Also an overtime ban Sunday 18 December - 2 January inclusive.

Extremely bad news today.  The last London bound train via GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) leaves Exeter at 16.15.  Anyone looking to escape the south west, would have a very circuitous route of changing at Westbury and again at Sailsbury.

The Devon Day Ranger now has a B3 restriction - not valid between 0429 and 0900.

Therefore the train you intend to use it on must depart Tiverton at or after 0900.

You must be in possession of a ticket or series of tickets for the entirety of your journey before you depart your origin station if that station is part of the penalty fare scheme.  If that is not possible, you must be in posession of any extra ticket/s before the validity of any held tickets expires.

You'll be very hard pressed to buy a ticket onboard a Crosscountry train; very, very few XC^▸ (Cross Country Trains (franchise)) train managers bother with revenue duties.

And don't forget, if using a combination of tickets where one of them is a season/period/ranger or rover, the train does NOT have to stop at the splitting station.

9th now confirmed as a full RMT^▸ (National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers) strike.

RMT^▸ (National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers) call off strike on Thursday 3 November, 5th and 7th to go ahead as planned.

Traditionally, peak restrictions have been lifted across the rail network during "Christmas week".  GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) went through a few years of being Scrooge and not participating in this, but are again this year.  As Christmas Day is a Sunday, the off peak easement has been brought forward to the Friday too.

Specifically:

Up to and including Thursday 22 December: normal ticket restrictions apply
Friday 23 December: Off Peak valid all day on GWR fares; Super Off Peak restrictions apply
Saturday 24 December - Monday 2 January: no ticket restrictions.  Weekend First available
From Tuesday 3 January: normal ticket restrictions apply

Usual caveat emptor - Other TOCs^▸ (Train Operating Company) may have different restrictions in price.  Tickets bought from a TVM^▸ (Ticket Vending Machine) will not automatically offer [super] off peak before 09.30.

"The Railway" has relied too much on income up front in terms of season tickets as it chronically leaks the potential turn up and go income.

It is not possible to charge everyone who travels by train for the journey they are making and this has been seen as a fair price to pay so a blind eye has been turned to it for too long.

As an aside, if you use GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway), at the top there is an Accessibility Tools link that allows the user to alter the site layout and saves those preferences for every visit (so long as cookies are accepted and kept).  This includes zoom level and colours.  You'll probably find other websites have the same.

As per most 'new articles' others got there first.  Ian Visits wrote about this back on 4 October

TfL^» (Transport for London - about) do not accept national rail smart tickets, with the exception of Travelcards on smartcards.  Therefore the Any Permitted cross London fare cannot be offered.

Network Rail are expecting Paddington to be closed for the WHOLE DAY.  This is not the day to close a major terminus that serves Windsor.  

Strikes have been postponed due to today's events.

1 tph Paddington - Cardiff (route undefined)
1 tph Paddington - Bristol PW^▸ (Permanent Way)
1 tph Paddington - Bristol TM^‡(resolve) every other train on to Plymouth
1 tph Bristol - Exeter or Plymouth (suggests alternation between a PAD - PLY^» (Plymouth - next trains) and a BRI - EXD^» (Exeter St Davids - next trains))
1 tph Cardiff - Bath
1 tph Reading - Basingstoke
1 tph Marlow - Maidenhead
1 tph Reading - Didcot PW
2 tph Slough - Windsor
2 tph Henley - Twyford

Westbury, Gloucester and all Cornish signalboxes will be closed

What they don't mention is that TfL^» (Transport for London - about) split ticketing does not work the same as rail split ticketing.
You need to leave the station long enough to convince the system that you are making 2 separate journeys, or use 2 different payment methods, as the system automatically joins up journeys to charge a fare.
A staight forwards out and back in using the same payment method will be counted as a continuous single journey.

Confirmed today the victim died at the scene.