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Hi, Northern Rail's website advises that TPE and TfW have granted ticket acceptance for Northern Rail would-be users on 01/03 "on all reasonable routes". Does anyone know what exactly constitutues a "reasonable route"? I have a flight to catch on 01/03 from Manchester Airport. I have a GM...

I regularly peruse the Northern Assist twitter feed to keep abreast of goings on across the network. However, over the past few months/years I've noticed what look like bot accounts always asking the same thing, almost word-for-word: "I can no longer use the Advance ticket I have purchased for...

Does anyone know what the engineering works are between Manchester and Bolton on Saturdays? There's no trains running on Saturdays between Manchester and Bolton until Saturday 17th February 2024.

I needed to go from Preston to Liverpool Lime Street today and it involved no less than 5 changes - surely a record for this journey? Preston to Wigan North Western, walking to Wigan Wallgate, RRB from Wigan Wallgate to Southport, RRB from Southport to Hall Road, Merseyrail from Hall Road to...

Apparently due to staff shortages, they've issued a Do Not Travel warning for today. Does anyone know what passenger's rights are in this situation?

Hey! Please can someone tell me what the best way is to book the super off peak tickets from Manchester to London Euston is? The ones via Crewe and Lichfield

I've just signed up for a season ticket loan with my employer and they use Abellio Corporate Travel as the provider. I'm a bit confused as to why as surely it's not hard for the loan to be paid to the employee and they go and purchase the annual ticket themselves from their local station...

I am planning on going over to Spain to visit my parents this year. They’ve spoken about it wanting to get the train from where they live to Mercia. They live in Orihuela. Is it just a cause of saying to the ticket office staff “un bonito a Murcia por favor”, buying a ticket and off we go? Has...

I have a GMPTE train card I want to travel to zone 2 chorlton I used to buy a zone 2 card on the Get Me There App Do I now need to get off at Cornbrook and tap in and get the next tram? 1656705564 Lol, just attempted to get off the tram, tap in, then board again and the doors closed before I...

I've noticed on the Northern twitter page that one excuse for services being made up of three carriages instead of, say, six carriages is that longer trains wouldn't be able to work certain routes because some stations have platforms which aren't long enough open all the doors on. Okay, sounds...

The Northern train I’m on this morning has a conductor doing ticket checks in full TPE uniform. Does anyone know why this might be?

Hi, I need to get from Chorley to Manchester tomorrow. I have a GMPTE traincard, could I go to Bolton, get a train to Wigan, then get a train to Manchester? I want to avoid the Rail Replacement Bus. Unless anyone had any better suggestions? Maybe going to Preston and going to Manchester from...

They've installed ticket barriers to other platforms on the station. I don't understand why they think it's economical to employ 7-8 people to manually check tickets at one of the busiest platforms on the station? I use this daily and there's always a delay with people getting their tickets up...

I have a Manchester Traincard. If I want to travel from the central zone to Chorlton, can I buy a ticket starting at zone 2 if my Traincard allows me travel in the central zone?

I have an off-peak return from Chorley to Swinton (Manchester), return within 1 month. Changing trains at Salford Crescent. can I start my return journey from Salford Crescent instead of Swinton (Manchester?.

Hi, Is there any splits for Manchester to Peterborough that work out cheaper than just buying a straight ticket? I'm looking to buy on-the-day because you never know, I might come down with covid and have to call the whole thing off so don't want to buy advanced fares. I'm travelling Thursday...

Hi, I’m visiting my support bubble and returning on Sunday. I’ve just checked and I have an off-peak return. However, I have to get a RRB from A to B. I then have to go through barriers to get to the platform to my final destination C. If there wasn’t engineering works you would normally get a...

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Hi all, I've bought a last-minute split ticket from Manchester to London (all in £35, bargain), splitting at Crewe. It's an e-ticket. I'm a bit nervous about it all as I've never split tickets before. Is there any caveats I need to watch out for? I've opted for e-tickets. Manchester to Crewe...