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    Rail replacement - Royston-Cambridge 6 April

    The Great Northern website is quite definite that "Buses will replace trains between Royston and Cambridge" (and presumably in the other direction as well...). But that's probably a standard message for that line closure. And it certainly doesn't help when you're then instructed to check the...
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    PAYG Oyster or Contactless question

    Your proposed route includes a significant amount of mileage within Zone 1 (not that the amount is a factor in itself). So no fare that requires you to avoid Zone 1 would be valid
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    London to Ashwell and Morden - Sunday 17th March

    It's a right pain from Cambridge - if (as is far from unusual) a traveller wants to go to Liverpool St and return from King's X (for example). If only you could buy the ticket you want without having to attach it to a specific itinerary that most (but not all) journey planners don't offer, even...
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    Cambridge platform changes

    Hence the ghastly yellow barriers erected a year or so ago...
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    Cambridge platform changes

    The absence of a footbridge at the south end of Cambridge station makes things particularly bad. Most folk heading to London head for the south end of the relevant platform, so if a train is replatformed across the other side of the station (as in this morning's case with the 0922) it's a...
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    Doncaster to Nottingham Permitted Routes

    Routeing map NB shows that travelling via Sheffield is valid. Just don't travel via Derby!
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    Super off-peak on Great Northern

    But beware - CBG fares to "London Thameslink" are more expensive than to "London Terminals". Not a lot, but...
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    Super off-peak on Great Northern

    The GN website is simply wrong. The ticket's sold to the generic "London Terminals", and KGX us definitely one of those! Plus GN don't operate to St Pancras. Possible a copy/paste error from a Thameslink original?
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    LNER Advance - use of First Class lounges

    Spotted this when following up on another post on the Forum. I believe that internal guidance on travelling with Advance Tickets say, inter alia, that LNER require holders of First Advances to pay a £5 supplement to use their lounges. But LNER themselves contradict this. First Advance ticket...
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    Cambridge to Lincoln route validity

    Unless I'm mistaken (in which case I'm confident that someone will quickly correct me!), the only valid routes between Peterborough and Lincoln are via (1) Spalding, or (2) Grantham and Newark, ECML (NOT via Nottingham). Sorry.
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    Dovey Junction?

    You would need access to earlier timetables to make total sense of this. But I certainly certainly remember Dovey Junction being used for connections. The current arrangement is a relatively new thing (well, it depends on one's age, I suppose...).
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    Anglia Plus ranger - Bus validity

    Sorry, can't help!
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    Anglia Plus ranger - Bus validity

    No. Bus use confined to Norwich, (and, to a rather more limited extent) Ipswich and Bury St Edmunds.
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    LNER First Advance Tickets

    This Forum's ticketing site offers a 1st Adv Single on Mon 25 Sept for £162.30 (incl £25 share of the saving), splitting at Newcastle.
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    Stevenage to Edinburgh Weds 25 Oct

    You're not missing anything. LNER choose to make their tickets available in advance of the general window, but they sell those tickets with the caveat that the times might change, or that the trains might not even run. Whilst it's notionally at the passenger's risk that you agree to these...
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    London to Cambridge off-peak return - Sat 8/Sun 9 July

    This forum's own ticketing service matches the GA fares. Enough said! The SWR output looks like the result of a data or programming error.
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    London to Cambridge off-peak return - Sat 8/Sun 9 July

    Can you tell us what sort of ticket it's offering. And what specific trains you're looking at? Definitely no direct trains from Cambridge to Liverpool St on Sunday. And morning engineering works Cambridge to Royston (easily avoided, so long as you don't need to be back in London before midday)...
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    LNER advance tickets

    Certainly a persistent issue when travelling to Scotland from Cambridge. And by the time the connecting services can be booked, all the best fares have gone to folk who could book much earlier because they're only interested in LNER stations (as you point out in your last sentence). As the...
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    ENCTS and London buses

    Depends what you mean by "presenting". As swt_passenger notes, all you have to do is show it to the driver. In practice, waving it in the driver's general direction is usually all that's required! Ignore all these other folk who are pressing cards against readers - they have others sorts of cards.
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    Oyster refund incomplete journey - Waterloo and City line.

    I fell foul of the lack of barriers at Waterloo for the W&C just a few weeks ago. The first time I'd encountered a central London station without barriers (perhaps there are more - I should check before I go again!). It was only boarding the train that I realised I'd not waved my contactless...

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