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Sounds like a plan, thanks. Think I'll play about with some advance singles and see if that works (will obviously just need to sort out Lincoln - Hykeham on the Friday separately, as aware of no BOJ on an advance)

Hi all. On Friday 24th Jan I intend to travel from Kidderminster to Hykeham (leaving as soon after 9am as possible), but wish to have a break of journey in Lincoln. When I did this journey years ago, the train from Nottingham to Lincoln missed out Hykeham so this was achievable. However, now...

Travelling to Hykeham (near Lincoln). As far as I can see, OPR is valid from 09:00. Just didn't know if selecting a different journey on Uber (to allow the correctly priced ticket) would mean that it somehow wouldn't be accepted on the 09:07.

Follow up question on this. I'm buying an OPR through Uber to get the 10% credits. However, the journey I want to do (leaving KID just after 9) doesn't show up, presumably because a minium connection time isn't followed at Birmingham. Will I be OK to travel on a different train to the one...

Perfect :) thanks for the explanation. I reckon I can get to Snow Hill for 9:46 then a quick dash to New Street for the 10:03? Hopefully that's doable otherwise it's a bit of a wait in Birmingham and wasting exploring time in Nottingham.

Hi, thanks for the replies. I selected the Sunday 26th at about 3pm - I presume the OPR is fine to use at any time on a Sunday? If I plug in KID - NOT for 9am on the Friday, it shows the 9:07 but with a return cost of £65 (again, this is the anytime fare, rather than the OPR £40.10). The...

Hi, I'm planning a journey from Kidderminster (KID) to Hykeham (HKM) next January 24th. I would like to have a few hour's break of journey in Nottingham, whilst still arriving in Hykeham about 5pm and having an off peak ticket. I have seen that the restrictions state that it is not valid on a...

Thanks all for your responses. We are travelling on a Tuesday so I don't think the €26.50 ticket is going to work (I have read that a whole day still isn't really enough for Europa-Park, so getting there late morning will be somewhat wasteful). I have seen that the train is to Ringsheim - does...

Hi all, I've looked through various sites and have got more and more confused so hopefully someone can help. In October I am travelling with my family to Saint Louis (effectively a French suburb of Basel in Switzerland). On the Tuesday of the week we're looking to travel to Europa-Park (Rust...

Hi all - looking for some help as finding conflicting info. My intended journey is Stourbridge Junction -> Rugby outward on 22/3 (around 9:30 dep) return 24/3 (around 10:00 dep). I intend to stop at Birmingham International (for the NEC for about 6 hours) on the way. There are advance tickets...

Hi. I am trying to get an advance fare from Kidderminster to Braintree for 5th November (arriving Braintree at 10:50). There seems to be no availability. I have checked and the fare setter is Chiltern. On their site you can select to get an alert, but the 5th November seems to be too soon to...

Ahh worth bearing in mind. I have now actually ended up going after all - happily it was super off peak this time (about £30 cheaper). I did think of one reason to pre-purchase tickets... seat reservations. Unless there is some way to reserve a seat you don't hold a ticket for?

Sorry my mistake - it was an Anytime return. I was confused by the NR site as it was trying to force an advance ticket (saving about 50p on a £100.60 ticket seemed hardly worth it!).

Yeh fair enough. I bought online just for ease of collection (unsure if station is manned early morning, and in a tired state could mess up on the TOD machine). On a side note, it seems strange that there is no return ticket available from Worcestershire Parkway to Croydon - it has to be...

Hi, I was due to travel fairly long distance today on a business trip, with expenses paid. I booked my tickets last night through Trainsplit (there was actually no split, it turned out as two standard singles. They are just my preferred booking engine). This morning, I have woken up to the...