UK Rail and Eurostar FAQs

[stut]

As there is some crossover between the UK/Ireland (and other destination) fora and this one, I thought I'd post a couple of links to existing railway FAQs from over there:

The UK & Ireland rail FAQ - read this first if you have any questions about rail travel in the UK & Ireland including:

• Q. How do I buy domestic UK train tickets?
• Q. How do I get cheap UK train tickets?
• Q. How do I buy train tickets from abroad?
• Q. Is First Class worth it?
• Q. How reliable are trains in the UK?
• Q. How do I find train times and updates for the UK?
• Q. What happens if my train is delayed?
• Q. What are the sleeper services like?
• UK Rail Glossary

The Eurostar FAQ - everything you'll need to know about travelling to Europe (ahem) sur le Euro-Etoile, courtesy of UK flyer.

Hope this is of some use to readers of this excellent new forum!

[layz]

Liverpool Street - I often collect tickets from the machines in the station. Although they're not technically FastTicket machines they do support ticket on departure and will accept an online/telesales booking reference.

Some other stations have the same type of machine but don't have ticket on departure enabled. This used to be the case with Waterloo but I'm not sure now.

[stut]

Yes, they've rolled that out in a number of additional ticket machines up and down the country now - First Capital Connect, for example, allow you to collect tickets at most of their TVMs, even in small suburban stations.

A lot more stations allow pick-up from a ticket window now, too.

I've updated the FAQ - thanks for the input!