Recent content by lookapigeon

There will be some sort of private data link, either wired or cellular, if you look in the TRU news it has some interesting insights.

3 coverage between London and Birmingham, not bad. Seems the sheep of the Chilterns get good reception! Only the occasional dropout going into tunnels/cuttings etc, then again that is to be expected. I remember c.10 years ago once you left Petersfield until you came out of the other end of the...

We have some bus routes round here converted to ADL single deck electric ones from their old diesel equivalents. Smooth ride and acceleration as you'd expect for electric buses (although some drivers do not seem to understand to get a shift on, and drive at 10mph), but my god do these get...

Many thanks for the suggestions, I'll go with the super offpeak through ticket as it looks to be the most straightforward option with no ties to specific trains and I presume one can just walk up and buy it? Sadly I don't qualify for any of the railcards and thank you for the tip for the excess...

Hello, I am looking for the best value ticket for this journey please. I'm looking at heading out in the morning, and coming back as late as it will allow me to, on the same day. I'm a very infrequent rail traveller, so some gudiance would be appreciated. Is there any particular opinion on which...

I remember seeing this in our local Tesco express and they achieved this by having a sheet of preprinted yellow reduced labels and the checkout operator scanning the appropriate one. There was also a notice next to the baked goods that went up after the appropriate time to advise they were...

I wouldn't say it was a network operator (or whoever supplies their connectivity) failure per se, but perhaps a config change or software update that broke it. It also makes sense why they couldn't accept gift cards as no doubt this relies on realtime deduction of the balance in the central...

It's because contactless seems to require 100% online authorisation in most cases these days. It's not a problem with the comms links are working. Back when it was introduced and the max limit was £10/25 it was a case of the terminal/card deciding the risk collectively whether to go online and...

In my interactions with TFL they seem to do fairly well. The issues you describe I think it's partly to do with the fragmentation of private companies -everyone is doing their own thing, and as such inconsistencies arrive. The problem is also the cost of staffing the offices to have people...

I'm not surprised, they must be getting battered with the amount of usage. The flushers are also all electronic and the feed of water is not particularly powerful. Why is this country so slow in doing building work, I mean blocks of apartments get thrown up quicker in the amount of time it...

I always think the seats they had on the SWT slam door trains were the best for comfort. Everything's been downhill since.

Perhaps this is for another thread, but I wonder where the negative perception of the bus comes from especially in the UK? Where you saw the bunch of 20-somethings, was it in in London where the bus services are under the auspices of TFL and are cheap/relatively frequent, or was it somewhere it...

Unethical but not tap in is probably what most people have done. As I was going to Waterloo it shall be interesting to see how the TFL backend copes with my journey of tapping in at Surbiton, and then another entry tap at Clapham Junction and then an exit at Waterloo. On the way back, once I...

After yesterday's fun times trying to get from Surbiton to Waterloo, three words I can use are "mileage may vary". The information and signposting to passengers is dreadful. There is no clear signage on each bus as to where which service goes. There is unreasonable menace on the signage...

Is yours a smaller/centrally located store? Perhaps they're trying the Tesco Express type model in terms of having smaller packs but at higher margins. The one that's (if you excuse the pun) rare as hen's teeth is the box of 15 eggs. They've rarely found in Aldi these days and the 12 or 6 is...