Transpennine Booking Horizons

[DeeGee]

http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/times_fares/ticket_types/44703.aspx

Only open until 10th July for Advance Tickets. I want to travel from Stevenage to Grimsby on the later afternoon of the 17th July.

The return trips via Lincoln are already £22.

Are there any reasons the release of quota is later than most others? Am I to expect engineering works?

Would you, in my position, get cheap quota on an Advance from SVG to Donaster and hope a £5 Advance comes up for DON-GMB, or just wait and hope for it to be released?

 

[swt_passenger]

It's nominally 12 weeks, but they don't update the forecast or websites every day. I'd expect it to change sometime this week.

 

[island]

FTPE like most other TOCs opens Advance sales around 12 weeks out but can be a little less for various reasons such as when engineering works have not been finalized.