After my dive holiday in February, I fell completely in love with the sea. As soon as I returned to London, I joined a dive club hoping to find more underwater opportunities. However, local training is limited to shallow pools, where the club runs two sessions a week. I started attending just to see where I stood, and within a few weeks, I managed 75m in DYNB (Dynamic with Bifins) and 50m in DNF (Dynamic No Fins). For me, that…
BR Fares, a train fare enquiry website, has now launched ticket retailing capability which allows us to buy a ticket without choosing an itinerary, just like from a ticket machine. The website is accredited to the same standard as actual ticket machines. With this functionality, buying commuter train tickets becomes much easier. For example, when the industry journey planning system goes down, or when engineering works prevent purchase of a ticket valid for ticket acceptence, or to buy some tickets…
I am trying to buy a train ticket for a journey between East Croydon and Overton today. This is a simple journey, changing at Clapham Junction and Basingstoke. However, it ended up to be a hunt between different websites because the ticket didn’t show up on my preferred split ticket retailer. The itinerary was shown but it forced me to buy 3 tickets, one for each leg, to complete the journey. I then checked the website of the train operator,…
I have been using KeyGo for a while to travel between London, Croydon and Brighton. It is a product developed by Govia Thameslink Railway to be loaded onto a The Key smartcard which enables account-based ticketing so that I don’t need to buy a ticket beforehand. In the past, it always charged me correctly, but recently I am getting more troubles than the effort saved. In the last week, I had to contact the customer service twice because of suspected…