Recent content by Smylers

Thanks, Island. That (sort-of) makes sense. I guess we're about to find out how competent our local ticket office is then! Yeah, that's what I was expecting them to do, and why I was cautious about collecting the tickets and thereby removing their ability to do that. 1688074600Update...

Hello. For changing the dates on Advance tickets, any advice on whether we're better off collecting the tickets and then trying to change them, or to change them online first, with the system knowing that we haven't yet got our hands on the originals? I don't want to collect them and then find...

Thanks. Yeah, I appreciate we can't know till something is published, but it's useful to have a general idea of what might be possible when researching hire cars and National Express options and getting a feel for what the day might involve. Cheers.

Thanks, 43055 — that's really useful to know. Do you know if there have still been trains from Teignmouth to Plymouth?

Hello. We have tickets for Teignmouth–Penmere on Friday June 2nd, which has now been announced as an RMT strike day. Has GWR run any trains on this route on previous RMT strike days? (I appreciate that nobody can know for definite what will run that day until timetables are announced, but I'm...

Thanks. Though the above page also says “Tickets will be available on the following dates only on the LNER website and app: From 23 July to 15 September”. Presuming it means ‘available for’ those dates (rather than ‘available to buy on’ them), then that explains why there are some tickets for...

Hello. We wish to travel from Ilkley to King's Cross in August. Trying to book a ticket for, say, August 6th on LNER's website says tickets aren't yet on sale but claims I can “create a Ticket Alert”. So I followed the link and tried to do that, and the site says it can only alert me about...

A fair point. But if passengers are going to be routed on journeys which require travelling via a specific station, there should be some information available enabling that: either the required information being shown somehow on displays at the station, or the customer being informed when...

Yes, albeit one that costs more — and I'd rather not pay over double for crossing London unless we have to. The through journey is routed with a change at Clapham Junction anyway: catching the Tube King's Cross–Vauxhall, then South Western Vauxhall–Clapham Junction to pick up the service that...

That's a shame — I was hoping to hear the opposite! The cheapest way of doing this I could see would be to get Zone 1–Clapham Junction singles, then the Advance from Clapham Junction to Salisbury (which turns out to be the same price as Vauxhall–Salisbury anyway). I presume that if take the...

When using multiple tickets for a journey, does using an MCard and contactless payment on the Underground to cross London still count as a single ‘journey’? Specifically from the point of view of missing a connection. We're travelling London–Salisbury, on advertised trains for the entire...

Do MCards and London Underground contactless used on part of a journey still count as ‘tickets’ for this? We're travelling Ilkley–Salisbury, on an advertised itinerary, using a Family Return for the Leeds–King's Cross section, which we then need to link up at both ends: For Ilkley–Leeds, one...

Sorry, I'm not sure. I presumed it was a rail person I was speaking to, but perhaps not. Also sorry for not replying sooner: I've had this tab open for ages meaning to get round to it. You're right; that is odd. Thinking about it some more, it was probably actually a Leeds–Hayes & Harlington...

Yeah, but it seems like there is a plan of which services are assigned which type of train. There are certain services which are a 32X every day, and others which are generally 333s. So it isn't just a case of everything is ‘supposed’ to be a 333 and they send a 32X if one isn't available...

There seem to be as many 322s as ever on the Wharfedale Line: of 8 journeys I took last week, 3 turned out to be 322s (one Ilkley–Bradford, one Bradford–Ilkley, and one Ilkley–Leeds), all of which were shown on Realtime Trains as “Pathed as Class 333 EMU” — and at least the Leeds journey being...