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    Belfast Dublin Enterprise service upgrade funded

    Yes, it is included in both directions with a return ticket. All staff are well aware of it. As well as Titanic Quarter, you can also use your ticket to travel by train to Yorkgate free of charge. At Yorkgate, a free bus transfer to Ulster University's Belfast Campus and the City Centre is...
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    Dublin to Ulverston SailRail

    To find the price, it's simply €1 less than Irish Ferries. Both charge the same fares, but Irish Ferries charge a €1 booking fee. To book, you can call the UK number or the Irish number - both route to the same call centre in Holyhead which takes the bookings for Irish-origin Rail and Sail...
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    Dublin to Ulverston SailRail

    Stena is cheaper (by €1) if purchased at the Irish rate, and accommodation will almost certainly be cheaper somewhere along the route in the UK than in Dublin.
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    Dublin to Ulverston SailRail

    Yes, the terms and conditions say this, and the ferry companies will confirm that break of journey is not permitted if contacted. However, in actual fact, the tickets themselves (which consist of several sheets of paper stapled into a paper folder) whether Irish Ferries or Stena Line state...
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    Dublin to Ulverston SailRail

    There are no return Rail and Sail tickets for journeys between Great Britain and Ireland via Holyhead or Fishguard. You must buy two single tickets, one for each direction. This is what you will be issued with even if you book a "return" journey from an online booking site. For the outward...
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    Belfast to Dublin Enterprise train.

    The breakfast menu is served on trains departing Dublin or Belfast before 12pm. The lunch menu is served on trains departing Dublin or Belfast after 12pm. Monday to Saturday, no hot food is served on the 6:05pm or 8:05pm from Belfast, nor on the 8:50pm from Dublin. The 8:05pm from Belfast has...
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    Bought Child all area day saver instead of 16-18 day saver

    Presumably they had one of these at Child rate: https://www.brfares.com/!faredetail?orig=CTR&dest=I375&rte=186&tkt=MSV Instead of one of these: https://www.brfares.com/!faredetail?orig=CTR&dest=I375&rte=186&tkt=MSW
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    What does Route: "." mean?

    Yes As a single, almost imperceptible, dot. See this image of such a ticket - the dot is above the second "e" in "See" https://eta.st/assets/img/rsp6/ticket.jpg
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    SailRail booking issues - not allowing Avanti unless ticket from Crewe or further west

    Yes, the issue appeared to only affect travel this week. I wouldn't have thought the availability of Advance tickets had anything to do with getting an itinerary on a train with a SailRail Standby ticket - as far as I was aware the only requirements were (a) availability of a seat on the train...
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    SailRail booking issues - not allowing Avanti unless ticket from Crewe or further west

    Several days ago, i encountered an obscure issue when helping a family member book a SailRail ticket to return home to Ireland for Christmas. I found that I was unable to get any booking engine to issue an itinerary with a SailRail Advance or SailRail Standby from points south of Crewe that...
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    TfL considers Taylor Swift-style 'dynamic pricing' for Tube journeys

    Would this even be legal? Tap your contactless card, get charged a random amount of money that you aren't entitled to know beforehand. With other surge pricing, you are entitled to see the price before agreeing to pay it or not.
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    BBC News reports "ScotRail introduces electric car-charging fees at stations" - (Why have they been free to use?)

    This isn't exclusive to Scotland. For example, all public car charging was free in Northern Ireland until April 2023 - including for visitors from the Republic of Ireland.
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    Falsely used 16-25 railcard. investigated letter received.

    Especially students - given that they can get a free four-year one by opening a bank account with Santander!
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    Travel card validity on trains

    A Travelcard is not only valid on the London Underground, contrary to what many think. It is also valid on: All National Rail services within the zones it covers (with two specific exceptions - the Heathrow Express service, and the Southeastern High Speed services between St Pancras and...
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    Trivia : Popular tube journeys requiring a change

    I seem to recall reading somewhere that for journeys from one end of the Piccadilly Line to the other, assuming you position yourself in the correct part of the train, it is quicker to change at Finsbury Park to the Victoria Line and then back to the Piccadilly Line at Green Park.
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    I tapped in, and out (any charge?)

    As you touched out between 2 and 30 minutes after touching in, you will be charged the fare for the cheapest possible journey from the station - in this case £2.80 (the off-peak fare from Luton Airport Parkway to Harpenden). This should be refunded automatically, but if not you can request a...
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    Petrol and diesel prices - how much have you been paying?

    Fuel prices in Ireland - especially petrol - are in absolute freefall. One station in particular close to me has reduced their petrol price by over 23 cent per litre (from 179.9c/L to 156.6c/L) in the space of ten days. Diesel has fallen by over 13 cent per litre (from 179.9c/L to 166.6c/L)...
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    Sunday trading laws discussion

    This is the situation in Ireland. There are no restrictions on Sunday trading, but employees (in all sectors, not just retail) are legally entitled to a "reasonable" benefit for working on Sundays. This can take the form of an additional payment for each Sunday worked, an increase in overall...
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    Advice needed: Northern trains penalty issued

    The notices at Preston which have been photographed appear to not only have the wrong wording; but are also missing "the penalty fares logo as shown in Part 3" and "the word “WARNING” in large, prominent text at the top of the notice" - unless these are cropped off the photographs.
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    Remaining Effects of Covid

    Ridiculously, this was also legal, assuming it was after normal bar hours and thus the bar was for residents only.

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