2 is vital. But completely lost sight of now. I relied on it many a time (for equivalents elsewhere). Very peeved when it fell over with privatisation. (View Post)

The other difference between TfL, and real railway travel, is that in TfL you don't need to say where you are going (on the whole), just a band/zone if that, and you go in and out via automatic … (View Post)

Just thinking about travelling from Scotland to London from about 1965 to the end of BR. In other words, from almost the first Deltics to HST to IC225, which came in a few years before privatisation.… (View Post)

And, also, someone has to do the executing. Do we want those folk to get a frisson (to put it politely) or PTSD? (View Post)

And one of the biggest issues has been the lack of a proper unified ticketing system. Someone uised to a simple daily trip on TfL has no ****ing idea what it is like on the rest of the [edit] UK netw… (View Post)