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    661Z - Grangemouth to Sinfin - 150 late

    Service 661Z, Grangemouth Ineos to Sinfin Sidings, broke down 'near Longton', departing 141 minutes late. Anyone know what the loco was, the problem causing the delay and a more exact location? No passenger trains from Stoke to Derby yet today :cry: Realtime trains reveals a very...
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    Refusing tickets issued by ticket clerk?

    Last week I bought a '4 days in 8 Freedom of the North West' rover ticket. :D The ticket clerk processed my request and the machine printed out the 'rover' ticket but no 'date boxes' ticket.:( After going away from his counter into the back room (telephone call for advice?), he returned...
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    Southern Off-peak Daysave

    Can they only be collected from Southern operated station TVM's or can they now be collected from any TVM? You used to only be able to buy the Daysave from a seperate Southern website, now they are on the main journey planner. I have bought one, selected TOD from Milton Keynes (which is...
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    Accurate, correct, sensible information to the public

    The following was taken from National Rail Enquiries a few minutes ago. "Following the recent poor weather, there was a major landslip near to Ockley. Because of this, buses will run between these stations, extending journey times by up to 45 minutes. In addition to this, buses will also...
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    Clarification of ticket purchase requirements when boarding at an unstaffed station

    I am aware of the thread on the ‘disputes’ section but it does not deal with the specific issue at hand, rather it discusses whether people who had passed a ticket office / TVM had had an opportunity to purchase. Clear in my view but there you go. However, if a passenger boards a train at an...
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    Query - inadvertent fare evasion?

    A passenger boards a train at Longton, Staffordshire (no ticket office, no TVM, no permit machine, not in the EMT or LM penalty fare area so allowed to buy the full range of tickets on the train). He does the short hop to Stoke-on-Trent (2.3 miles, conductor busy selling tickets to other...
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    Virgin Trains to Shrewsbury

    The December 2013 timetable discussion notes the combination of London to Wolverhampton and Birmingham to Scotland services at Birmingham / Wolverhampton. Such a move prevents the extension of current Wolverhampton terminating trains through to Shrewsbury (or heaven forbid, Aberystwyth)...

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