▸ (Line from Barnstaple to Exeter) Line Rover, despite it's advertisement, shows the confusion between NRE^‡(resolve), GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway), @GWRHelp, and its staff.

The Tarka Line Rover does not exist as a separate rover ticket, but is simply a CDR^▸ (Off Peak Day Return [ticket type] (formerly 'Cheap Day')) Barnstaple - Exeter St David's (or vice versa) that acts a rover over that route, which the passenger got but does not understand it is a return ticket with "rover powers" 

This is a fallacy of having a so called rover ticket advertised as a separate entity but retailed as a 'normal' ticket.

I believe other so called rover GWR south west branch rovers are the same.

And today, following the weekend closure, there have been signalling problems.
More specifically Crediton box cannot clear CN2.

Not only that but there is a very low speed restriction (5mph!) over the area, which is causing huge delays.

The computers are on strike then.  Maybe they're after a Windows 10 rise.

OT; he's not the only one who does this.

2C41 EXD^» (Exeter St Davids - next trains)-PAR which arrives at PLY^» (Plymouth - next trains) at 07.40 is usually run as a 153, which is generally plenty of capacity.

Incidentally it's possible to buy a 1st advance single GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) only from Barnstaple - Bristol TM^‡(resolve) on 2 trains which don't have 1st class provision (it might not be now if the passengers actually complained like advised).

But as the fare was less than the standard fare, I'm not sure how the usual first-standard difference compensation would pan out!