dk1
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I spoke to several conductors & none of them had even heard of the sale.
Thank you.
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I spoke to several conductors & none of them had even heard of the sale.
Thank you.
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MrJeeves
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Yes
dk1
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Bumped into a friend in Spoons this morning in my pnb who was chuffed to bits he’d got £5 singles Norwich-London & return a few times next month. All good for the railway as he had no plans to go until he saw these ridiculously cheap deals.
He said it was the last day to book.
dk1
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Yes I don’t think they bother selling advance tickets with all the engineering works.
Kite159
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Makes sense not to overload the replacement buses with too many passengers on cheap advances
Markdvdman
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Well I booked Bridgend to Llanelli for Friday, and the two after that for £3.30 (50% off) on the 3:06pm and for Saturday Feb 24th on the 7:11am Pyle to Llanelli for £2.80! not bad at all 
Rail Ranger
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The Northern £10 day ticket offer in connection with local newspapers appears to be coming back. This page about the offer has appeared on the Northern website: https://www.northernrailway.co.uk/tickets/newspaper-offer
It is not yet clear when the tokens will appear in particular papers.
It is not yet clear when the tokens will appear in particular papers.
ServerHoster
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Ah! I did have a look earlier as they usually do one round this time of year and it still showed last years dates, looks like I was a few hours early.
I tweeted Northern this morning to ask when the tokens would be available - their response and I quote "We are looking into this for you and will advise you as soon as possible Thank You".
I will update when I get a reply.
Butts
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Scotrail must be spending a fortune advertising the extension of the off peak fares applying all day everyday !!
Full wraparound of 4 pages at the front of The Sunday Times Scottish Edition today.
Full wraparound of 4 pages at the front of The Sunday Times Scottish Edition today.
That's likely to be fewer than 50,000 copies.
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Reported that the Northern tokens are to appear in newspapers from Monday 12th February.
Butts
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It's also been on TV, Radio and no doubt other publications.
Thank you - the offer starts on the 12th ! - normally they go on sale the week before to give people the chance to buy before the offer starts.
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Details of the offer are now on the Northern website:
https://www.northernrailway.co.uk/tickets/newspaper-offer/reach-plc
Presumably they mean Friday 22nd March as the last day of the offer?
https://www.northernrailway.co.uk/tickets/newspaper-offer/reach-plc
Presumably they mean Friday 22nd March as the last day of the offer?
Kite159
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I think they might need to update term 6 in the T&Cs, just how long has London Midland ceased to exist (and East Midlands Trains)?
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Information on the Northern website as to when the tokens will appear in newspapers: Tokens will be available to collect from participating papers from the 12th February - 2nd March 2024.
Also the end date of the offer has been corrected to Friday 22nd March.
Also the end date of the offer has been corrected to Friday 22nd March.
Thank you
Jamesrob637
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Do school Easter holidays begin for some on the 25th then?
northwichcat
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Yes. Varies by council area. Some are sticking to 1 week before Easter and 1 week after. Others are doing 2 weeks after with Easter being early. Stockport, Salford and Manchester schools are among those breaking up on 25th. Trafford, Cheshire and Liverpool are among those not breaking up before the Bank Holidays. Obviously, academies and independents can set their own dates.
TheSel
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Very likely. 24 March is Palm Sunday, 31 March Easter Sunday etc.
From a quick search, Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield universities's holidays start that weekend (although of course have different term dates to schools).
Rather oddly the Nottingham Post doesn't appear to be participating in the offer (and AFAIK never has done) even though it's owned by Reach plc and Nottingham is served by Northern (albeit only the Nottingham-Leeds service, with East Midlands Railway running most other services out of Nottingham).
There are at least two Derbyshire papers, the Buxton Advertiser and the Central Derbyshire Times, listed under National World, but I don't know if you can buy either of those in Nottingham. If not, then I guess the only way that people from Nottingham can make use of the offer would be to make a special journey to an area where you can buy participating newspapers, or ask a friend who lives in such an area to post some tokens to them.
And even if someone from Nottingham did manage to get hold of some tokens, they may find that because there are no participating papers for sale there, the ticket office staff at Nottingham may not be very familiar with the offer.
I would guess (though this is just speculation) that the Nottingham Post might have wanted to participate in the offer but EMR might have objected for fear that if the offer were promoted in any Nottingham local papers, passengers might get confused and think that they were also valid on EMR Regional services, and try to use them to get to places like Derby, Matlock, Lincoln and Skegness.
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I think you are probably overthinking this. If you want the Nottingham Post involved you should perhaps contact them and ask why they aren't - it might just make a difference.