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There used to be an arrangement to wait in an adjacent hotel for the sleeper at Carlisle. Does anyone know whether that still is the case?

Why does Avanti close its shops prior to Preston and reopen after departure. I guess the excuse is crew changes. But do other companies do it. I can’t remember it on LNER but maybe LNER manage to operate with one crew throughout a journey. Or maybe they don’t make announcements.

It was recently showing a 22 car Pendolino from Edinburgh to Euston with separate train numbers.

It’s weird that you can buy a Saveaway from a Northern ticket machine (paper) but not from a Merseyrail ticket machine like at Bache where there is no ticket office. Nor can you buy it online through the Metro app for your smart card.

It would be useful if the app or ticket machines showed the discount applied. I have a disabled railcard. The railcard that was added in error was a National railcard. I only noticed something was amiss when a particular journey seemed to be usually high. I think something to do with different...

But if you have a railcard, you should get an Oyster card and have your railcard discount added to the Oyster card, by asking an assistant at the ticket machines.

I wanted an off peak return. When I got to station B, I found there were replacement buses laid on, but they were not shown on the rail planner. So just really wasted the cost of a bus fare. I know I can use the ticket on any off peak trains. Just worried that it might be packed. It wasn’t...

Does anyone know how to buy an return ticket when a train is partly cancelled. I wanted an off peak return between A and C via B. The price is the same for A to C as for B to C. In the past I would just go to a station and buy a return ticket but station A is not manned and B needs a car...

If you use the TPE app you get different fares depending on whether you specify “Return” or “Open Return”. Not unexpected because you expect advance tickets might be cheaper, but actually these tickets may prove cheaper and are only revealed if you choose “Open Return”.

Will this be the first time that Platform 3 has had an electric train since it was electrified as the start of the aborted Windermere electrification?

There are three city transport ticket machines in Central station at the middle entrance but they are pretty erratic and especially choosy about acceptance of UK cards.

Bit miffed. Just bought a ticket covered by the promotion, not knowing about it. The Northern App did not automatically apply the discount. You’ve got to enter the promotional code, if you know it. The promotion is probably a response to the timetable crisis last year but seems to be designed...

It a way it mirrors Stagecoach tactics in the bus industry in the 1980s that led to the end of municipal bus corporations and Stagecoach’s dominance.

But what if by the time you were due to travel the disruption had largely stopped. My situation. I had advance LNER tickets. It was for the last train of the day. I became aware of the disruption and so was a little worried. When I looked at the LNER and NR sites it said you could travel...

I too have neither a battery book nor a card. I sent them copies of the relevant letters that I had about my aid, and they were accepted as evidence.