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    Special Offers Discussion

    Transport for Wales - Sale on Advance tickets. https://tfw.wales/ways-to-travel/rail/savings-and-offers/advance-sale I was surprised not to get any email notification as I generally get the TFW alerts. Fares are visible on National Rail, Forum site and other sites but not on TPE mixing desk...
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    Trivia: shortest path to reverse a train from a terminus platform

    Post 44 suggests Platform 3 Rock Ferry - Liverpool Loop - Rock Ferry is shorter.
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    Major / trunk roads built upon former railway routes?

    Surprised no-one's mentioned A59 from M53 to Wallasey - Liverpool tunnel along the old Seacombe line.
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    Station pubs (part two?)

    Amended. Last Saturday, with no exceptional major events in the region, the gateline queues to enter the platforms would have prevented arriving passengers from even seeing the projected bar. Waiting time was up to 3 minutes. Arriving passengers frequently back up the steps and across the...
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    Transport for Wales Class 230

    I think the £2 weekend tickets were only available in January.
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    Avanti Chester-Crewe-London Saturday mornings

    Agreed, but I was referring to the cancellation of the 0832 originating at Chester. Hopefully, after Jan 18, this will return to normal operation after a long absence.
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    Avanti Chester-Crewe-London Saturday mornings

    Thanks for quick and clear response. On the 18th the service doesn't appear to be curtailed to Crewe, rather totally cancelled. Following the repeated cancellations over recent months, can we expect the service to be timetabled regularly in future, when not affected by engineering works?
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    Avanti Chester-Crewe-London Saturday mornings

    Can anyone explain why the Saturday 0832 departure from Chester is timetabled so erratically? It is advertised to run this Saturday (11 Jan) but not the 18th. It hasn't run regularly for months, despite providing useful and popular connections at Crewe for the LNWR stopper to London, the EMR to...
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    Bus Pass query

    The rules produce some real anomalies. (West Cheshire) CWAC-issued pass allows free travel if boarding within CWAC area Mon-Fri from 0930 until last bus and all day Saturday and Sunday. If boarding outside CWAC area, free travel is allowed Mon-Fri from 0930 until 2300 and all day Saturday and...
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    Greek Railways

    Wondering if anyone has any knowledge of future developments of the Greek Rail system, particularly the following: Completion date for direct services Athens-Patras - this seems to have been going on for ever. Mesolonghi-Agrinio line - surprised to see so much unused good quality track this...
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    trivia songs that mention trains/ railways

    A few I haven't seen mentioned: HMHB – Light at the End of the Tunnel Al Stewart – Roads to Moscow Jefferson Airplane – Milk Train Janis Ian - Tea and Sympathy Joni Mitchell – Just like this Train Lindisfarne – Train in G Major Mountain – Great Train Robbery Move - Wave the Flag and Stop...
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    *International* Guess The Station

    Yes - it was - deleted it as I thought it hadn't uploaded correctly. Your turn.
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    Major change at Merseytravel as historic name to go

    Mersey Estuary & Coastal Area - MECA - sure to attract visitors.
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    Problem renewing railcard online

    After numerous attempts on different days/devices, all of which produced the same error message, I contacted the Railcard team via the web page, received an email the next day suggesting renewing over the phone, which I did in less than 5 minutes. No explanation of why the problem may have occurred.
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    Problem renewing railcard online

    I thought that might be the reason but as it's 29 days till expiry it should work or at least give a sensible error message. I'll try again in a day or so.
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    Problem renewing railcard online

    I've had problems attempting to renew a railcard which expires soon. On logging into my account I select my current railcard. When I get to the renewal screen I am able to choose duration and card type but the field 'Who is this for?' is greyed out and pressing 'Continue' gives an...
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    Finland ticketing and fares

    En ole suomalainen, mutta asuin siella monta vuottaa sitten! Thanks again - I'm trying to plan for a Helsinki airport connection north and have found a good train fare, but that connection may fail if the flight is delayed. I think I'll buy it and if the flight departure looks to be delayed...

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