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My situation was that there was no indication at the time of exiting Man Vic that there might be subsequent delays, so I didn't even consider there might be a problem. However all points taken, and in future if I'm leaving a station between connections I will take a photo just in case. Thanks...

My main concern in the small print for Bournemouth Central PI is "we are trying to get the lift mended, the lift is currently not working for your stay dates" or words to that effect. Given there's 8 or 9 floors, and the Premier Plus rooms tend to be on the higher floors, this is somewhat...

Thank you! Have just cancelled and rebooked two upcoming stays, and saved nearly £300 in the process when I include the free breakfasts x 2 of us x 6 nights. Appreciate bookings are now non-refundable, but it's worth a gamble.

Wouldn't this count as an abandoned journey due to disruption, and qualify for a full ticket refund? Or is that not how it works?

The ToD machine at Hereford always used to give a second CCST "receipt" automatically after your ticket came out, but the last couple of years that no longer happens. Must admit I always thought it was a waste of paper, most people walked off without waiting for it anyway or threw it on the...

Made it! The principle remains though, do they go on trust when one ticket of a multi-leg multi-ticket journey is missing?

All good advice for future reference, but in this case it’s too late to do any of it apart from maybe submitting a photo of my booking confirmation in place of the relevant ticket photo. At the time I exited Man Vic I wasn’t expecting to become delayed as everything was showing on time at that...

This hasn’t happened yet today but it might if my next train gets any later so that I miss my final train, all on Advance split tickets. All paper tickets. Potential case in point: Scarborough to Manchester Victoria Advance - arrived on time and I nipped through the barriers, which retained my...

Was it being driven at the time? Could have been nasty for any driver/passengers on it.

Are we sure it's not an AI photo?

Avanti's system was good (not sure if it is still happening, haven't seen it for a while), where the electronic reservation display changes to "available if unoccupied" a few minutes after departing the station from where the reservation applied. Obviously this would be trickier with paper...

Or automatic ticket acceptance on any and every service that does manage to run.

Further to my comment above about being auto-reserved into a seat where the adjacent one is already taken, on thinking about it I guess it’s to save seat clusters/pairs for people travelling together. It’s a bit overkill though, as it’s natural to prefer a bit of personal space, so most people...

How does anyone know whether they will be able to "hold on" when boarding a train with a view to the next toilet stop being over two hours away? Especially with small children, who have no concept of planning ahead, and seem to be permanently consuming juice drinks. In hot weather people will...

There’s only four (or is it five?) cubicles for ladies at Preston, and there’s usually a queue at the best of times. Not ideal for potentially 100+ desperate women to find on arrival!