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Does anyone know if their are any Devon > London commuters on a daily basis , either to Waterloo or Paddington? maybe some of you are...

i was standing on honiton station today and there was a couple who travel from honiton to reading every week.... today despite the delays the diversion actually made things alot easyer for them and alot of the people on the platform were for reading and padington

there main complaints were overcrowding on the fgw service ( not just today) and waiting at chard junction for sometimes upto 40 mins for a train to pass (by which time the train could have reached yeovil before the train in the opposite direction had even arrived there)

am i correct in thinking that if this line was doubled or a few more passing loops put in that this route to paddington would actually be quicker?

I have known of one person that commuted daily from Castle Cary to Paddington every day but I don't know if anyone does it from Taunton, Tiverton Parkway or Exeter.  It should in theory be possible to commute from Newton Abbot or even Plymouth but I don't think anyone would want to spend 6 hours on a train every day commuting.  I don't know why the Paddington to Penzance season ticket exists, I doubt anyone has one.

daily i cant see it happening but there will be alot monday morning and friday night second homes and all that

Given the relative price changes over the last few years, a long-distance season is worthwhile nowadays if you're doing two return trips to London in the week.

An even more bizarre example than Penzance to Paddington : one used to be listed in the Fares Manual for Newquay to Ealing Broadway with route 'Not London'.

at TVP on a weekday eve - FGW from Paddington empties with the London Working Type - Same with XC from Bristol way.

does anyone know where i can get a timetable or fair book for the whole network i have always wanted one i mean its all on the internet and is easy to look up but would love one for my collection, dont mind paying!

for the FGW network - I have all the books, find them in the ticket hall at EXD.

for the whole network when i lived up manchester you could get one with every train journey in the uk

Including Northern Ireland?

Current UK Rail Timetable:
http://www.tsoshop.co.uk/bookstore.asp?FO=1159966&Action=Book&ProductID=0117020737&From=SearchResults

Future UK Rail Timetable starting in December
http://www.tsoshop.co.uk/bookstore.asp?FO=1159966&Action=Book&ProductID=9780117038943&From=SearchResults

And so I can't be accused of bias towards one publisher over another:
http://www.railtimes.biz/index.html

Fares manuals are no longer published by ATOC. Instead you can get a CD-ROM which has every fare in Britain from TSO and is an excellent tool:
http://www.tsoshop.co.uk/bookstore.asp?FO=1159966&Action=Book&ProductID=9780117039315&From=SearchResults

i love you guys!!!!!!!!!!

sorry i know im sad you just made my day!!!!!!!!!!!!

no probs, glad to have been of service to you relex109.

The timetables in the above link, although named "UK" only cover Great Britain and do not have times of trains in Northern Ireland.

Perhaps not an ideal solution, but the timetables for Northern Ireland can be downloaded, in 'pdf' format: see http://www.translink.co.uk/downloadnirtimetables.asp  ;)

Many thanks for that piece of information

Alternatively you could not pay...

http://www.theticketcollector.co.uk/wordpress/fares-manual/