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    ScotRail Annoucements

    Not sure if this has been posted yet or not, but a Twitter user has found the strangest Freedom of Information request ever. Someone has actually FOI'd Scotrail and all 2440 announcements have been released. There some absolute oddities in there and some absolute crackers
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    Perth to Cardiff Central Tickets

    Looking for a bit of help for tickets for 1st Class going on Friday the 25th of October first thing in the morning, and returning on Sunday the 27th. I've had a play about on various sites and the cheapest option I can get with my Disabled Railcard is £244.20 with 3 changes involved. Any...
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    Scotrail Delay Repay - Rejected

    Looking for a bit of advice please folks. I was travelling from Glenrothes with Thornton to Glasgow Queen Street on Friday evening after a work night out. I got on the 1852 from Glenrothes and due to get into Edinburgh Waverley 1956. This left me 4 minutes to catch the 2000 to Glasgow Queen...
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    Glasgow Queen to Dalmeny

    Sounds almost ridiculous that I'm having to post something like this but I am. I'm travelling from Glasgow Queen to Dalmeny tomorrow and for an Off Peak Day Return with my railcard is coming out at £13.85. As there is no direct train, I have to travel to Haymarket then double back to Dalmeny...
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    Scotrail Disruption - 08/05

    Yet again the signals between Drumry and Hyndland have failed causing mayhem and the majority of services on the North Clyde Line and Argyle Line to be cancelled. As a commuter on the Argyle Line, how many times do the signals need to fail on this patch of line before Network actually do...
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    Glasgow Central to Kings Cross - 26/02/18

    Travelling to London via VTEC on the 06:48 leaving Glasgow, is it still a Class 91 that does the route? It's been a a couple of years since I last went via VTEC so not to sure if they've changed it or not...
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    Platform Overshoot - Do They Happen Often?

    Currently travelling from Croy to Glasgow Queen Street which was meant to be stopping at Lenzie. As we were approaching Lenzie the driver was coming in far too fast and had to slam on the brakes in the result the front 3 carriages of a 6 carriage train overshot the platform. Does this happen...
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    Glasgow Central - Manchester

    I know it's relatively short notice but I'm travelling from Glasgow to Manchester leaving at 17:30 on the Friday on the Friday and coming back on Sunday at roughly 10:00am. It will be two people with a Disabled Persons Railcard. I'd rather travel with VTWC and change rather then TPE direct...
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    Scotrail TVM charged me twice.

    I was travelling from Glasgow to Stirling on Friday, so for quickness I bought my ticket from the TVM and uploaded it to my smartcard. After selecting to pay by card and tapping the contactless card reader, the TVM asked me to tap my card onto the smartcard reader to upload the ticket, but...
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    Virgin Media

    Does anyone else have Virgin Media and experienced trying to leave? Looking for some helpful advice. Took out my Phone, TV and Broadband with them in 2015 after I moved into my flat. Since May 2015 I've had 15 engineers trying to fix the ongoing issues with the broadband connection and also...
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    Scotrail Guard unable to take payment to sell ticket

    Got on my local train this morning from Bridgeton to Croy with a change at Glasgow Central. Asked the conductor for a return and proceeded to give him a £10 note, to which he said that he couldn't sell me a ticket due to having no change. When I asked to pay by card, he then told that the...
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    Samsung S8 Issues...

    Looking for a bit of advice from all you lovely people. I bought my Samsung S8 on the 21st of May, but the AKG earphones that came with the device don't work. O2 have referred me to Samsung directly as the earphones can't be replaced separately, yet Samsung have referred me back to O2 as...
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    2002 Volvo B7TL Hybrid

    I'm just back from London where I saw a Volvo B7TL (London General WVL95) that has been retrofitted to hybrid by a company called Vantage Power. Apparently TFL and the bus companies are looking into converting more of the older fleets to hybrid. Is converting to hybrid the way forward rather...
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    60 minutes late and no available seat on the replacement.

    Was meant to leave Glasgow this morning on the 0650 East Coast to Kings Cross. We got told that due to a train fault it was severely delayed (ultimately cancelled) and that we could go on the 0750 CrossCountry to Edinburgh and continue the journey with East Coast from there. Got on the 0930...
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    London Terminals - Datchet

    Going to Datchet next Friday for a family jaunt. Getting to London is fine and train tickets for that are sorted. However, looking at prices and tickets for getting to Datchet are confusing me slightly. My train terminates at Kings Cross, and I can go from Kings Cross to Datchet with a...
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    Virgin West & East Coast Advances

    When do Virgin either West Coast or East Coast release their Advance tickets? I'm trying to book an Advance Single from Glasgow Central to either Euston or Kings Cross, but both websites are giving me no results at all.
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    Anytime Day Return vs Off Peak Day Return

    I'm curious as to who was right when I bought my ticket on Friday morning. I always get the 0654 train from Bridgeton to Glasgow Central, then from Queen Street to Croy. It's always an Anytime Day Return and with my disabled railcard it only costs £4.60. On Friday the person at Bridgeton...
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    Canavan Travel - Refusing Zonecard

    Apologies in advance if this is in the wrong section... Looking for some advice if possible, currently I've got a SPT Zonecard which consists of zones G1, G2, G3, S3 and S6 so a total of 5 zones. Canavan Travel is the local operator in Cumbernauld which gets me to and from Cumbernauld Town...
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    Refund of Annual Season Ticket

    On Friday I will be handing in my Annual Season Ticket as I no longer require it due to me starting a new job. My annual season ticket was bought on the 7th of December and is due to expire on the 2nd of December 2016. When I bought it, it cost me £456 and it goes from Bridgeton to...
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    SPT Zonecard Zones Help.

    I'll be starting a new job on the 18th of July in Cumbernauld and I'll be getting the train from Glasgow Queen Street to Croy then the local bus services out to Hunt Hill where my new employer is based. I've had a look at the Zonecard Map and it shows that I'll need Zones G1-G1, G7, S2 and S6...

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