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Looking for a bit of advice please. We hold advance tickets between Nottingham and Manchester for next Friday August 6th. Depart Nottingham 19.37, arrive Manchester Piccadilly 21.35. These tickets were purchased through Red Spotted Hanky on May 15th. Checking the schedule, I cannot see this...

Looking for Manchester to St Ives departing 8th July, returning on 16th. Will be two adults with a Two Together Railcard. There doesn’t seem to be any fares available with the XC, which appears to be because the timetable is unconfirmed? Does anyone know when or indeed if it is likely that...

My daughter is currently en-route between Portsmouth to Manchester using the Outward portion of an Off-Peak return (route via London), arriving into Waterloo shortly. She has a seat reserved on the 1420 out of Euston, but clearly she could use a train before then if possible. Two questions:-...

Can anyone give an indication when GWR will likely release tickets for June? They have been selling tickets up to the timetable change in mid-May since at least November, but they haven’t gone into June with sales yet. I realise that this is likely due to having the new timetable not yet...

Posting on behalf of a colleague. He is due to travel on Eurostar this Friday evening from St Pancras to Bourg-Saint-Maurice, however due to industrial action in France, his departure has been brought forward by some seven hours. He was connecting into this train with a separate [non-CIV]...

Looking to travel from Manchester to Edinburgh on Saturday January 11th. Piccadilly dep 10.47 arriving Edinburgh 14.17 changing at Preston. Advance tickets with a Two Together Railcard. Avanti will sell me these tickets for £33.00 but TPE want £34.30 for the identical ticket. I’m not...

Looking for a bit of advice here please. Yesterday I was intending to take the 2331 (2A99) Liverpool Lime St to Manchester Victoria. Two reasons why I’d selected this service, firstly it gave a good onwards tram connection to my final destination and secondly it offered the insurance of having...

Just a theoretical scenario this and posting simply out of interest. My daughter travelled today from Manchester Piccadilly to Bristol Temple Meads. Matters were complicated by two issues, firstly no through trains on this route at the moment and secondly the Northern DOO strike. She...

On Tuesday I travelled on the 19.24 XC service from Liskeard towards Penzance, which departed 8 early at 19.16. Now I was travelling on an Off-Peak Day Return so it didn't affect me , but I got thinking, what would the situation be if forced to attempt travel on the next GWR service on an...

My daughter travelled last evening between Manchester Piccadilly and Bristol Temple Meads. She was supposed to be using a through train 1V67 (at 18.05) with a ticket split at Stoke-on-Trent. 1V67 was cancelled between Piccadilly and New St, so she was forced to use 1O30 (at 18.27) to...

Will be travelling from Gatwick to Manchester on Tuesday 27th September. Lots of "Advance" options for 3 adults (with Railcards) at £50.55 from 10.00 am onwards. But ideally we would wish to get an afternoon train from Euston at about 3pm, (having left Gatwick at 10.00 am). I presume this...

My daughter travelled yesterday from York to Oxford using the return portion of an off-peak return, and because of engineering the usual direct Cross-Country service was not available. She travelled instead via Kings Cross and Paddington, with a reservation on the 21.42 service from...

Just made a reservation for Manchester Piccadilly to Edinburgh on Friday 16th January (1S75) and obtained seat reservations for Coach A, seats 43, 44 and 48. Great, but Realtime Trains has this pathed as a 185, but TPE's seating plan only has the aforementioned seats in a 350! I know the...

Looking to book a straightforward ticket for my daughter to travel from Piccadilly to Euston on Friday 27th June. She will be using a 16-25 Railcard. The issue I have is that all the booking sites (including Virgin's own) seem to be willing to sell an "Off Peak Return" for the 0700 from...

Been asked to look for a single from Falmouth to Manchester on 14th December. 16-25 Railcard is available. Not expecting great savings to be made, as this is Cross Country territory. Splitting at Bristol shaves a bit off, but are there any creative thinkers out there who can suggest...

Looking for a bit of help please. Our F&FRC expires on September 1st, but attempting to renew it online now, will only offer an expiry date of August 9th 2013 (ie only 49 weeks hence). This seems a bit of con to me, as surely it should be possible to date the card until September 1st 2013...

I am looking for some advice please. My daughter (who is 15 and a half but looks a little younger) travelled, along with two teenage friends of the same age, to Blackpool North from Manchester Piccadilly this morning on the 0815 service. They return this evening Having researched this...

Just made a booking for the 10.16 from Manchester Piccadilly to Edinburgh on 21st October. Seat reservation is for Coach "F". I understood that the TPE Class 185's were all three car (Coaches "A" "B" and "C")? Does anyone know if this is a double six car working? Also returning on the 18.52...

Our Family Railcard shortly needs renewing. By coincidence, I have recently received by way of compensation from East Coast, some Rail Travel Vouchers. Does anybody know if these vouchers can be used to renew the Railcard? Thanks in advance for any replies.