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I recently graduated from university and I'm currently a software engineer in the financial sector. Tech-wise I'd consider myself a generalist; my current role involves distributed systems/API development in Java but I've worked with a range of different technologies in the past including web...

Anyone able to help with the unit numbers from the following workings today (05/08)? 2Y20 1412 Bristol Parkway - Weston-super-Mare 2D26 1710 Weston-super-Mare - Bristol Parkway Cheers.

In addition to Virgin Trains (as others have suggested), it would also be worthwhile to call Riviera Trains and see what they say. They have a lot of experience in organising this type of thing.

Generally, Senior Conductors are not PF trained and cannot do MG11s (reports for prosecution under caution) and as such their job is purely to sell regular tickets.

On Northern services, there is always a guard and a driver. Sometimes, most commonly in the morning peak, there will also be a Revenue Protection Assistant who works with the guard by issuing tickets to those boarding at unstaffed stations. On non-London East Midlands Trains services, the same...

Yeah, these are right.

After a couple of weeks of emails with Northern, their customer services department and Fares Manager have agreed that a Penistone to Moorthorpe season is indeed valid via Huddersfield. They also said that this "fares anomaly" may be changing in January 2015, but not before then. I've been...

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395025 (Sandwich portion) and 395022 (Margate portion)

I used a CDR to travel from Penistone to Huddersfield and back today, since I'm waiting for a formal response from Northern/Passenger Focus regarding my season ticket. The guard on the way back didn't know that the new restrictions only applied to tickets either wholly within West Yorkshire or...

Yes, all the problems have been with Northern. The reason why TPE have been mentioned is because the ticket produces itineraries via Leeds on services from Huddersfield, which according to the person on the phone meant that it would "clearly not be valid". Just to be clear, so far I've only been...

Another farce today I'm afraid to report :( I travelled from Huddersfield to Penistone this afternoon, and upon checking my ticket the guard questioned its validity, telling me that he had heard from a colleague it wasn't valid. I confirmed, as per my phone call with Northern's customer...

Nope, completely different staff on today.

Well, I used my season ticket again today and the guard passed it in both directions without saying a word. I don't know if a brief regarding the validity has been issued or not, but hopefully today is a sign of things to come.

Just ask the guard as you board. Nearly all Northern guards will fully understand the situation and should only be too happy to sell you a Priv.

I was under the impression that apart from the Edinburgh - Fort William portion of the Highland Sleeper (which is driven by Glasgow Queen Street and Fort William based ScotRail drivers), then all of the Caledonian Sleeper workings were driven by DB Schenker crews. Which sleepers do you drive...

Are you sure you are reading the right data? Penistone to Moorthorpe SDS, £3.40 Penistone to Wakefield Stns SDS, £3.30

To muddy the waters further (what fun!) we can also see from the NFM64 data on farehistory.info that, in the eyes of journey planners, Wakefield Group does pass the fares check - although this rule regarding which set of fares data to use isn't listed in the Routeing Guide. This probably...

Right, that makes more sense and I see where I'm going wrong now. I wonder why the NRE journey planner considers Moorthorpe - Leeds - Huddersfield - Penistone as valid. Using the first route you mentioned under SY+TP would result in a double back, since travelling direct from Swinton to...

As kwvr45 notes: Therefore, the permitted routes are shown on the maps for journeys between between Swinton and Huddersfield, Swinton and Barnsley, Doncaster and Huddersfield, and Doncaster and Barnsley. Looking at the first option - Swinton to Huddersfield - we have the following routes...