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  1. mm333

    Possible incorrect Delay Repay assessment

    I travelled from Saunderton to Shipley on a Sunday with a Super Off-Peak single. I bought the ticket from LNER app that morning and was planning on going via Marylebone, Kings Cross and Leeds. But just before I travelled, I checked online and LNER had issued a do not travel warning due to OHLE...
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    Stop cancelled due to “staff training”

    I was due to travel on this morning’s 0900 XC service southbound from Leeds. But the call at Doncaster was cancelled “due to staff training”. What could that actually mean? A lack of staff training and a guard or driver who doesn’t sign the Doncaster route?
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    Beasdale station house on the market

    https://uniquepropertycompany.co.uk/property-results/for-sale/an-operational-railway-station-beasdale-west-highlands-scotland-ph39/ For £235,000.
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    Engineering works between Newark and Darlington 14-15 October

    From the LNER app: “No late night / early morning LNER service between Newark North Gate and Darlington on Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 October “Engineering work is taking place between Newark North Gate and Darlington, closing some lines. From 22:00 until 10:00, no services are able to operate...
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    contactless.tfl.gov.uk/MyCards Do I need both my phone and the card it uses set up as separate cards?

    I visit London every few months and always use my iPhone with my debit card (set up as my Express Travel card) to tap in and out. I currently have 2 contactless cards set up in my TFL account: my bank account debit card and my Apple Pay mobile payments (which takes money from my bank account)...
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    Lack of useful valid routes from Halifax to Worksop

    I was planning this journey and noted that the only mapped routes involve going from Huddersfield to Wakefield not via Leeds. The only journeys I'm getting in the LNER journey planner now are those that use Grand Central services between Mirfield and Wakefield, as Mirfield is a Huddersfield...
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    LNER app saying Super Off Peak Single (SSS) not valid via York if you get GC from KGX-YRK

    I travelled from Kings Cross-Shipley today, and with it being a Friday, there was no restrictions and I could get a Super Off-Peak single for £69.50. But I noticed when using the LNER app that travelling via York - which is a valid route - if you get a GC service to York and then change, you...
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    Where have Class 395s been under their own power?

    Obviously there's the loop from St Pancras to St Pancras via Deal and the line down to Maidstone West. Didn't the last STP-Ramsgate used to go via Canterbury East one night a week to get from Faversham to Ramsgate when the line through Whitstable was closed? There used to be weekly(?) ECS into...
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    LNER Azuma buffet catering when running on diesel

    I’m on an Azuma heading north which will be going via Sleaford and Lincoln due to engineering works. The catering person has just told us to get our hot food and drinks before Peterborough as when we’re running on diesel, there’s no power to the buffet. Is that correct? If I board an Azuma at...
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    Leeds-Bridlington direct buses?

    I was at Bradford Interchange looking at the Coastliner printed timetables. You can get from Leeds to Scarborough and Leeds to Whitby, but has Leeds ever had a direct bus service to Bridlington?
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    UK travel insurance to cover train strikes and not being able to get to an event

    I'm going to an event in late March that I've paid for but if there's a train strike, I won't be able to get there. Would regular single-trip travel insurance cover me being reimbursed for the costs of the event tickets if I can't make it or is there a particular type of cover I would need? And...
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    What's happening on the ECML? on 18/19 April and 16/17 May

    Hull Trains website says for both of these two-day midweek periods: "We are awaiting confirmation of Network Rail engineering works on our route. Confirmed service details will be added below as soon as we have received a confirmation." It's unusual for midweek engineering works to impact on...
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    Sunderland station flooded; Northern calling at St Peter's metro station

    The Northern website is reporting that due to heavy rain affecting the overhead wires in the station area, Northern services will call additionally at St Peters. This will continue until at least Friday 6th January (although after today, there are no Northern services on that line until Sunday...
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    GC to Bradford with a London-Leeds Super Off Peak Single Route Peterborough

    From time-to-time, I'll have a London-Leeds super offpeak single Route Peterborough but want to travel on Grand Central and go all the way home to Bradford without changing. So I wanted to see where the validity of my London-Leeds ticket would end. The mapped routes from London-Leeds are...
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    Doncaster PIS: logic of where the train currently is

    I had time to kill at Doncaster on Saturday and I was trying to work out the logic of between which stations the new PIS says a train currently is: At around 0913-0915, the boards said the following (and I've looked up each train's location now on RTT): 0946 HT to Hull, currently between...
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    What marks the end of a London zone journey on an add-on to a rail ticket?

    The rules say it’s valid for one journey, on, say a ZONE U123* LONDN add-on. I’m coming to London and staying at a hotel in Canning Town. In order to ride some of the Elizabeth line - and because I’ve never bought an add-on ticket before, I made Custom House EL my destination and TrainSplit...
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    Connection time at Shipley

    The minimum connection time at Shipley is 5 minutes. The 1926 from Leeds gets in at 1942, you can then get the 1947 to Frizinghall and Bradford Forster Square. The 2026 from Leeds gets in at 2042, you can then get the 2048 to Frizinghall and Bradford Forster Square, but the 2126 from Leeds gets...
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    Showing split e-tickets before the starting point

    When doing split ticket journeys with paper tickets, say A-B and B-C, if a ticket check happened before B, I would only show my A-B ticket to them, in case my B-C was clipped and a new guard came on and questioned after leaving B, why my ticket was already clipped. But now with the prevalence...
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    Tapping out then tapping in straight away at the same gateline

    In readiness for going station hopping down the Elizabeth Line, if you tap out at a gateline and then go straight back in at the same gateline, is this treated as the start of a new journey? Rather than, say, it being some kind of OSI where I'd have hit the maximum journey time by the time I'd...
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    Why is National Rail suggesting I change for a slower train?

    I’m looking to go from Canterbury East to London Bridge, travelling on a weekday, leaving on the 0814. National Rail is suggesting I change at Rainham onto a Thameslink and then change again at Dartford for a Southeastern service. Example journey...

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