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td97
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£3 return promotion for Bolton to Manchester on Thursdays
£1.50 advances each way, so not actually a return ticket, only bookable 3+ days out, specific trains only... so not flexible. Cue someone thinking they've got a return, as that's what the advert says, and their £3 Thursday turns into a £6.40 Thursday when they get on the "wrong" train and get excessed to a new single 
They should just introduce a temporary "Northern only" day return at £3...
They should just introduce a temporary "Northern only" day return at £3...
And only available on their website and app, in limited numbers (they're not available on all services and not at all on connections), which is presumably why they're not doing it as a day return (and it tells you it's booked seats, too).£1.50 advances each way, so not actually a return ticket, only bookable 3+ days out, specific trains only... so not flexible. Cue someone thinking they've got a return, as that's what the advert says, and their £3 Thursday turns into a £6.40 Thursday when they get on the "wrong" train and get excessed to a new single
They should just introduce a temporary "Northern only" day return at £3...
Kite159
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That seems to be a strange promotion, trying to complete with the local buses from Bolton & Manchester (assuming such things exist)?
td97
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There is a lot of new capacity that was added in December. Blackburn - Rochdale is 2tph, and the Cumbria services were rerouted that way too.
20 minutes on the train vs 80 minutes on a bus. Not really competing with each other.
There's a couple of bus services that are about an hour, both every 12 minutes, potentially stopping much closer to where people are starting and finishing their journeys than having to go to/from the rail station at both ends. And currently significantly cheaper than the train.
Of course if you get a £1.50 advance it's no longer relevant that the train is every 20 minutes as you have only one you can get with that ticket, whilst any bus is £2.
Trying to stimulate demand was my thought, or perhaps trying to win over car drivers (for whom it'd take just over 30 minutes to get to Manchester).
miklcct
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Last year I booked a journey on the South Coast through Scotrail when it participated in Topcashback but I didn't receive any cashback. I lodged a missing claim and it took the retailer a year to respond, and the response now is "Cashback only valid on Scottish journeys".
Skymonster
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Northern’s £10 anywhere in a day / £17.50 anywhere over a weekend offer in conjunction with newspaper vouchers is back…
www.northernrailway.co.uk
Interestingly the email I received says two tokens whereas the promotion online says three.
Unlimited Rail Travel with National World
Northern | Buy Cheap Train Tickets and Check Train Times
Interestingly the email I received says two tokens whereas the promotion online says three.
CaptainHaddock
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"National World" newspapers? Has Johnston Press been taken over?Northern’s £10 anywhere in a day / £17.50 anywhere over a weekend offer in conjunction with newspaper vouchers is back…
Unlimited Rail Travel with National World
Northern | Buy Cheap Train Tickets and Check Train Times
Interestingly the email I received says two tokens whereas the promotion online says three.
The online forms downloadable on your link have space for three tokens so I would assume you need three rather than two.
Rail Ranger
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None of the papers are in the Greater Manchester/Cheshire/Merseyside area (except two in Wigan) unless I've missed something.
These are the participating papers in Reach PLC where only two tokens are needed.
| Paper | Date |
| Hull Daily Mail | 13/02/23 - 25/02/23 |
| Stoke Sentinel | 13/02/23 - 25/02/23 |
| Newcastle Chronicle | 13/02/23 - 25/02/23 |
| Journal | 13/02/23 - 25/02/23 |
| Teesside Gazette | 13/02/23 - 25/02/23 |
| Liverpool Echo | 13/02/23 - 25/02/23 |
| Manchester Evening News | 13/02/23 - 25/02/23 |
| Paper | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 |
| Scunthorpe Telegraph | w/c 13/02/23 | w/c 20.02.23 | w/c 27.02.23 |
| Lincolnshire Echo | w/c 13/02/23 | w/c 20.02.23 | w/c 27.02.23 |
| Sunday Sun | w/c 13/02/23 | w/c 20.02.23 | w/c 27.02.23 |
| MEN on Sunday | w/c 13/02/23 | w/c 20.02.23 | w/c 27.02.23 |
| Liverpool Echo on Sunday | w/c 13/02/23 | w/c 20.02.23 | w/c 27.02.23 |
| Chester Chronicle | w/c 13/02/23 | w/c 20.02.23 | w/c 27.02.23 |
| Runcorn/Widnes Weekly | w/c 13/02/23 | w/c 20.02.23 | w/c 27.02.23 |
| Macclesfield Express | w/c 13/02/23 | w/c 20.02.23 | w/c 27.02.23 |
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NorthWestRover
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The form has space for three tokens, says two in the blurb and elsewhere says three. Lol.
DaveB10780
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Oddly my local paper the Buxton Advertiser seems to have gone from the list. Makes it a little more challenging.
