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There were problems with "cash" as the card registered to my Avanti account had had to be changed before its normal expiry date. My fault for not telling them. So I set up NR vouchers as a fall back which I am quite happy with. I don't do electronic banking.

Good news - my appeal was dealt with quickly & successfully & I have been promised a National Rail Voucher for the full £75.85 return fare.

The saga continues. Having submitted my claim by downloading the Avanti delay repay claim form & sending it & my tickets by freepost, I heard nothing for ages (3 weeks). Eventually I phoned & got through to their complaint resolution team and was told I should have claimed via the ticket...

The sight of Max Crocombe in the New Zealand goal brought back amusing memories of his time at Salford City in National League North. Max was sent off at Bradford for having a wee-wee behind his net three minutes from time. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41790381 Unfortunately I...

I wish I hadn't bought my train ticket and the hotel hadn't taken my money on Thursday. The game was all but lost on day 1 and I wouldn't have travelled. I was thus "treated" to 1.5 days of watching Yorkshire just going through the motions. Josh Davey, a slightly overweight 35 year old...

The 1929 Crewe to Chester extended to Swansea via Shrewsbury and Cardiff today. The departure boards at Crewe simply said Swansea P10 with nothing to suggest to normals that it was in fact going to Chester. Meanwhile Shrewsbury passengers were directed to rail replacement buses. And I heard no...

I thought you could use a ticket to travel to or from another station in the immediate vicinity provided the fare was no higher. I travelled to North and returned from South a few months ago with no problems. The fares were the same in my case.

Northern's Calder Valley to Chester services only run as far as Victoria on Sundays. This means Chester passengers have to cross to Piccadilly or Oxford Road to pick up a TfW service or take a Liverpool train to Newton-le-Willows and change there.

I remember a Barrow to Colchester through working in the early days of NW England to East Anglia services before these were simplified. It ran in the late 1980s or early 1990s. Me and the missus are almost certainly the only people to get on a train at Overpool and alight at Dent, returning...

With the move towards cashless payments, it will be interesting to see how many UK coins are ever minted bearing the head of our new King Charles III. Low denomination KCIII coins could become particularly rare given the numbers currently in circulation. Mintage figures can be found at...

When I lived in Hull in the early 1970s, having spent a weekend in Bradford watching Park Avenue and visiting relatives, I was delighted to be directed on to a Hull KR supporters special at Bradford Exchange with my weekend return (I think it was the new station now Interchange). KR had been...

Sadly this was utterly predictable given the exodus of players at Crusaders due to non payment of wages and London's table topping form. London, of course, were told they would be relegated from Super (sic) League at the start of last season, even if they finished first. Being at a loose end...

Shotton to Hawarden Bridge is about 0.5 miles by rail but 2.2 miles by road. However the railway bridge across the River Dee is part of a National Cycle Route so you can walk between the two stations.

Ironically New Pudsey replaced Stanningley for Farsley which was probably the intermediate station with the greatest number of pedestrian entries & exits on the entire Leeds Central - Bradford Exchange line. Pudsey itself was also served by stations at Greenside and Lowtown on a loop line...

Hooton station (730k entrances & exits/year + 94k interchanges) is in the middle of nowhere. It's about a mile down a poorly lit road to the village of Willaston and a little less, maybe 1 km, to Hooton itself. The bus service is poor, hourly SSuX, with none at all in the evenings or at...

I once took an Uber from Stafford to the Hawthorns one Sunday lunchtime when I was unexpectedly turfed out of my CRE-WVH train at STA for some unplanned reason or other. There was no time to mess about if I wanted to make the kick off. The plan had been to get the tram from WVH to the ground...

All fine in theory and if I'd been desperate for help with a taxi, I would have made the effort. Had I been stranded at Lime Street rather than Chester, which would have happened had I stayed on the 2039 beyond Crewe, I'd have tried harder to find somebody.

No time to talk to staff at Euston. When I dashed over to get the 2039 guessing the 2027 was going nowhere anytime soon, all the guy on the gate was interested in was marking my ticket to the extent that I almost missed the train. But he did at least tell me that it was going on time. Others...

You're right in principle but I didn't see a conductor on either the 2039 Avanti EUS-CRE or the 2307 TfW CRE-CTR and there was no sign of staff at CTR at 2330 where the ticket gates were open. Not sure where I'd be meant to look for help at CTR. Maybe just take a taxi from the rank outside &...

As Avanti's online delay repay system doesn't seem to cope with my situation, I submitted a claim by post using the form I downloaded. Let's see how they respond. And no, I didn't seek assistance at Chester. I wasn't sure what the procedure would be or, indeed, whether there would actually be...