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I remember living in the area and the train would stop at stations like Ruabon and Chirk. This was great on the occasions that friends would visit and preferred not changing and just working on the train, but in reality meant a pretty sluggish journey time. The obvious lack of a huge...

Ah took a while- but I've found one - thanks for the help. I think maybe I typed in the wrong Glasgow station or something.

There's a great fare advertised on the Rail Sale website of Glasgow to Sheffield with TPE for £10 something. I've spent ages on different ticketing engines trying to track that fare down - any idea how I encourage the computer to show it to me. I've tried things like 'via' and can't find a...

Hello all, Just to stress, I've read Yorkie's excellent thread on this from a few months ago and I've done a few searches on the forum to try and understand how GC handle things. So, say I am getting the first GC train from KC to York on Saturday and the last GC train from York to KC on...

So, the journey is Maidstone East to Bristol Temple Meads on an advance ticket. In the olden days, from memory, with these sort of long distance advance tickets (and I am thinking on Virgin Trains for instance) you were allowed to get any service for the unreserved 'connecting' bit, in this...

Thanks everyone - yes, it had a 'advance' style element on the way down, so you had to specify it as a specific train on the outward bit, but you could take any train back. It was great for £40 ish.

Hi, Many years ago (maybe 2012) I used a great ticket from Chester and maybe Crewe called the Saturday Off Peak Travelcard on Virgin Trains. Basically, you booked an advance ticket on a Saturday morning and could get any train back on the Saturday night, plus you got a travelcard. Great for a...

Thank you guys - very useful. Will keep an eye on SaveECRewards too.

Hello, I'm going from London to Inverness, then Aberdeen to London in a couple of weeks. I wonder what to expect from a food point of view, during this eight hour epic journey - just checking that surely I'll be offered two meals during the journey and won't need to stock up in advance at Kings...

Friends, Is there a up to date "sample" or "projected" service frequency timetable around anywhere? I saw a paper written a few years back discussing potential service patterns, but was trying to get my head around how places like Crewe and Stockport would be affected once the whole project...

Hi there, He was queuing for at least 25 minutes, I wasn't in the queue so couldn't say for definite, but he'll write in - my guess is c.25-30 mins. I understand the delay repay rules, but to suggest that passengers arrive c. 35 mins before departure time in order to purchase a ticket, a...

Yes, he's taken photos - I think key is the long line of Southern ticket machines that are out of order at Victoria station. I have encouraged him to write in, as it just seems very unfair. Many thanks for your time.

Hi there, Hopefully this is in the right forum. So a friend of mine has just been made an hour late by ticket queues at Victoria. He claims (I suspect a slight exaggeration) there are queues of about 100 people for the ticket machines and counters at the station. He has been unable to buy a...

Hello chaps, If I buy a cheap day return to Milton Keynes on the Highspeed from Ebbsfleet International with a Network Railcard (c. £22) am I allowed to go via Stratford and Liverpool Street - BREAK MY JOURNEY at Liverpool Street (and go to a meeting) and then continue on, on the tube, to...

Many thanks for this helpful set of replies. I got the first part changed, since this was clearly not my fault (Ie non VT fares did exist), but I chose not to worry about the tickets on the way back, since you could argue that this was a lack of knowledge on my part. We'll just pay £1.50...

Good evening, I recently had to use up a £50 rail voucher, so planned a trip up north over Christmas. In order to purchase advance tickets, and because you don't get change from a £50 rail voucher, I chose to purchase a whole range of tickets from a ticket office down here in the South East of...

Lovely. Thanks very much for your time fishquinn.

Paul, Many thanks for your kind and detailed answer. Could someone fill me in, do you mean that sometimes they stick a couple of extra carriages in anyway, or will it definitely be a 9 car train? Much obliged. Difficult to decide whether to stick with my seats or go unreserved - we just want...

Good morning chaps, A couple of quick questions if I may. I was wondering whether the 10:30 VT Euston to Glasgow will be a 9 car or 11 car train. Even though I have advanced tickets, I was thinking of sitting in the unreserved carriages, especially if it's an 11 car train, as these are...

00:38 - Still near Rugby!