These are the participating papers in National World where 3 tokens are required.
| Paper | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 |
| Yorkshire Post (Daily) | w/c 13/2/23 | w/c 20/2/23 | w/c/27/2/23 |
| Yorkshire Evening Post (Daily) | w/c 13/2/23 | w/c 20/2/23 | w/c/27/2/23 |
| Wakefield Express | 16/02/2023 | 23/02/2023 | 02/03/2023 |
| Pontefract & Castleford Express | 16/02/2023 | 23/02/2023 | 02/03/2023 |
| Halifax & Valleys | | | |
| Halifax Courier | 16/02/2023 | 23/02/2023 | 02/03/2023 |
| Brighouse Echo | 16/02/2023 | 23/02/2023 | 02/03/2023 |
| Hebden and Todmorden Times | 16/02/2023 | 23/02/2023 | 02/03/2023 |
| Dewsbury and Mirfield Reporter | 16/02/2023 | 23/02/2023 | 02/03/2023 |
| Batley and Birstall News | 16/02/2023 | 23/02/2023 | 02/03/2023 |
| Spenborough Guardian | 16/02/2023 | 23/02/2023 | 02/03/2023 |
| North Yorkshire Titles | | | |
| Harrogate Advertiser Series | 16/02/2023 | 23/02/2023 | 02/03/2023 |
| Knaresborough Post (Part of HAS Series) | 16/02/2023 | 23/02/2023 | 02/03/2023 |
| Ripon Gazette (Part of HAS Series) | 16/02/2023 | 23/02/2023 | 02/03/2023 |
| Wetherby News (Part of HAS Series) | 16/02/2023 | 23/02/2023 | 02/03/2023 |
| Nidd/Pateley Bridge (Part of HAS Series) | 16/02/2023 | 23/02/2023 | 02/03/2023 |
| Scarborough Evening News | 16/02/2023 | 23/02/2023 | 02/03/2023 |
| Bridlington Free Press | 16/02/2023 | 23/02/2023 | 02/03/2023 |
| Whitby Gazette | 16/02/2023 | 23/02/2023 | 02/03/2023 |
| South Yorkshire Titles | | | |
| The Star | w/c 13/2/23 | w/c 20/2/23 | wc/27/2/23 |
| Sheffield Telegraph | 16/02/2023 | 23/02/2023 | 02/03/2023 |
| Doncaster Free Press | 16/02/2023 | 23/02/2023 | 02/03/2023 |
| Worksop Guardian | 17/02/2023 | 24/02/2023 | 03/03/2023 |
| Gainsborough Standard | 16/02/2023 | 23/02/2023 | 02/03/2023 |
| Derbyshire Times | 16/02/2023 | 23/02/2023 | 02/03/2023 |
| North West Titles | | | |
| Blackpool Gazette | w/c 13/2/23 | w/c 20/2/23 | wc/27/2/23 |
| Lancashire Post | w/c 13/2/23 | w/c 20/2/23 | wc/27/2/23 |
| Wigan Post | 17/02/2023 | 24/02/2023 | 03/03/2023 |
| Wigan Observer | 14/02/2023 | 21/02/2023 | 28/02/2023 |
| Chorley Guardian | 14/02/2023 | 21/02/2023 | 28/02/2023 |
| Burnley Express Friday | 17/02/2023 | 24/02/2023 | 03/03/2023 |
| Nelson Leader | 17/02/2023 | 24/02/2023 | 03/03/2023 |
| Clitheroe Advertiser | 16/02/2023 | 23/02/2023 | 02/03/2023 |
| Lancaster Guardian | 16/02/2023 | 23/02/2023 | 02/03/2023 |
| North East Titles | | | |
| Hartlepool Mail | 16/02/2023 | 23/02/2023 | 02/03/2023 |
| Sunderland Echo | w/c 13/2/23 | w/c 20/2/23 | wc/27/2/23 |
Participating Papers - National World
Northern | Buy Cheap Train Tickets and Check Train Times
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Kite159
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It would be so much better if they did away with the need for newspaper vouchers and just had the online form to download. Or even have instructions to buy the rangers online to have it as an e-ticket (similar style to the Friends & Family tickets)
Like London Midland did with the Great Escape tickets.
Like London Midland did with the Great Escape tickets.
adrock1976
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Regarding the Sunday Sun, is this a Murdoch rag that replaced the News of the World, or is this a different Sunday Sun?
No, that's the Sun on Sunday.
This is the Sunday version of the Chronicle.
Sunday Sun - North East news, sport and what's on
Founded in 1919, the Sunday Sun newspaper is one of the oldest regional Sunday newspapers in the UK. It is the sister paper of The Chronicle, The Journal and The Gazette and is owned by Trinity Mirror. The Sunday Sun features unrivalled sports coverage, from grassroots to professional level, as...
Haywain
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Wouldn't be much of a partnership with the newspapers though, would it?
Presumably far fewer people who aren't regular users of the railway would find out about it without a daily advert in the paper (not at typical advertising rates as people will buy more papers to take advantage of the offer).
Kite159
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Most will simply buy it for the token and bin it without even reading the delights of the adventure of Mrs Jones and her bins or Mr Smith and his bad workmanship from some dodgy fly by night builders.
Those local 'news'papers will simply get a small boost for the days/weeks the promotion is on before not getting purchased.
Most will simply buy it for the token and bin it without even reading the delights of the adventure of Mrs Jones and her bins or Mr Smith and his bad workmanship from some dodgy fly by night builders.
Haywain
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And yet you think it would be better if they didn't sell any additional copies?
ServerHoster
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Do you have to collect one token per week? Or, can you buy 2 papers at the same time, and use 1 token from each?
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You can buy an unlimited number of newspapers on any given day.
If it's the same as previous years, most/all tokens are identical anyway.
adrock1976
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No, that's the Sun on Sunday.
This is the Sunday version of the Chronicle.
Sunday Sun - North East news, sport and what's on
Founded in 1919, the Sunday Sun newspaper is one of the oldest regional Sunday newspapers in the UK. It is the sister paper of The Chronicle, The Journal and The Gazette and is owned by Trinity Mirror. The Sunday Sun features unrivalled sports coverage, from grassroots to professional level, as...www.chroniclelive.co.uk
Many thanks.
A quick scroll back to post 4571 will yield your answer.