Recent content by Sniffingmoose

Booking in advance puts me off train travel. When I was on holiday in Seville, Spain, I fancied a day out in Cordoba 90 miles away. When I looked into buying a ticket I soon realised that the trains to Cordoba were compulsory reservation only plus allow time for airport style security. Booking...

What about Anytime 1st single London Blackfriars to City Thamslink £6.20 1st class? About 0.4 miles and takes about 1 minute. No time to sit down. I guess its works out at about £15 per mile. Would anyone buy this ticket? Still may be someone can measure an accurate distance.

In Burton on Trent it is now £3 for any journey including from the station into town which is under a mile. I thought it was meant to be a cap not a blanket fare. So as I have to catch 2 buses to the station (2.5miles) I can buy a town day ticket costing £5.50 and guess what, the taxi fare to...

I travelled to the Isle of Man last August. Travelled on a Monday Its cheaper to travel on a weekday. With railcard discount it was £74 return. Bargain. I purchaced the ticket from Burton on Trent Ticket office. Just asked for a return to Douglas. I then phoned the Isle of Man steam packet to...

Well London Northwestern still advising today Monday 2nd there is ticket acceptance on East Midlands Railway but my Friend got refused boarding at St Pancras this morning to travel via Derby to Burton on Trent who is right? National rail advice or staff at St Pancras.

the Lichfield to Burton bus service is taking a lot longer at the moment because of a new weight limit at Branston Railway Bridge so busses are diverted and the A38 northbound slip road closure because of HS2 work meaning another long diversion so as a Burton Resident I would like a direct rail...

I had a week long holiday in the Isle of Man in July using sail rail. I travelled from Burton on Trent via Heysham. I purchased the ticket from Burton Ticket office the day before. The itinerary suggested was via Birmingham using the 10:07 Avanti service to Lancaster. I phoned the Isle Man Steam...

It's being discussed on LBC radio now. The presenter wants people to call in an explain to him what the LNER dispute is about.

Its a great ticket which I have tried twice starting from Birmingham and failed to accomplish the whole journey twice. 1st time I found that the Festiniog Railway did not do the who journey on a Friday and so I had to find and use a local bus to get to Blaenau Ffestiniog from Porthmadog. The...

I got this marketing email from Crosscountry today:- Flexible travel is now made even easier thanks to our partnership with Seatfrog. With Train Swap, you can change your train, without having to change your plans. Quote from the link:- "Flexible travel is now made even easier thanks to our...

If some of the restrictions are unpublished how can the average passenger know about them? For example, how would you stand buying a super off peak return from a ticket machine or ticket office with no itinerary which requires a connecting service to the London North Western train such as from...

At Four Oaks bay platform today just before settling off for Redditch.

Probably not a popular view on here but money is too short so I really hope its not restarted. There are a lot more priorities than this project outside the railway. Also the industry and goverment has a lot to do to improve industrial relations in the rail industry first so we get a reliable 7...

I believe rail is still competative despite the high Crosscountry price. I have a 60 mile round trip to Birmingham Airport plus at Birmingham Airport you have to pay to drop someone off! Plus the clock ticks for every 10 minutes waiting I believe, so if the flight is delayed. What a rip off. The...

Thought I would share my experiences of buying Birmingham Plus Bus Tickets. As I understand, if buying Plus Bus for Birmingham or Wolverhampton you have to travel by train from outside the area covered to eligable to buy one, so in this case from outside the Westmidlands county. When I have...