Ranger and rover tickets are some of the greatest tickets you can buy on the railways in Britain. Some of them offer superb value for money and are valid to a great range of destinations so are really useful if you want to do a day of exploring. Rail enthusiasts use them as a cheap way to travel on a large number of trains, and tourists use them as a good way of travelling between lots of different attractions. But in my opinion, information about ranger and rover tickets is quite difficult to find, and they’re not that easy to purchase either. In this blog post I want to talk about some changes I think should be made. Read more…
The Gatwick Express is a non-stop service running between London Victoria and Gatwick Airport stations. These days it runs every 15 minutes off-peak taking 30 minutes to complete the journey from the capital to the terminal. When the service started it was quite successful, offering passengers a frequent and fast journey to the airport in specially adapted rolling stock. But in my opinion, Gatwick Express is no longer the success story it used to be.
The first thing I think went wrong was when the Department for Transport chose to incorporate Gatwick Express into the south central franchise, instead of keeping it with National Express. Southern, who currently hold the south central franchise, already operate all other rail services from London Victoria to Gatwick and therefore this decision removed the need for competition between these two services. In my opinion, healthy competition would’ve led to improvements or offers within Gatwick Express to make it a good alternative to Southern’s services. Read more…
Some of you may have already read this post, its been on my old Tumblr blog. But because quite a few people have made comments about it I wanted to add it to this new website so it isnt lost. I hope you find reading it interesting. As you’re probably already aware when reading this, I am a partially sighted person. Many people ask questions about my eyes, but some of it takes quite a while to explain. In this blog post I want to tell you a little about the different eye conditions that I’ve got. Some people also ask me how they can help me and I want to cover that here as well. Read more…
