Recent content by Rob R

Well yesterday the Northern app actually worked as expected. I was supposed to be getting a bus into Stockport but the roads were at a standstill both ways, so I went on the app and purchased a ticket, and yes I did have to pick a train time that was half an hour ahead (this time picking a...

Seems slightly potty in that case - I get to the station ready to buy a paper ticket, the ticket office is shut, the train is due in 10 minutes, but I can't use the app to buy a ticket, and so again have to run the gauntlet and hope that a) the ticket man on the train doesn't think I'm a liar...

Interesting, today I tried both trainline and northern apps before I left the house. Trainline would only let me pick up my tickets (for same day journey from Guide Bridge to Man Pic) from a ticket machine. While the Northern App actually let me purchase an e-ticket on this occasion. I...

Thanks for the replies. I'm wary of buying tickets in advance, as the other week I got to the station office and bought a ticket, then went to the platform - and all the services had cancelled on them. Fortunately the ticket man apologised, had forgotten there was a signal failure on the...

I try to live in the 20th century, and although I prefer to buy a paper ticket from a live person at my local station, I realise this isn't always possible. I have become seriously fed up of being treated as a fare dodger by default by the revenue protection officers at Manchester Piccadilly...

Thanks people, much appreciated. It's frustrating that, like the online ticketing, information is only provided 12 weeks in advance, as I have finally found out from Arriva that it goes on until March 25th - at first I thought it was until February 18th, but they kept adding the information...

Thanks for the replies, which are helpful if not filling me with joy, I guess I am just going to have to get an early Monday train, and try to find out when all this ends, or just give up my lease and spend the savings on driving lessons and getting a car for next time I try something like this...

This year I took the decision to get a cheap second place to live in north Wales and work 3 days in Manchester, doing one long commute per week, arriving in Llanfairfechan on Wednesday evening and heading back to Manchester for an intense working week on Sunday evening. I knew there was some...