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    Excess fare on a Scotrail mobile ticket

    Could be smart card or like the Dutch or London any bank card. Interesting. I think they need a ticket number to use. Oh this is interesting and useful. Scotrail are still on mtickets and haven't moved to etickets yet.
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    Excess fare on a Scotrail mobile ticket

    Is it possible to do an excess fare on a Scotrail mobile ticket? We were starting the return journey a few stations earl in the Glasgow area. I've asked at a ticket office and they said they had no idea how to do it but could if it was a paper ticket. The ticket staff said to check with the on...
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    Can I get a Two Together paper railcard once I already have one on the app?

    I've got both two together and family Railcards. It's handy having the digital version, especially for the family one as we can each have one on the phone (max 2 different devices) means we don't need to keep paying the Railcard back and forth depending on who is taking the kids out on the train.
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    Changing Railcard on issued ticket?

    About ten years ago I once used the wrong Railcard accidentally and the person issuing the tickets at the ticket office did a zero value excess to the correct Railcard. So as ticket office can issue advance ticket there's a small chance they might be able to do something, though I suspect their...
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    LNER's ridiculous time options when booking a ticket

    I find the UK train booking system such a pain for this reason. You end up being unable to live train information too due to it through the TOC systems. Also what if you have jumped on a train and buying a ticket. Yes I know you are meant to but before boarding, but say you normally but from the...
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    Falkirk Council propose bus service changes

    It's only the services that are little used where there is the suggestion to pre-book.
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    Falkirk Council propose bus service changes

    The problem with 2 hours notice is that it stops spontaneous journeys. How easy will it be to book? Will it cover other people who don't use an app? Really needs to be cheaper to use the bus along with more frequent services if we are to get more people on to buses.
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    Introducing RailUK Tickets - support the forum when booking your rail tickets!

    There is also kids for a quid offer on Scotrail which can only be bought from station or on train staff. Means we are making more use of our two together Railcard however annoying that we need multiple Railcards as adds complexity or permutations of ticket combinations to try to get the cheapest...
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    Lothian Group discussion (Lothian City, Lothian Country Bus and East Coast Buses)

    The problem with reducing the frequency on the extremities of the routes is that it makes it more complex as passengers need to be aware of the destination and discourages bus use through longer waiting times to get to the destination. To get people out of their cars need higher frequencies in...
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    How could heritage railways encourage more visitors to arrive by public transport?

    I'm a parent with two kids and have no car. I love in Falkirk and past of the reason for choosing the house was being in sight of a rail station and some good bus connections. About a quarter of households in Falkirk don't have a car based on the census. I was recently at a days out with Thomas...
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    Plusbus - knowledge of bus driver?

    I think there needs to be a national overhaul of bus ticketing to simplify it and make it easier to be automatically capped and charged the right amount. There are now several capping schemes that work differently, making it ever more complicated when traveling. Single tickets tend to be...
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    PlusBus railcard discount times

    PlusBus is only valid on the days that you also have a rail journey, so they were correct to not allow on the intermediate days. It's one of the pain points as you then have to move on to the local operator tickets for the days you don't travel by train. There really needs to be a simplification...
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    Greater Anglia Smartcards

    Back when commuting was a thing, I used both the Greater Anglia and Chiltern smart cards between Ipswich and Cambridge North for day returns. Even bought tickets on one app and used the other to load it on to my smart card at one point. Originally it was only season tickets that could be on the...
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    What will happen if, after boarding an Intercity Express Train (IET) with a bike with a reservation, there is no space to put my bike?

    I'd even go further and say we need to improve the booking process so that you can say at the initial train requirements that you need a cycle, wheelchair, buggy, or luggage space, and then the trains shown would include those requirements, this being able to easier find the required trains...
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    PlusBus railcard discount times

    Just got in a bus in South Queensferry and told by the driver that he'd never seen a plus bus ticket before and that it was a train ticket. I've never had an acceptance issue with Lothian Buses before, there's always got to be a first time. I think bus operators need to spend more time training...
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    LNER flags overseas card payment as fraud review

    Next time might be easier using the web browser as then you would be able to put all the tickets into a single transaction. Each person gets separate tickets anyway as PDF issued (though I'd like the option to be more like the German system where there's a single barcode for everyone).
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    LNER error adding Leeds-Edinburgh journey to basket causes error

    Not sure if I'm missing something, here's a few more possible bugs: I can't seem to get to the seat selector any more. I've used the family railcard, however it's saying 0 x family railcard has been used. How do you delete things from the basket? The personal details screen doesn't remember the...
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    LNER error adding Leeds-Edinburgh journey to basket causes error

    Edinburgh-London stop at York LNER, First Saturday in September around 10 or 11am. Thanks for taking a look.
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    LNER error adding Leeds-Edinburgh journey to basket causes error

    Other train operators have provided cashback, e.g. through cashback sites in the past. How is this different to scheme such as LNER perks or the I rarely find any significant savings on the route between Ipswich and Edinburgh, I think the most I've found that could just about work would be...
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    LNER error adding Leeds-Edinburgh journey to basket causes error

    With my Halifax credit card I've got cashback extras, one of the ones that's come up is 5% discount when buying through LNER online, so quite a significant discount when going up and down the East Coast mainline twice when able to do it as a single transaction (it's a one time discount)...

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