Recent content by HughT

The Great Northern website is quite definite that "Buses will replace trains between Royston and Cambridge" (and presumably in the other direction as well...). But that's probably a standard message for that line closure. And it certainly doesn't help when you're then instructed to check the...

Your proposed route includes a significant amount of mileage within Zone 1 (not that the amount is a factor in itself). So no fare that requires you to avoid Zone 1 would be valid

It's a right pain from Cambridge - if (as is far from unusual) a traveller wants to go to Liverpool St and return from King's X (for example). If only you could buy the ticket you want without having to attach it to a specific itinerary that most (but not all) journey planners don't offer, even...

Hence the ghastly yellow barriers erected a year or so ago...

The absence of a footbridge at the south end of Cambridge station makes things particularly bad. Most folk heading to London head for the south end of the relevant platform, so if a train is replatformed across the other side of the station (as in this morning's case with the 0922) it's a...

Routeing map NB shows that travelling via Sheffield is valid. Just don't travel via Derby!

But beware - CBG fares to "London Thameslink" are more expensive than to "London Terminals". Not a lot, but...

The GN website is simply wrong. The ticket's sold to the generic "London Terminals", and KGX us definitely one of those! Plus GN don't operate to St Pancras. Possible a copy/paste error from a Thameslink original?

Spotted this when following up on another post on the Forum. I believe that internal guidance on travelling with Advance Tickets say, inter alia, that LNER require holders of First Advances to pay a £5 supplement to use their lounges. But LNER themselves contradict this. First Advance ticket...

Unless I'm mistaken (in which case I'm confident that someone will quickly correct me!), the only valid routes between Peterborough and Lincoln are via (1) Spalding, or (2) Grantham and Newark, ECML (NOT via Nottingham). Sorry.

You would need access to earlier timetables to make total sense of this. But I certainly certainly remember Dovey Junction being used for connections. The current arrangement is a relatively new thing (well, it depends on one's age, I suppose...).

Sorry, can't help!

No. Bus use confined to Norwich, (and, to a rather more limited extent) Ipswich and Bury St Edmunds.

This Forum's ticketing site offers a 1st Adv Single on Mon 25 Sept for £162.30 (incl £25 share of the saving), splitting at Newcastle.

You're not missing anything. LNER choose to make their tickets available in advance of the general window, but they sell those tickets with the caveat that the times might change, or that the trains might not even run. Whilst it's notionally at the passenger's risk that you agree to these...