If you want to travel from St Pancras International to Bat & Ball, one option that National Rail Enquiries suggests is that you change trains at London Blackfriars. However, the following are typically suggested itineraries: – In both examples, only … Continue reading →
Our Bat & Ball correspondent, Keith Alderman, has now retired. However, when Thameslink allow him, he’s making good use of his Senior Railcard!
Delay Repay Claims: total 1 January 2019 to 30 September 2019 inclusive = £53.20
(Southeastern £25.10, Southern £2.00, South Western Railway £6.62, Thameslink £9.10, Virgin £10.38).
Three claims outstanding.
This month’s delays: total 81 minutes, Southeastern 74, Thameslink 7
Continue reading →Here is the Agenda for next week’s Annual General Meeting.
There is plenty to talk about, including the prospects for future rail services now that the re-franchising exercise has been abandoned and now that the introduction of the new Maidstone East to Cambridge service has been delayed again.
Sir Michael Fallon MP is speaking as well as the rail companies, so we hope that you will join us at the meeting.
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Our Bat & Ball correspondent, Keith Alderman, has now retired. However, when Thameslink allow him, he’s making good use of his Senior Railcard!
Delay Repay Claims: total 1 January 2019 to 31 August 2019 inclusive = £53.20
(Southeastern £25.10, Southern £2.00, South Western Railway £6.62, Thameslink £9.10, Virgin £10.38).
This month’s delays: total 120 minutes, Southeastern 74, Thameslink 46.
Continue reading →I want to travel from Bat & Ball to York next month. The best fares I was quoted were £92.05 to York and £40.70 for the return journey, a total of £132.75. However Advance Singles using Grand Central’s services from … Continue reading →
The SRTA has been reviewing Southeastern’s proposals for changes to the December 2019 timetable.
We welcome the agreement to assist with connections at Swanley for Darenth Valley line users. That’s how a joined-up railway should work.
However, SRTA has a significant concern with one of the proposed timetable changes. This concerns the change to the stopping services, 1726 from Charing Cross and 1739 from Cannon Street. It appears to us that the proposal totally ignores the interests of the large number of passengers who travel from Cannon Street to Chelsfield and beyond.
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