I took a trip on a 38 from Piccadilly to Victoria yesterday afternoon. Unusually, the conductor worked like a Trojan during the trip, checking fares, calling out stops (with a lot of additional information, too) as well as warnings. It was a pleasure to see. My query, though, concerns Oyster. I paid by Oyster Prepay and at Victoria I left the bus and went straight into the Underground...

17000 pages in all according to the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4289139.stm http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200405/cmbills/062/2005062.htm http://billdocuments.crossrail.co.uk -- Michael Parry 'The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret'

I reckon One must be hard to beat. They have: 317/1 - bluey-purple (and are there still any LTS-liveried ones?) 317/6 - Cream/Red/Brown/Blue and One new livery 317/7 - Stansted Express (with most, but not all, units having the composite coach painted up for a financial services company); One new livery 315 - fGE; Intalink; Crimestoppers/BTP; family railcard; dirty grey undercoat 321 - fGE

My wife reports a complete fiasco of service today. Any one know what went on? Thanks, Martin.

I have an Annual Bus Pass which is due to expire soon, with a small amount of PrePay for my casual Underground use. I also had an Incomplete Journey, which 4 trips to Underground ticket offices failed to resolve, so I had my Oyster Card replaced as 'Failed' yesterday. There is also an intriguing problem with the PrePay on both the old and the new cards:- I am being charged SFP (£0.00) for my...

I'm loving this one: the sallow, onion-faced c*nt's drunk on power, not to mention white wine when this happened: http://today.reuters.co.uk/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-0 2-11T132847Z_01_HOP148445_RTRUKOC_0_BRITAIN-LIVINGSTONE.xml Please let me know if you hear anything about it on the BBC: I saw nothing on BBC TV London News (Ken Is Buddha to them of course) ROBBIE

Heard a report on LBC last night that Clapham Junction got closed due to a lighting failure on the platforms - then nothing more. Was it just a brief incident not worthy of anything else, or did they just get it wrong?

Possibly off-topic but i see Christian Wolmar has written about a different subject on his website this month: http://www.christianwolmar.co.uk/online/february05.shtml Online column :: February 2005 4x4 vehicles are just plain daft There is a war rumbling on the city streets, between 4 x4 owners and the

In another thread buried deep in uk.transport.london, someone says: ... It is stated in the TfL Board agenda papers for 9/2/05 that the DfT have decreed that TfL zonal fares will apply to all NR journeys within the zonal area by 2007. Implementation will be on a TOC by TOC basis between now and 2007. Pre-pay will be part of the roll out of this policy.

Dear All I hope I've come to the right place to ask this question. I was commenting with a colleague recently how she (living in Sevenoaks) takes a similar amount of time as me (in Raynes Park) to get into work (we're based in Monument). It made me wonder if anyone has re-designed a London travel map in terms of time frame of reference - i.e. shortest time taken to get to a major London

"Jason" wrote in message ... I've been having a look at the National Fares Manual after someone posted a URL for it. I've come across information about "INTERAVAILABILITY OF RAIL/LU TICKETS ON PARALLEL ROUTES". See http://www.atoc.org/traveltrade/manuals/nfm/sectionl.pdf

Having had several journeys to and from work on these, I wonder if anyone else agrees with my observations: - These trains have some of the most uncomfortable seating I have ever experienced, certainly the worst of any London-area commuter train. There is virtually no padding in the seat whatsoever, and the back itself is curiously upright and somewhat oddly shaped - as if the lumbar...

There's plenty of this at Tube stations now. I picked up two leaflets, one about capping itself and another about Oyster in general. One point of interest was that in reference to fares between stations in zones 2-6, "some journeys have been defined as requiring travel via Zone 1 and will be charged and capped accordingly, irrespective of the actual route taken". I wonder what journeys...

There's a real onslaught of engineering work this weekend - Jubilee Kingsbury to Waterloo, Met Harrow to Aldgate, DLR Westferry/Poplar to Mudchute, northbound Northern Bank branch, High St Kensington on Sunday morning. Some of these disruptions say valid tickets will be accepted on local bus services - good. However, that puts Prepay users at somewhat of a disadvantage as unless some...

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Did anyone see that crumbled car situated in the bus lane just under the bridge along the Archway Road northbound? What the hell happened?!

Walked up from northern line this morning past the WAGN platforms and saw a train painted in the colours of a TOC I've never heard of before. Inta-something , forget the last part. Had a puce green and yellow colour scheme (though had WAGN diagrams on the inside). Anyone know where this train may have ventured from? B2003

I was coming home earlier this evening on a 109, which drew up into a stop behind a no 50. I was in the front upstairs, and so noticed the number-plate on the 50, which was "WLT xxx" (can't remember the numbers). I assume they are recycling numbers from the old Routemasters? -- "Mrs Redboots" ...

Hi, I've finally got round to putting a few of my pics on the Internet. There's not many online at the moment (I know it's nowhere near as extensive as the photo galleries some of you have!), but there's a few of inside Stratford LUL depot that might interest you at: http://www.michaelpead.co.uk/c361326_49.html (and an interesting shot of White City station!). There's also a few other...