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Hi all, Just had a friend come to me to ask advice about getting from Chichester to Oxford. He was quite confused, as different booking applications (Trainline, NRE, Trainpal etc) were giving different trains for a journey from Chichester to Oxford. Some digging on my part revealed that while...

Pewsey to Westbury. 17-18 mins by train, 42 mins in clear traffic

What's the N&P?

Well there is still no confirmation that the X3 will actually run beyond the end of next week. According to Whippet's news page, updated today, they still haven't received confirmation that they will be getting the £10k from the mayor to continue until March. There's a lot of disgruntlement...

There's also speculation Stagecoach might take it over as an extension to the 18... https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/x3-whippet-papworth-everard-bus-15279800

Chat about this on Radio Cambridgeshire this morning. One of the local youg users is working very hard to get the decision reversed. Interview starts 8 mins in: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p06lsdmj

It can be awful for much of the day, particularly with the current A14 roadworks. Friday mornings always tend to be much better, I guess because a lot of people do part time on that day. Papworth is turning into a bit of a sustainable transport blackspot in Cambridgeshire. The village has been...

Stagecoach East's twitter feed implied that the council have already asked them. They haven't responded one way or the other, but can see them being reluctant given the inevitable punctuality hit their Cambourne services would take (congestion to/from Caxton Gibbet roundabout in the morning can...

Long time lurker, but never started a thread on here. However, another round of bus cuts seem likely in Cambridgeshire, owing to Whippet's decision to stop running their X3 (Cambridge to Huntingdon via Papworth and Cambourne) and C (Cambridge to St Ives via busway) services. Link below...

Thank you all for your helpful advice, and confirming what I thought was the case. What is weird is that it doesn't show as a Day Train in, e.g. the National Rail planning tool, but if you search on Serco's website (www.sleeper.scot) it is there (under the National Rail tab). If they are trying...

Just a quick one. Am I right in saying that daytime tickets (e.g. an Anytime Day Return) can be used on the Caledonian sleeper on the West Highland Line? It seems to imply this on the Sleeper website, but was wondering as I am holidaying in Tyndrum next week and was wanting to travel northwards...