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    Bikes, reservations and advance tickets

    Hi everyone, I've just been on the phone with Transport for Wales. I have an advance ticket from Llandudno to Crewe, changing at Chester. The customer service representative booked me a bike reservation from Llandudno to Chester, but she said that the Chester to Crewe train was unreservable...
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    Euston to Tyndrum Lower/Upper Tyndrum with a 2 Together Railcard

    Hi guys, I'm having a tricky time with national rail website. I have a couple of questions- Firstly, I have found a fare on BRfares that I am unable to find on the national wesbite. It's an off-peak return for £117 each with a two together railcard. Here it is on BRfares ...
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    Validity of ticket next day due to disruption

    I just need a bit of advice. I have an off peak return with a Network Railcard from Clapham Junction to Durrington. My intention is to travel back from Durrington to Clapham Junction on Tuesday evening. However, of course I am fully aware of the potential for disruption. If I cannot make...
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    Chiswick To Exeter St Davids ticket - dispute at barrier line

    Hi everyone, I have a super off peak return via Honiton from Chiswick to Exeter St Davids. I bought it from Chiswick as on my return journey that's where I'll be returning to. However, on my outward journey I tried to start it from Wandsworth Town, as this is closest to where I live. This is on...
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    Sailrail + Trains in Ireland/Northern Ireland

    Hi guys, I'm looking to travel aorund the 22nd December from London to Londonderry in Northern Ireland via Sailrail. The route I was thinking is Euston- Dublin, stay over a night in Dublin and then travel Dublin - Londonderry via Belfast on the train on the 23rd. The sailrail tickets look to be...
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    Appalling Treatment by South Western Railway

    I'm furious at how I have been treated by SWR this morning. My journey was Wandsworth Town to Islip. The ticket I wanted to purchase was the £21.10 day return via London with a Network Railcard discount. I went to catch the 10.02 train from Wandsworth Town to Waterloo, as this would give...
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    Potential slashing of rail services in 2021

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8932799/Rail-firms-slash-timetables-cut-costs-FIFTH-commuters-not-use-trains-indefinitely.html 'Rail firms plan to slash services in timetable in the new year to cut costs amid predictions that a fifth of rail users won't return' in an article from the...
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    HST Diagrams London St Pancras (STP) - Nottingham (NOT)

    Hi everyone, I am thinking of travelling up to Nottingham on Saturday 14th December on a East Midlands HST as they have the original interiors. I have tried but failed to find any current diagrams of services on a Saturday that are HSTs. Does anyone know which services on Saturdays are run by...
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    London Bridge Station Departure Boards

    https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/jun/05/southen-southeastern-london-bridge-departure-boards I thought I would bring this to everyone's attention. This situation seems ridiculous- but also all too common where train companies are fighting and no one takes responsibility. What do you think...
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    Rover Validity

    I was travelling on a service from York to Newcastle on a LNER service with a North Country 4 in 8 day Rover. The Guard said that it wasn't valid 'as that Rover is for the Peak District' and I would have to purchase a new ticket. It wasn't until I showed him the map of validity that I had...
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    Southern Unused Ticket Refund Feature

    I am all for criticising rail companies for when they fail the travelling public, however as I am sure some of you are already aware they have an excellent feature which I used yesterday: https://www.southernrailway.com/tickets/buy-tickets/money-back-guarantee Basically, if you buy a 'walk up'...
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    Getting home on Southern

    Hi all, Yesterday I was travelling Chiswick-Durrington. I was due to get the 21.29 from Chiswick to Clapham Junction and then change onto the train to Durrington. However, due to all the horrendous disruption yesterday with trains in and out of Waterloo we ended up getting to CLJ at 23.15. We...
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    Pacers on Esk Valley Line

    Hey everyone, With the new esk valley timetable, there are now long distance trains from Newcastle, Hexham and Darlington to Whitby everyday. http://www.eskvalleyrailway.co.uk/Esk_Valley_Middlesbrough-Whitby_from_20_May_18.pdf Northern used to mostly use a 156 Mon-Sat to run the service...
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    Delay Repay Rejection

    Hello everyone, Amusing anecdote here which I am sure will be resolved, but I thought I would share it to see if anyone else has had something similar. We had a journey delayed on Sunday 8th October London Victoria to Durrington travelling on two returns with our two together railcard. Our...
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    Manchester to Sheffield Hope Valley

    Does anyone know the typical train formation of services on the Hope valley on a weekday i.e for tomorrow. I am hoping to go on a pacer as they offer greater views and lot's of bouncing:D
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    Can you help me identify loco hauled trains to travel on?

    Hi all, I would like to travel on loco-hauled trains on the national network (not specialist charter trains). I intend to visit the Cumbrian Coast this Summer- does anyone know how I can find out in advance which services are loco-hauled? Also, I swear in passing through I saw a...
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    Worthing to York Routeing

    Hi all, I am travelling up to York from Worthing with my partner and on our return journey would like to visit a friend in Nottingham. I was wondering, could we use the return portion to go via Nottingham? The fare is the Super off-peak return £169.40 for the both of us. I have found on...
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    Caledonian Sleeper Delay Repay

    Hi everyone, I travelled on the Sleeper Train on Sunday 20th December 2015 from Euston and arrived at Fort William on the Monday morning but the journey was delayed by 45 minutes or so. I sent delay repay forms with the tickets which they received on 14th January (I sent them 2nd class signed...
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    Caledonian Sleeper 30th December

    Hi all, I am looking to go from Fort William on the evening Wednesday 30th December to London Euston on the Caledonian Sleeper. On the Caledonian Sleeper website it says there are no services, but on national rail there is a service leaving at 20.10 arriving the following morning at 07.47. Is...
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    01:25 Brighton to Worthing

    Hi everyone, Looking to maybe have a night out on Friday night in Brighton (April 10th) travelling from Worthing. Was looking at the last train back from either Hove or Brighton, which is listed on NRE as 00:25 from Hove. However, I thought this seemed a bit early. I checked the times of...

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