Recent content by alansmithee

Hum... I live next to Junction, so I'd get that anyway - I will need to work this out... Actually - because I have a massive stack of northern free tickets - this also means I can get to york for free and need York to Edinburgh paid for...

Usually, this is easy - Burscough Junction to Preston and then I bish bosh go to Edinburgh. Except... it's bus replacement in various points, and I think Burscough Bridge to Manchester, then to york and then up that way is quicker. Forget price - is that logic correct regarding time? (and I...

The driver was asked who he was working for and he no idea only a 20-seater when I was there and thankfully I got on it and made it for the rail replacement bus in Wigan!

Thanks to Stafford?

So I'm trying to get from Bournemouth to Burscough. This train is going to terminate at Birmingham New Street and I'll be there about 3pm. As far as I can tell my best option is to get a train to Wolverhampton and Uber to Stafford and stafford to wigan and the (planned) rail replacement...

I do all of mine online and find it a very easy process because all of my tickets are digital. I must be over £2000 on avanti itself this year alone. On Northern we go for tickets rather than cash and the burscough junction to Omskirk is cancelled so often we have about 40 free tickets knocking...

Having now used this for a couple of weeks (I got a manchester one) - couple of observations: 1) I have yet to encounter a guard who has the equipment to check these - I just wave it in the air - you have to wonder how many people are riding up and down with empty cards and getting off at...

The software upgrades to these have been a disaster - every morning I watch people give up on buying a ticket because the machines are simply too complex to use. Even if you can use them you often end up punching the machine to get it to understand your selection...

Thanks for the answer - why can I travel beyond Salford Crescent ? Do they just group it with the main manchester stations for Season ticket purposes or is it because of some other rule?

So I am starting a new job and my annual season ticket will be from BCB to SLD - that is straight forward. However... an annual Season Ticket to Manchester stations is the same price. Looking at the National Rail T&C I cannot see anything that prevents me buying a season ticket to Manchester...