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One solution to stations being far from the towns they serve would be to provide a bus service, free to rail ticket holders, timed to coincide with the train arrivals and departures.

No higher than third most despised certainly behind the Government and Ryanair. :-)

I was making the point that you can't fly to Sydney for £303 without booking in advance. But if Starmill is correct there are no tickets other than Anytime tickets on which you can travel without fear of being in breach of contract.

There is no evidence in the original post that the There is no evidence in the original post that the reporter needed the flexibility of an Anytime ticket. Trainline is offering me a VT ticket from Manchester to London leaving in twenty minutes time for £89. Are you telling me that I would...

Since OP doesn't tell us what time she was travelling I can't find the appropriate ticket. And I don't what your rant about being denied travel on a valid ticket has to do with my statement that there are adequate online resources for finding the best value ticket.

Could you elucidate please. I don't recognise that equation

It is more complicated but there are online resources that can find you the cheapest rail ticket just as easily as the cheapest television.

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It is no different to buying anything else. If I want to buy a, for example, a television I don't just walk up to the first shop with one in the window and pay what is asked. I shop around for the cheapest or the one with special benefits. Just as I do for a rail ticket

The cheapest flight from Manchester to Sydney today is £628 and it doesn't leave until 1755.

Platforms 13 and 14 at Manchester Piccadilly are a long walk from the concourse. Almost as if they were a separate station :-) Does my memory fail me but ISTR that you used to be able to access these platforms directly from under the bridge on Travis Street.

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On one occasion I omitted some information from my tax return. When I informed HMRC of the fact, after the deadline, they merely amended my bill.

The smaller the contact patch the greater the pressure. And the greater the pressure the better the adhesion

Chapel-en-le-Frith cannot be reached by a rail replacement bus.

Bus drivers these days have to be content to accept Concessionary Travel Passes. 80% of the passengers seem to use them and the first bus after 0930 is always packed.

1978-9: the so called winter of discontent. But walking to school would have been a luxury for us. In 1963 we lived in an igloo in the school playground for six weeks.

I don't think that a passenger should have an expectations, let alone reasonable ones, that there will be some where warm to wait. Hundreds of small stations have nothing more than a simple, semi open and unheated, shelter. My local station has a wonderful warm cosy waiting room complete with...

I have had difficulty persuading bus drivers to accept Greater Manchester Wayfarers. They insist that it is a railway ticket. And to be fair it does look like a railway ticket.

Not only is the EU not stopping us leaving, it cannot stop us from leaving. The right to leave is set out in the treaty by which we joined and the EU is nothing if not bound by law. (Unlike the USA where they sacrificed almost a million lives to prevent a few members from ceding)