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I’m currently on a train holding an advance single. I’d like to get off one stop earlier than planned. Am I right that the worst that can happen is an excess, presumably to the off peak single between the station I boarded and my new destination?

Hi Yesterday I travelled Oxford - Torquay and back changing trains at Didcot, Swindon and Newton Abbot. I'm trying to book for 9th March, and planners seem to insist I go via Bristol. I can force via Swindon, but the route I get is still via Bristol. Has something changed in the timetable, or...

I’m currently on a Crosscountry train; a member of Crosscountry staff has already done an efficient and friendly ticket check. Someone from a company called Tracsis has just announced a ‘ticket audit’. I have no idea what this data is being used for, or who Tracsis are. Any thoughts on whether...

I was fairly shocked this morning to go to book a 9.32 train from Oxford to Paddington via Trainline, only to have it apply my Network Railcard discount. I'm 99% sure that this isn't valid, but if I wasn't intimately familiar with the fare structure on this route, I would have happily gone ahead...

I am a bit mystified by the cost of a set of journeys taken the other day. It couldn't matter less, but I have been unable to work out exactly why these are the amounts charged, and if someone could I help it would put me out of my misery. I used contactless throughout. Paddington (off peak) -...

Hello I have a slightly bizarre few days coming up, and am drawing a blank on any ways to do anything other than just buy three singles. On 10/3 I need to go from Oxford to Diss, arriving around 18.30 (so hitting peak out of Liverpool St) On 11/3 I need to get from Attleborough to Chichester...

I thought it might be useful for people to know the current Crosscountry backlog for delay repay is two months; they replied to me on twitter today saying they’re up to July 26th.

I have a digital Network Railcard which I bought on 12/8/21. It shows in the app as 'Valid until 11/8/22', but logging in this morning I see it has now marked itself as expired, a day early. As it happens, the tickets I have today don't use the Railcard, but I could easily have been caught out...

I'm trying to travel from Bristol to Lancaster on Saturday 21st May - I'd planned a routing via Birmingham New Street, and Preston, leaving BRI at 15.35 and arriving at 19.20. Various ticket engines are showing that tickets aren't (yet?) available. I'm getting similar messages for a journey I...

Hi all I have a Trainline m-ticket anytime return (issued by a company I work with, so no option to print tickets) from Oxford to University in Birmingham. On return, I used the University to Birmingham New St portion, but then took a different route on different tickets. I want to use the...

Hi I need a bit of help deciphering validity. I hold a Off-Peak Day Return valid via any permitted route from Oxford Parkway to Marylebone. If I want to return on the Paddington - Oxford route (outside the Paddington evening peak) is that allowed? In other words, is Paddington - Oxford - Oxford...

Hi all Hoping for some urgent advice. I have a Norwich to Oxford Parkway advance single for tomorrow morning, valid ‘on specified trains & connections only’. The ticket itself notes the 11.07 Marylebone to Parkway service, which is fine. The itinerary supplied by the booking site (Trainsplit)...

Hello all. I'm contemplating my first train trip since last March and am very out of practice, as well as unaware of how things have changed, so I thought I'd come and ask. I need to go on a weekday from Oxford to Colchester, arriving around noon. The next morning I want to head back to...

I was a bit surprised recently when using the National Rail planner for a journey from Oxford to Bromsgrove. The planner returns routes via Worcester, unless I force it to go via BNS. Going via Birmingham saves half an hour, but requires two separate tickets. Why is this not a valid route? I...

Hi All advice on doing the above slightly odd itinerary as cheaply as possible welcome. I'd do Oxford-Manchester on 20/3, Manchester-Thirsk on 21/3, then Thirsk - Oxford on the 22/3. Other than buying three singles, the best I can think of doing is buying Oxford - Thirsk open return, then...

I managed to leave something in the 20.40 from Oxford to Reading last night. Cross country advice is to contact the terminating station so i’m trying GWR. However, I would like to anticipate the item having been missed and then found on a subsequent journey; how can I find out where that train...

I've just had an interesting time trying to use the return portion of an Off Peak Oxford - Ely ticket. I'd used the outward portion, and Ely - Cambridge on the day of purchase three weeks ago. I then travelled by other means, but was in London earlier today and used the ticket to travel from...

I have an Oxford-Torquay super off-peak return, purchased as a mobile ticket from GWR. On the way back, I want to break my journey in Reading and return to Oxford the next day. I assumed that break of journey was ok on a return - National Rail say that Break of journey is permitted on the...

Hello A friend was due to travel from Oxford to Crowthorne today and back, on a pair of advance singles. There were emergency engineering works that slightly delayed her departure, for long enough that the last train back - which she was booked on - was cancelled. This cancellation happened...

I travelled Oxford - Winchester return yesterday; easy on the way out but by the time I came back there were no direct services so did the usual Winchester-Basingstoke-Reading-Oxford shuffle. To avoid queues at Oxford I'd bought a cross-country mobile ticket (valid for Any Permitted route). The...