Agree that splitting doesn't appear possible to save anything & that £51.40 is the fare.

Buy a Network Card?.....it'll last you a year.

Rather.....the DfT^» (Department for Transport - about)/taxman.....

Of course, no blame attached to their daughter?.....and all down to TfL^» (Transport for London - about) to protect people from their own actions.

It would serve us right if TfL just pulled all night tube services off again. We managed without them in the past. Or people take (sole) responsibility for what they stick into their bodies - legal & not so legal.

And all sympathy ought to go to the poor driver....not the (ir)responsible adult in this story.

Sorry, but stories like this make by blood boil. No one's fault other than the deceased person. She *chose* to walk off the end of the platform, nothing imbibed or otherwise made her do it. You are still in charge of your senses, so know what you are doing.

Chiltern has/had its eyes on the ex-TPE^▸ (Trans Pennine Express) stock....

Indeed - and maybe too extractive....I wonder what rolling stock they have identified?

KI'm not sure routing easements are removed are they? Do we have any examples?

Another update from Richard Clinnick. This has been going on so long that he's now on his 3rd job since the start, and is now editor, Modern Railways...

So far treated - 7 5car 800/0s, 3 9car 800/3s, 12 5car 802/0s and 6 802/1s
800013 & 802017 currently at Eastleigh

In total, there are 93 IETs^▸ (Intercity Express Train - replacement for HSTs (manufactured by Hitachi in Kobe, Japan)), 57 owned by Agility. Of those, 28 5car 800/0s and 18 9car 800/3s still need to be treated That  leaves 36 IETs owned by Eversholt of which 9 5car 802/0s and 7 9car 802/1s have yet to be treated

[if these figures don't add up, they're Richard's not mine!]

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It'll all be down to what the DfT^» (Department for Transport - about) wants these days

Wonder why Chiltern have revoked?

Till the end of the day....

The minimum notice period, as you say in your post, is three periods (4 weeks x3), so 12 weeks or just under 3 months. Not sure why you then suggest it'll be 6 months (in practice?)

And as far as I can see in the legislation, there's nothing to prevent those three periods ending at the core period end date, rather than starting then. So it seems possible to transfer at the end of core period.

That was bad enough that it needed editing - thank you!

I thought you were asking why *this* connection wasn't offered. It's that 9 minute connection you acknowledged

The DfT^» (Department for Transport - about) do seem to be picking on the better run operations first for transfers. If they keep that up next year, I suspect GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) will be one of those selected, personally speaking