Recent content by chrish2

The placement, size and other aspects of the main boards feels odd and makes them feel more downgrade than a upgrade. Suspect some supplier had some spare and managed to flog them to Euston. They are absolutely not designed for the space. As some posters have said there is flow issues near the...

I wonder if first been in a shorter space along with the knowledge that the tickets are likely much more expensive has resulted in an improvement in some areas of the service. I know in the virgin days they did look out for passengers joining but just the distance they sometime have to walk may...

Thank you, that makes sense.

When I buy an off-peak return ticket as either Atherton or Walkden to London Euston it is always the same price as Manchester (or Wigan) to London Euston. It has the extra perk of been able to route via either Manchester or Wigan (which I often take advantage of). What I don't fully understand...

I don't know what the seat count difference is but if I was a pre booked SP customer I would be very miffed about been told to sit in Standard in this situation.

The ability for the public to follow announcements for their own benefit really does stagger me. Advice such as closing the window blinds to prevent heating up whilst stranded over the PA are usually ignored until a member staff walks down asking the people sat at the windows to close them.

This evening had a pleasant journey up to Manchester, only later to be delayed due to late running connection run by Northen. It was the return leg of a off-peak return though to a local station (Atherton). The cost of the "leg" was therefore (94.50/2) + 25 = £72.25. Am I within my rights for...

Just seen Avanti West Coast put out a tweet about a new reduced service. It really is cut down to the bone. https://twitter.com/AvantiWestCoast/status/1418512718026399744 https://www.avantiwestcoast.co.uk/travel-information/timetables Just pulled out the headlines Birmingham Two trains per...

Just looked up the off-peak return price for Glasgow to Euston its £108.50, again surprised it's only £14 more ... might consider booking as that and start late / break journey in some fashion to later in the month make a leisure trip to Glasgow! Back to the topic at hand The multiplier is in...

I tried out Standard Premium (my brain hurts just thinking about those two words next to each other) having got to my connecting station early and chancing it with a service reported as "full due to covid regulation". This was a Glasgow service to Euston and I boarded at Wigan. At £25 from Wigan...

I'm needing to travel this week on Avanti but struggling to find a seat on a direct off-peak! After a bit of trial and error I found that the presence of an advance fair appears to indicate free seats. With this methodology the earliest bookable direct off-peak arrival to London from Wigan North...

Anecdotally my recent journey on the AWC backs that up, 20 mins delay on route recovered to 13 mins delay. Of course there may be factors at play that prevented this but with no calls after Crew (96 mins from Eustion) in the past there was a chance to fully recover the delay (and you tend to...

I'm pretty savvy but for example on Friday I was travelling 200 miles, knew the timetable for the day and made a decision to stay an extra 2 hours for some much needed post work drinks. I did not check the status of the railway when I made the decision to change my plans and I assume many less...

Thanks, I was trying to work out how they spin that as an advantage and guess it's that its a cut for those who buy one way walk up fares. Of course 50% would have been what the public would have instinctively thought would be fair. Out of curiosity I wondered how this squares with their...

Virgin use to allow booking an Advanced ticket and an "OFF PEAK SINGLE (ONLINE)" in the same transaction. The cost of the "OFF PEAK SINGLE (ONLINE)" was half an off peak return ticket and allowed flexibility on one of the legs of the journey. If in the booking tool you picked two of these...