Recent content by cumbrianbill

Stagecoach website shows a price of £2.00 for Dumfries to Carlisle.

I discovered that some of their buses travel down the A9 in walking country. I booked a single from the bus-stop on the A9 at Dalwhinnie to Dalnaspidal Lodge having phoned to reserve a place and confirm a price. Price £3.70 for about 10 or 11 miles. As there was no bus-top or layby at...

Northern have cancelled all trains on the Cumbrian coast line between Barrow and Carlisle. The local News and Star website's headlines are that Northern cancel all trains, but I don't think it's that bad. Some local passengers are upset that their long planned weekends are ruined, and are...

It may be that it's just a temporary glitch like it was with the Reach form. It certainly looks like they're not bothered about individualising the forms for marketing any more. Maybe that's why the Reach ones weren't available temporarily.

Is the name of the paper on the tokens? Are you just using two JPI tokens or three? Certainly some staff spend a lot of time looking up instructions in West Cumbria, so if you say you couldn't get a JPI form because it wouldn't download then it may be accepted. As to the number of tokens .....

Yes, thanks. I've now managed to download and print a form. The unique id shows as 7fff-ffff-ffff-ffff. Maybe they're having "issues". Can't think that it's a priority at present.

Is anyone else getting a 404 error when they try to access the Northern newspaper offer forms? Despite the message that the tickets will still be valid, is there any way to get them without the pdf forms? Thanks.

I've just been to buy 10 copies of the same paper for 5 days out. Is it time to bring the community together and list prices. In the Newcastle area they have Reach tickets in the Journal which costs £1.60 and in the Chronicle which costs 80p. Guess which one I bought? The Journal does appear in...

Title explains it. Why would anyone set an advance fare to be more expensive than the anytime fare? If I post the route will the anytime fare get increased?

Any thoughts as to whether the Hadrian's Wall ranger will be valid on these diverted services as they're not Northern?

In my youth I lived in Southsea and worked in Gosport for a year. This would have been 1982 - 1983. They only collected tickets on the Gosport to Portsmouth trips. For the majority of the year I caught the ferry free of charge and then cycled back around, so saving the fare. It now seems that...

No issues Carlisle to Newcastle. It's Scotrail as far as timetabling and the display boards at Carlisle, but the station announcer has it as a Northern service, and confirmed by the crew on board. A bit of a mish mash but an ok result.

Two old tokens used today, after the ticket agent had phoned a friend to find out how to issue the ticket. I'm wondering whether I'll be able to use the tickets on the "Scotrail" service between Carlisle and Newcastle.

Advance tickets are sold out on the 08:51. If you could make the 06:52 then you can get an advance single to Crewe for £26.00 at present, and then an advance single back for £26.00 if you choose the correct train. An off-peak return Crewe to Shrewsbury is £18:80 with ATW. Hope this helps. Bill

Bromley Cross has a pedestrian crossing. Non-TVM tickets on sale on the southbound platform. There is a crossing controlled by magnetically operated gates between northbound and southbound.