Recent content by M!T

I guess it depends what type of ticket you have. When I've had the credit card sized tickets there's one for the journey and another for your reservation, so they'd have no way of knowing you had a reserved seat unless you showed them the reservation ticket as well as the journey ticket.

The units trapped at various places between Shipley and Skipton have all gained 5xxx headcodes in the last few minutes, so hopefully some movement will take place soon. 1725611034 Unit that was on P1 at Keighley now heading towards Skipton as 5S02.

I was nosying at the webcams to watch the WCR railtour go through and realised it hadn't got past Skipton on its way back to York from Carlisle. Had a look on RTT and everything was cancelled from about 16:30 and still is. The WCR must have resersed at Skipton and gone a different way to York as...

I guess they're not overpriced if the trains are overcrowded despite the prices being a rip-off. XC's prices between Leeds and the West Country really are abhorrent though. When my brother and I took my mum to Cornwall for her 80th birthday in June last year it cost almost £500 for the three...

I see 1D26 eventually terminated at Leeds. How does anyone wanting Keighley or Skipton get home at 2:19am? It would have been much simpler for the passengers if the train had continued to its destination, but I guess the railway is run for the convenience of the railway and the passengers are...

That's my whole team at work shafted on 8 December for our Christmas meal out. I'd already started driving to work because I was fed up of Northern's lousy way of dealing with issues that cause disruption after paying £7.50 for the privilege of a journey I can make on £4.50 of petrol in half the...

The conductor appeared to be waiting to board the train at Skipton as per usual. I always board this train at the back as it affords me the fastest exit onto Park Road at Bingley when I alight. The conductor change always takes place at the back of the train too so I’m used to seeing them.

I turned up at Skipton station to travel to Bingley on the 16:59 departure to Leeds from Carlisle (2H93). It arrived on time but I was told I couldn't get on as it was cancelled and all the passengers were duly thrown off. It then departed on time, empty. A quick look on Real Time Trains...

Yes, the Class 333s on thee Airedale Line have always had male automated onboard announcements. Pretty sure it's the same with the 331s too.

Well, unsurprisingly I missed my connection at Plymouth. The silver lining is that I’m now on a GWR Castle HST. My connection would have been an IET. I’d forgotten just how beautifully these old MKIIIs ride!

On the subject of Voyagers… currently sat on 1V52 - we’re taking my mum to Cornwall for her 80th birthday. Her succinct observation: “aren’t these trains funny, there are hardly any windows next to the seats”. Also, I’ve noted the borderline criminal lack of luggage space! 1687174360 It gets...

For me, the issue with changing is that, if I'm on a long journey for which I've bought an advance purchase ticket with a reserved seat, and the first of my two trains is delayed to the extent that I miss my connection, then I'm facing the prospect of a later connection for which I don't have a...

Funnily enough I was wondering, just a few days ago, if Blackpool North still operated this abhorrent policy having experienced it myself in the early 2000s. I actually found a thread about it on here but it was closed to replies. Interesting to see a new thread on the topic and that things...

I was wondering something similar recently... On one of the strike days there was a skeleton service running on the route I use to commute. There was one train left to run by the time I'd get to the station after work and it concerned me that if this train was full, given that there were very...

I've been a train enthusiast since I was a kid and I mostly enjoy rail travel. I'd got my annual car mileage down to about 300 and had hung onto my old car for ages (it's now 23 years old) figuring buying a new one would be tantamount to ordering new furniture for the cabins on the Titanic but...