Recent content by mikeg

Do they know you hold the nominee pass? Also was the nominee pass involved in your fare evasion? I'm assuming since you've moved out of your mum's address you're no longer eligible? In that case it needs handing back in ASAP.

What I don't like is it's linked to the device. This sounds like we're not in for etickets but going back to 'orrible M tickets. This must be resisted if this is the case.

In the good old days when I was a student, a friend had an expired railcard on East Coast. They were chinged for an anytime single and the railcard was withdrawn. Nothing futher. Was still an expensive lesson versus the advance railcard discounted single they already had (which of course...

Whether or not they set out to do this, this is what will probably happen and they won't care about any 'excuses'. The net effect is the same.

Agreed, someone will likely be offered these by TrainSplit as part of a split, without asking and without fully understanding. In addition, it appears there's no way to block them from being offered, leading to a negative experience with the site (or indeed any others). This really shouldn't...

The any permitted fare setter was LNER…. Presumably back in the day Northern set a more direct route to compete with them. 1750234810 I suspect you’re right. Unfortunately that’s the opposite of how a national piece of infrastructure is supposed to be run.

This goes as a lesson to us all when we try to fight for reasonable routes: The sequence of events: Following correspondence with Hull Trains one weekend when their trains either didn't call at Doncaster or were marked pick up only Southbound, I complained about the lack of options for...

Thanks. I think I found a way to book the Thameslink ticket through the LNER website, if not the app: Enter London Thameslink to Portsmouth and Southsea Get Results Edit Journey Add via Three Bridges. This seems to do the job. I may give the forum's ticket site my support, but it will...

I'm planning a return trip to Portsmouth and Southsea for the purposes of travelling via ferry to France. I've already booked Selby to London Kings Cross advance fares, but would like a degree of flexibility on the London to Portsmouth bit, so am planning to get off peak returns for these. I'm...

Or maybe the driver just forgot to change the destination blinds, seems to happen quite often around here. I've actually seen it happen when the bus is too full to board, in Fulford they change it to not in service, but again only usually when running patricularly late...

I suspect the OP should double check that there's definitely no ticket machine that accepts cash at Cannock. As if this is the case and not being able to pay by card, the OP could legitimately pay cash at the destination or interchange, or on the train (whichever opportunity came first). That...

The Pointy Haired Boss character from Dilbert didn't come from nowhere... Honestly generative AI probably has a place but most of the time Richard Stallman gets it right - it's a bull**** generator and that's the last thing you want for giving advice that could have legal consequences.

I’ve been refused to sale of valid tickets more often by booking engines not interpreting peak time restrictions properly and fake compulsory reservations on websites and apps than I have by a ticket office (precisely zero times).

I've gone on to the LNER site and can't see much difference. Either way it's still an utter pile of rubbish. Doesn't recognise some basic aspects of tivket validity, for example, shows 'any permitted' SOS as available, but not 'via Doncaster' for travel from Selby to Kings Cross via York...

I’m sure there are some in North Yorkshire, for example the 856 between Northallerton and Gayle. The weekday and Saturday service is the 73 and only goes between Northallerton and Bedale. There is then a rather more sparse service from Bedale. That’s before we consider Dalesbus and Moorsbus...