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Also worth noting break of journey is permitted on these tickets - so if you wanted to visit various places along the line, you could get e.g. a Bletchley-Bedford single and only have to pay £1 so long as you keep travelling in that direction.

I'm assuming this was in the London Contactless area? If so - you'll be charged a maximum fare to that card (currently £9.40 in most cases) and it'll have a flag against the card. 3 flags on a card and it'll be permanently blocked from being usable for London-area contactless travel.

Yes - you should have no issues asking a retailer to do that in theory - subject to a change fee of no more than £10 though some retailers charge less - even if you can’t self serve it, so long as the route is the same (in practice your experience might differ dependent on which one you use -...

I'm sure someone will come along and confirm if there are any different arrangements in NL, but on the German side you can definitely use 'any train on any reasonable route' to complete your journey (though you would have to stick with the same types of train, i.e. you couldn't decide to use an...

Yes, I can't really beat what you've already found; peak travel from Bedford can get pricey! Per this example (note you'll need to click 'Fastest' to surface the times you want as the journey planner considers it best value to wait until after 10am!) they could probably save a few pounds on the...

Need a bit more information - how often do they travel in and do they regularly go elsewhere in London other than their workplace in Canary Wharf?

Hopefully this problem won't exist for too much longer - the older S&B machines seem to (very slowly) be being upgraded to collect tickets using a Contactless card/Apple Pay. Greater Anglia's machines have recently started offering this.

I'm assuming you're wondering about a Flix equivalent to the DB CityTicket add-on? Flixtrain (like Flixbus) is strictly point-to-point, no zonal addons included.

Particularly as you've got a while before travel, it would be worth asking Stena if they'd be able to swap you onto a SailRail fare before looking at purchasing additional tickets, so you'd then only need tickets to/from London - I'm aware of others that have had success with this in the past.

For pedantry - bus ticketing also is moving towards Aztec codes - the MCard app now displays two Aztec codes (you're right, the bus one used to be a QR code going back a few years I think) for bus and train, however they have different payload sizes.

Unfortunately not, for tickets not purchased via TS in the first place - as you correctly state, there are costs involved with offering seat reservations functionality, so it's not something that's able to be offered free of charge as a wider service.

An interesting one - if someone travels from, say, Harrogate to London via York rather than via Leeds (both valid routes) on a flexible ticket due to disruption via the former, what (if any) Delay Repay is due if that person decides that, as they’re in York anyway it would be good to pop into...

@stuartmoss and I ended up on the same 158 from Leeds earlier - though neither of us were quite sure enough of the other’s identity to actually say hello until it was too late and they had already alighted

Unfortunately - flying is the comparison I’d focus on, capacity-constrained Lumo aside. A week out, I can get an EasyJet flight from Luton reliably under £50. If I’m just going away for a weekend and only needing a backpack, it’s both quicker and significantly cheaper. The Haymarket solution...

Assuming you're travelling with European Sleeper - there's only one sleeper car (usually at the front of the consist eastbound, though not always), which is rather old but has a certain amount of charm to it! Rooms are allocated, you can't choose a specific one. My main advice is that if you...

You're already in Z6 at Elstree & Borehamwood, so that'll likely be priced the same as a Z4-6 single. In any case, as a rule of thumb you can't leave the Zonal area on (most) point-to-point tickets where the start and destination (be it named station or zone set) are within it. (there are a very...

Bedford isn't so bad - doubling back via Wixams is probably going to be broadly equivalent as now with overall times. Wellingborough/Kettering combined to Leicester and beyond is probably a large enough flow that cutting all direct services would be problematic. I can see a scenario in reality...

If they did that, a wider recast of service patterns on the MML would be needed as Wellingborough - Leicester via Wixams would not be seen as acceptable.

Can we move any further discussion related to Universal Bedford's potential build to a thread in Speculative Discussion please. Back on topic - I was disappointed to see yesterday that EMR had reverted to the practice they trialled at the end of last year of all Connect services being 4-car...

According to Railcam (on the camera pages when logged in):