Newspaper Promotions

[Tyke Toper]

Yorkshire Post - £8 Advance STD Singles on East Coast from Leeds, Wakefield or York to London or Edinburgh.
Newspaper tokens required. Details http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/custompages/CustomPage.aspx?pageID=82916

Newcastle Chronicle also has a similar offer from £4 to £9 depending on destination. Details http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/lifestyle/competitions/rail-offer/

 

[ainsworth74]

I was just looking at that and found this:

*PLEASE NOTE: If travelling from Hull, Brough or Selby on a connecting train service to London, a change is required Doncaster onto a National Express East Coast service.

Perhaps someone should tell them?

 

[142094]

Evening Gazette are also doing this, also the Yorkshire Evening Post (different to the Yorkshire Post). Evening Gazette and Evening Chronicle offer needs 6 tokens PER PERSON (not group of four as it used to be).

 

[John @ home]

Evening Gazette and Evening Chronicle offer needs 6 tokens PER PERSON (not group of four as it used to be).

This is not the case with the Yorkshire Evening Post.

you need to collect four tokens from The Yorkshire Evening Post. ... with one set of tokens, up to four people can travel together.

 

[142094]

Exactly, which is a good thing when living in York and not in Newcastle. Must be some sort of arrangement with the different papers - Evening Chronicle and Gazette are both Trinity Mirror papers whereas Yorkshire Post/YEP are both the same company.
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Can't seem to find a link anymore for the YEP offer, seems to have disapperared from the front page.

 

[John @ home]

Can't seem to find a link anymore for the YEP offer.

This link works for me.

If your cookies have expired you may have to edit the Book Now link to change the ending from ...&isAllowed=False to ...&isAllowed=True

 

[142094]

This link works for me.

Keep getting a Bad Request. Will have a try later on.

 

[alanf]

Has anyone ever had to show the guard their paper vouchers? I never have.

Alan

 

[scotsman]

Has anyone ever had to show the guard their paper vouchers? I never have.

Alan

Not even when we did NX's Birthday Deal (any NX destination £5 single)

The thing is that these tickets don't always make it clear it's a promotional fare and not all promo fares come with vouchers. So the Guard doesn't always know if he needs a voucher or not, sometimes they don't even realise since they're just checking that the ticket is valid.

ALSO: I once came across a voucher being used as a ticket! Highland News (or whatever it's called, some crappy freebie) had 2 for 1 offer on the Strathspey. The Station staff weren't sure what to do, so they issued one ticket and wrote the details down on the voucher for the second one, bless them. I had a hell of a time working out what was going on.

 

[John @ home]

Has anyone ever had to show the guard their paper vouchers?

Once. Two adults and a child under 5 were travelling Leeds - London using two £8 Standard Reader Offer tickets earning NXEC a total of £16. We were having meals in First Class accommodation in the Restaurant, an activity specifically permitted by adverts in the company's timetable and website.

The ticket inspector viewed our tickets, asked for and inspected the vouchers, pointed out that we would need to retain the vouchers to show on the London - Leeds journey, and had a quiet word with the person in charge of the restaurant (am I the only person who thinks that Chief Steward was a far better job title than Customer Service Leader?) as we passed through Grantham.

The Customer Service Leader must have been rather busy because he only found time to pass on the "instructions" to ensure we left our seats promptly on completion of our meal as we passed through Alexandra Palace.

 

[142094]

Has anyone ever had to show the guard their paper vouchers? I never have.

Alan

Once before, used them around 5 seperate times since. Could probably book a few journeys and only use the one set of tokens.

 

[yorkie]

Has anyone ever had to show the guard their paper vouchers? I never have.

Alan

I have never been asked and no-one else I know (other than people posting in this topic) ever has. The guards have no way of knowing which voucher (if any) is required either, as the tickets simply say "Reader Offer". Sounds like there's perhaps one guard on the Leeds-London run who asks for the vouchers, as John was asked once and there was an incident posted by here from someone who had a demand for £100+ from EC because they didn't have a voucher. If this guard is avoided then you should be OK. Even the notoriously 'desperate' Newcastle guards don't ask for them in my experience (they're probably too busy dealing with other misdemeanours that are more enforceable)