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Does anyone have any experience of using one of these tickets? I do know that they can only be purchased at a small number of Tourist Information Centres and not online or at any station. How do they work regarding purchasing in advance and date of travel etc? I'm staying in North London for a...

The following is taken from the BBC Nottingham website: A £570m extension to Nottingham's tram network has been given final approval, the city council has confirmed. Work on the construction of two new lines, which will extend the tram system to Chilwell and Clifton, is expected to start...

Next month I will spending a few days on the Wirral and want to use the train to visit Liverpool, Chester, Southport etc. Although I'm staying at Neston, Hooton will be a more convenient station to use and I wondered what the parking situation was like there mid morning. I know that there are...

I'm staying with friends near Blackpool next week and will be once again making use of the excellent value 7 Day NW Rover. On Saturday 28th May I am planning to go to Carlisle using the 1346 Virgin Trains service that is diverted via Hellifield and Settle and arrives in Carlisle at 1609. This...

I have on a few occasions made use of the Souther DaySave Ticket, which even with the price increase is fantastic vaue at only £12 for a whole day off peak travel on all Southern trains. In April I am staying with friends in Croydon and I m considering getting a DaySave Weekly Ticket, which...

I know that we were all warned to expect large price increases in January but I've just discovered that a local journey to me, Mansfield to Sheffield, is increasing by what seems to be an excessive amount. I am sure that there are many more similar examples but this is one, for a road journey of...

I've just returned from a holiday in Cumbria staying near Ulverston during which I enjoyed a number of day trips out by train. The only thing which spoilt these outings, especially as I was travelling with two elderly relatives, was the the very bad overcrowding on many services between...

Having read a number of threads concerning people being charged wrongly for national rail journeys using Pay as You Go on an Oyster Card, I thought some people may be interested to know what happened to me earlier this year: First here is the email that I sent to the Oyster Customer Services...

I'm quite used to using rover tickets and so I know all the rules and regulations regarding their use etc. and how you can only buy them 3 days before their start date. The question I want to ask is can you buy them on the train if your first journey begins at an unstaffed station? I'm wanting...

When attempting to book a train ticket on the East Coast site from Hucknall, on the Nottingham to Worksop line, to London, I found some very strange journeys available. There were a number of journeys, many AP tickets, that included a connection from Hucknall to Nottingham by Metro! Whilst...

Later this summer I am staying for a few days with friends in Lancashire and I notice that there are some very cheap AP tickets available most days from Preston to destinations in Scotland. By cheap I am talking about only £15 single for an AP ticket to destinations such as Aberdeen or Aviemore...

Next Sunday I am travelling from Nottingham to London Kings Cross with an AP Ticket. My train from Nottinham arrives in Grantham at 1531 and my connection to London is not until 1632. I'm fully aware about break of journey not being allowed with AP tickets but wondered if the staff at...

I'm travelling from Nottingham to London (via Grantham) on the afternoon of Sunday 4th April (Easter Sunday) and I notice that my train is booked to take 90 minutes between Peterborough and Kings Cross. I just wondered what work is actually taking place and whether there is any chance of an...

Sorry for the long details but I thought some people may be interested. I am going away for a few days at Easter and have been trying to book some cheaper AP tickets to and from Mansfield/Nottingham to Croydon. I'm travelling down on Easter Sunday and so I knew from past years that it could...

An older relative of mine has booked AP tickets from Newark to Edinburgh on the East Coast website. Usually when booking tickets like this she has them delivered to her address by 1st Class post but on this occasion accidently clicked on the box to collect them from Newark Northgate Station on...

I heard on BBC Radio Nottingham this morning that East Midlands Trains are to introduce penalty fares from today 7th December. I was quite surprised as this was the first I had heard about this. I just thought typical Stagecoach! There doesn't seem to have been much publicity about this and I...

Could anyone give me any information on how much I would be charged for a Day Return from Ulverstone to Carlisle if I was to pay on the day at Ulverstone station? The reason I ask is that when looking at websites such as Southern and NXEC it gives an amazingly cheap fare of only £15.50 that is...

In the latest edition of Rail Magazine there is an article concerning tight connections with some journeys involving AP tickets and the lack of facilities availble to request journeys with a longer wait for connections. I believe that this was possible a number of years ago on the old Qjump...

For the 6th year running (so it must be good) I am staying at friends near Blackpool and will be making full use of a 7 day North West Rover. Even after price rises at £70 for the large area covered it's still great value. For an extra £30 I also usually also get a 7 day Stagecoach North West...

Yesterday (Sat 18th July), I was travelling from Nottingham to Norwich and just south of Grantham I am sure that we passed a XC 170 on the ECML which was travelling north. This was at approx 8.30 am. I thought I had immagined this but on the return journey the EMT 158 that I was travelling on...