Recent content by dracos

I see the new Camp Hill line has so far led to two new easements, neither of which I understand :) Firstly: What is special about this one station on the Camp Hill line, and the one station on the cross-city line? Both stations (and all the other stations between Birmingham New Street and...

The National Rail journey planner will happily give you many journeys like that, e.g. https://traintimes.org.uk/bri/uni/1033/2026-04-16 so they certainly think that it is okay.

I'm getting reports of many broken lookups. e.g. Birmingham New Street to Darlaston next Monday, apparently no journeys...

I see the National Rail journey planner is giving two different ways of getting from New Street to Darlaston, though only one of those with a ticket. The hourly Shrewsbury service calling there, but if you've just missed it, it also shows going to Wolverhampton and coming back on the return...

Thanks, yeah, that was my conclusion, but thought I'd check :) The same, as far as I can see; Advance tickets up to the quota, ignores Advance entirely over the quota; won't let you buy an adult ticket with a Family Railcard on its own.

I received an email from ScotRail that Advance tickets had just gone on sale for a particular journey; I was looking to buy three tickets – two adults, one child, with a Family Railcard, one-way. If I enter those details, on a variety of different booking sites including this forum's, I am...

Thanks for your amazement; I'm not a mind-reader, so I don't know something is broken if no-one lets me know :) Have indeed had to make some changes recently, but hopefully via/avoid should work again now :) While I'm here, compared to the official site, you should still be able to view the...

Yeah; it does find it if you specify a via of BYB or DBY, e.g. http://split.traintimes.org.uk/SOT/SHF/y/10:00/16:00?via=DBY I of course realise you would have no way of knowing to do that, necessarily, though you might have seen the return journey (which was via Derby anyway) and tried it. But...

Thanks! It does enough for my needs, though I freely admit I'm not a novice :) Sorry I haven't had time to update to the 2017 prices yet, hopefully at some point soon.

Sorry about that, that journey currently involves a bus journey which is confusing it. It worked okay for my http://split.traintimes.org.uk/BRV/LDS/n/07:30/17:00 journey this morning, so that's good enough for me :-)

The National Rail one fetches data from the National Rail live departure boards and then interpolates/extrapolates based on that. The data refreshes every half hour or so, and carries on based upon the fetched information, so won't e.g. get immediate changes. So not totally accurate by any...

I made one that I would want to use :) I did look at existing ones - MSE's is singles only and can only be used five times a day(!); TCBC is certainly comprehensive but was very slow; splitticketing I personally found the site a bit fiddly to use, sorry, and it didn't seem to show...

Interesting, thanks :) I'll probably just update manually if someone lets me know of something wrong in such a case; it does at least always print the restrictions so you can check.

Thanks for the comments! Sorry that some of your looking coincided with some downtime due to the main traintimes.org.uk triggering National Rail's rate limiting (neither of us have yet worked out why, there hasn't been any change in traffic that I can see). It's hopefully working again now...

I imagine it's a typo, and it should say "...may travel via Birmingham New Street." in which case it makes sense? I'm reminded of the thread where this easement appeared: http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?p=346788#post346788 and the same kind of thing was said.