londonbridge
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As posted in the thread on this weekends problems due to flooding, yesterday I was travelling from London to Shrewsbury for football. Tickets held were London Northwestern advance singles from Euston-Wolverhampton and Wolverhampton-Euston, and a standard any permitted off peak day return between Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury. Tickets were purchased online through the Chiltern Railways website.
Got to Wolverhampton okay and found there were no trains to Shrewsbury due to the flooding. Spoke to a staff member who said they might be able to provide replacement buses, but with no timescale for those, nor when services might be running again, I teamed up with several other supporters and shared a taxi to Shrewsbury. This was obviously not sanctioned by any TOC and I'm not bothered about claiming any of it back.
After the match I checked realtime trains which indicated some trains were running back down to Birmingham, so I headed for Shrewsbury station and got a Transport For Wales service back to Wolverhampton and my booked train back to London.
I'm guessing that in theory all I should be claiming for is the outward portion of the Wolverhampton-Shrewsbury return on the basis of it being unused due to disruption, but could I actually claim anything else, such as starting and abandoning my outward journey?
So as per thread title, what am I entitled to claim and who should I claim it from? Any advice gratefully received.
Got to Wolverhampton okay and found there were no trains to Shrewsbury due to the flooding. Spoke to a staff member who said they might be able to provide replacement buses, but with no timescale for those, nor when services might be running again, I teamed up with several other supporters and shared a taxi to Shrewsbury. This was obviously not sanctioned by any TOC and I'm not bothered about claiming any of it back.
After the match I checked realtime trains which indicated some trains were running back down to Birmingham, so I headed for Shrewsbury station and got a Transport For Wales service back to Wolverhampton and my booked train back to London.
I'm guessing that in theory all I should be claiming for is the outward portion of the Wolverhampton-Shrewsbury return on the basis of it being unused due to disruption, but could I actually claim anything else, such as starting and abandoning my outward journey?
So as per thread title, what am I entitled to claim and who should I claim it from? Any advice gratefully received.