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A little while since I have done something like this, so thought I would ask the assembled experts. High flight costs make flying to Manchester way cheaper than Birmingham for a show I am going to at the NEC. MIA to BHI tickets are valid via MAN, and I'd be landing at 07:55. A Manchester...

Hi all, first time flying into Gatwick for a while and headed to the station for a train into Victoria. Various trains advertised as "Southern". Realised the one I was heading for was a Gatwick Express set - so would head into the double the fare platforms at Victoria. Am a little amazed that...

I am looking to make a particular journey, where Northern offer an advance for that journey from the parent station in a station group but not from my station 5 minutes down the line which is also in the same station group. Standard Flexible fares on this journey are identical from both...

Bought advance tickets Darlington - Laindon from VTEC where the route is EC +connections and the itinerary is London Underground between Kings Cross and Fenchurch Street. When I collected the tickets from the machine I was surprised to see no Maltese Cross printed for the cross London bit...

Up at what I thought was early o'clock (but my cat didn't think early enough...) for 1P13, the 06:00 from Thornaby to Manchester. The plan this trip is do various weekend 1st upgrades so straight into coach C I go, noting that even on this early train much of standard has reservations set out...

Quick question regarding an interesting routeing spotted on NR. AS I understand it the NR planner is supposed to be the arbiter of the vastly complex routeing guide which seems to have thousands of easements these days. If I have an itinery from NR showing the trains I am travelling on and the...

Have just gone onto East Coast to book tickets and their new web layout hides the removal of the web exclusive fares offer. This used to be around 2% discount on advances plus an EC online only 49% off the Super Off Peak Single. Both have disappeared since yesterday! Having now run their web...

I'm starting nearly a full week of travel around the British Isles by train, with a few ferries and buses thrown in for good measure. Plan is to do Sailrail to Belfast then on to Skye. Main tour starts on Wednesday but today I get a brief mini trip from Essex into London. Onboard the 09:39...

I'm doing Sailrail with the boy in a couple of weeks, and booked advances which come with reservations on the Euston - Holyhead leg. I'd asked for facing on a table but having checked the seating plan its airlines back (....l) Are Virgin overly bothered if you choose to ignore your reserved...

Quick question. I'm looking at booking Bargain Berth tickets for my 13 year old son and myself in the summer. I know they will go quickly, and I know Scotrail want you to use telesales for children. So is there any problem booking two adult tickets online and effectively upgrading the boy to an...

Work drives me to do a week of increasingly silly transport moves, so thought I'd provide commentary. Monday 2nd December. Dropped off at Darlington to board the 09:26 express to Kings Cross. Darlo has 2 an hour to the big smoke, but the semi-fast arrives a few minutes before the express so I...

I'm planning what feels like an intergalactic cruise for the week after next, which as usual will involve me buying a deck of tickets for my planned travel via East Coast for rewards points. On the Tuesday my itinerary gives me 40 minutes to transfer from Paddington to Marylebone - not a...

The last time I bought my usual Finsbury Park - Zones 1-6 Off Peak travel card, the collection machine at Darlington told me that it wasn't valid out of Paddington or Euston during evening peak (16:something to 18:something I think). However, the ticket has a B1 restriction which says valid...

Quick question and apologies if this has been answered before. Can I use a One Day Travelcard and a BZ6 - Gerrards Cross ticket to travel on a train that is non-stop between Marylebone and Gerrards Cross? NRCoC rule 19a suggests this is valid with two zonal tickets. As i understand it a...

Okay this will be a bit clipped in places as you don't want to know all the details of what I got up to in my student days (!) but in the summer of 1997 I travelled round America with a female friend on a 1 month Amtrak pass. I'll try and cover off the railway bits in whatever detail I can...

I've read quite a few great trip reports recently, and in digging through boxes in the loft I found my notebook from my only ALR trip back in 2000. At the time I was living in North London, and armed with a 7 day STD rover and a week off, I started planning... Day 1. Sunday 2nd July 2000...

Quite often I buy a ticket from Finsbury Park to a destination outside Z1-6 so that I can use the underground on arrival at Kings Cross to get to another terminus. What restrictions are there on how I can use the cross London element? I know its for a single journey, what's the maximum journey...

Hoping that someone can help with a restriction code question. Next month I have to travel to Gerrards Cross from Darlington and thanks to a mid afternoon appointment time I'm looking at a more interesting route out (with return via London) East Coast set a SVR fare at £204 that will cover all...

I am comfortable with how excessing a ticket works - subtract the ticket held from the correct higher fare and half it for the single journey. So if I wanted to travel from Teesside to that London (Eaglescliffe on GC, or Darlo on EC) in the morning peak and had bought an off peak ticket, am...

Took the old man on his first Pendolino trip on Saturday (Stockport - Euston and return). Of all the bits on the route, the run through Rugby is for me the most extreme bit of track I can think of. Coming from the north, you absolutely thrash round the bend off the Trent Valley, the 390...