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    Northern Penalty Fare Scheme (as of 14 May 2018)

    Do the DfT have to approve each route Northern want to run a PF scheme on individually? I’m staggered the Penistone line’s been approved...
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    TOPS Requests (including headcodes, allocations, traction, etc) [Instructions in Post 2]

    If anyone could find out which power cars worked 1N85 1308 KGX-YRK today I’d be grateful. Thanks in advance! Edit: VTEC’s twitter team gave me them - 43313 and 43272.
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    Caledonian Sleeper 'authority to travel'

    Whenever I’ve been on the sleeper then you don’t need to print out or show your reservations to anyone, just get on the seated coach and the guard comes along and checks your tickets just after leaving Euston (Highland) or before departure (Lowland). That’s if I’ve understood your question...
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    Collecting tickets bought online from TVM's on Penistone Line

    You can collect the tickets from the station you didn’t choose as you say. However if you choose e.g. Huddersfield to collect a Shepley - Huddersfield ticket, and you get to Shepley and it turns out you can’t collect your tickets because the machine at Shepley is out of order (as Northerns new...
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    Fort WIlliam seated sleeper reservations

    I don't have a lot of experience but it's entirely possible they'd just tell you not to worry about it if you try and get one, when I went up to Fort William in the seated coach then lots of people got on who didn't have reservations and the guard didn't care in the slightest, it was just like...
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    Refund for tickets purchased to avoid use of a rail replacement bus

    It's section 23 but yeah it does say you're only allowed 3 items.
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    No opportunity to buy tickets on Northern Rail service from Rose Hill Marple to Manchester

    It’s fairly common to see Northern guards not come out the cab to sell/check tickets, maybe their machine is broken or the train is very busy etc, or they just can’t be bothered. It’s an inconvenience if there’s a queue to buy a ticket when you get off but at the end of the day it’s up to them...
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    XC HST diagrams Sat 20/01/18

    Not certain it’ll be the same but last Saturday for the same engineering works it was 1V44/1S51 and 1V58/1E73
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    NRCoT Section 14.2 query

    What was said on Twitter... showing that the twitter team haven’t bothered to read the relevant section of the NRCoT either. They work on a computer, it’d have taken them 2 minutes o_O
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    NRCoT Section 14.2 query

    With all due respect I disagree with you here. The wording isn’t sloppy at all. Its explicit that Rangers, i.e. area based tickets valid for a day, are permissible to split with and have the train not stop at the boundary station. That’s not sloppiness, that’s an alteration to the terms that’s...
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    NRCoT Section 14.2 query

    The confusion might be arising because the NRCoT are fairly new. In the old NRCoC, clause 19(c) covered this: if the train didn’t stop then one of the tickets had to be either a season ticket or a rover valid for 7 days or more. I’ve attached a screenshot from the forum’s ticketing guide...
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    XC HST diagrams Sat 20/01/18

    Has anyone got any more info on this? Most likely only 1V44/1S51 and 1V58/1E73 HSTs tomorrow?
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    all line rover ticket

    Thanks for the clarification guys, I just took his word for it because I assumed he knew what he was doing... :p
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    all line rover ticket

    It was from a very thick book he had, I didn’t see the front cover. But it definitely said rovers and rangers can be issued up to 3 days in advance. He spent about 15 minutes finding the right page, if I’m being honest I didn’t want to bother waiting if he wasn’t going to sell it me anyway but I...
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    all line rover ticket

    In the manual issued to staff it says 3 days in advance. One ticket office clerk showed it me when I was trying to get hold of one back in August. However this is not consistent across all ticket offices. A clerk at Barnsley was willing to sell one 7 days in advance, and I ended up getting mine...
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    Pacers in the Manchester area

    Since the start of September 144/156 (92.3%) of my journeys on the Penistone line have been 3 car class 144s. :D
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    Fares advice

    Morning all I've found a season ticket that I think is valid for my commute from Penistone to Huddersfield, but I want to check it with someone more knowledgeable than me at the same time as not posting it here in case it gets removed. If you'd be happy to check that I've used the routeing...
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    Huddersfield-Penistone - Worst route in the country for non-collection of fares?

    The TVMs on the Penistone line are card only. Quite a few of the ones between Penistone and Huddersfield are in use already but the two at Penistone aren’t despite having been standing there for around a month now.
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    Huddersfield-Penistone - Worst route in the country for non-collection of fares?

    Sheffield isn’t barriered, it’s completely open. Meadowhall often has northern staff asking to see tickets on the bridge, although you can just walk straight past them and they don’t do anything to stop you. It’s the same with Barnsley, it’s common for there to be someone you need to flash a...

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