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Seems like it was a bit of a shambles. Have done some digging and on the evening NRE tweeted at 21.36 that LM had "requested" buses to run, but whether these turned up or not I've no idea. Yes I had a paper ticket. Exactly my point, Hartford isn't staffed at that hour and the departure screens...

Hi All, On Friday 6th October 2017 me and a friend tried to travel from Hartford to Liverpool Central, via Liverpool South Parkway. We intended to catch the 21:47 service from Hartford, but on arrival at the station we discovered this train and all subsequent trains were cancelled due to a...

Hi All, Is there a facility to find out how much the cheapest possible advance tickets are ie. not the cheapest possible ones available for a specific day, but the cheapest possible ones which ever get put out to release. For example, the cheapest advance ticket from CRE-EUS, is it £10...

Just a quick one - Using an off peak return from Leeds to Northwich. Is there anything stopping me, on the return portion of the ticket, changing off the Northern service going from Northwich-Stockport, gettin into Stockport at xx:14 and jumping on the xx:16 Virgin non stop to Piccadilly? Tend...

Thanks for your comments, all. Very much appreciated!

Thanks 30907. So whichever TOC sets the price of the slow isn't relevant?

Hi All, I'm looking for some clarification as to the off peak/peak rules on Virgin services with a railcard. I booked in advance an off peak return using a 16-25 and senior railcard for use on the 08:01 VT service from Crewe to New St. I could select this ticket on the booking site I used...

I would be very tempted to send a firmly worded letter to Virgin Trains making it clear you are unhappy, that you have complained multiple times about this issue before and not yet seen it addressed, inconvenienced by having to go out of your way to sort the issues at Victoria/Oxford Road and...

This. For better or worse most TMs/Guards will not issue fines/delay the train for BTP backup for people sitting in reserved seats. Should there be something TMs can do without facing repercussions from management for people refusing to move from reserved seats? Yes. Is there? No. Possibly a...

Hi All, Wondering if anyone could help me out. I'm interested to know how many sets (and how they were made up) VT had before the Pendolinos and Voyagers came in. Obviously they had a mix of 86s, 87s, 90s, 47s, DVTs and HSTs but how many did they have of each? Naturally it's not as clear cut...

This may be a bit of a swooping statement but the Crewe - Derby seems to be affected by problems quite often...

Ah, thanks Matt, do you get access to the lounge in Euston as well, and is there just the one round of drinks on the trip?

Having only ever travelled in the mid-week with VT I am curious as to what to expect from VT's weekend offering?

is this a recent change? its lunacy... had exactly the same scenario depicted by beeza1 happen to someone on my train out of Manchester...

There's some degree of truth to that, Virgin don't get as tarnished as they could do by delays out of their control - they do get some though, have seen a group of businessmen shouting the VT office down when there was a person hit by a train down south.