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A recent occurrence not far from me. Could have turned out very differently.

Hi My daughter is currently travelling on the 1800 GNER service Kings Cross to Edinburgh. She is going to Newcastle. She presented herself at KGX to catch the 1818 service to Newcastle. She holds an advance purchase single, booked train only for the 1818. The medium she holds this is as an...

On 8 October my daughter bought a ticket to travel on 10 November from Southport to London Euston. She now has the ticket with the itinerary Dep. Southport 8.24am Arrive Wigan Wallgate 8.55am Dep. Wigan North Western 9.10am Arrive London Euston 11.11am The ticket is an advance purchase single...

Last Thursday I travelled from Rome to Lausanne on 9am departure from Rome due Milan 11.59 to connect with 12.23 from Milan to Lausanne. Train from Rome was over 20 minutes late with the result that all I saw of the 12.23 was its tail lights disappearing into the distance. Next available...

On a Facebook group which I monitor, a user asked whether they were allowed to use a Greater Anglia issued season ticket from Billericay to Liverpool Street on TfL services between Shenfield and Liverpool Street. They received a response from someone who has otherwise seemed knowledgeable about...

My daughter has first class "room" reserved on Caledonian Sleeper from Motherwell. She would like to join the train which starts at Glasgow, and occupy her berth, rather than hang around at Motherwell. What would be the appropriate action to take, ticket to purchase, etc to enable this to happen?

I am trying to work out my "best" option from Billericay to Southport, via Euston obviously. There seem to be a choice of three. London -> Crewe -> Liverpool South Parkway -> Southport London -> Manchester Piccadilly -> Southport London -> Wigan NW -> Wigan Wallgate -> Southport The first two...

Hello I remember a while ago there was a thread on how someone got a huge number of coupons for one round trip, but it later transpired that the round trip had been booked using multiple split ticketing. I have just been surprised by the number of coupons issued for a simple round trip...

Hello To save time and hassle at booking office on a Monday morning, I bought tickets for my wife to travel Billericay to London on Monday 30/10. I bought them on the Greater Anglia web site and already collected them. Travel to London at 7.40am, returning in the afternoon. As she has a Senior...

Just curious. I went up the ticket office at Liverpool Central, and asked for 2 day returns to Southport, both with Senior railcard, and my wife and I showed our railcards. Tickets issued at expected price, but instead of having SNR as expected, they had 2GETH printed on them. Journey...

My daughter and her partner are currently on their way to Manchester via Doncaster having turned up at Euston to catch the 10.00 departure to Manchester. They were advised by staff at Euston to go to Kings Cross and travel via Doncaster (10.48 Grand Central Trains, then Trans Pennine...

I have bought an Off-peak return Billericay to London Terminals to use with some Virgin West Coast Sale tickets Euston to Liverpool. (Not possible to get sale tickets originating from Billericay) My basic plan was to travel to Liverpool Street, then use Oyster to Euston. But now I have...

I had an enjoyable excursion yesterday using a super off-peak zones 1-6 travel card from Billericay. I had always wanted to travel the entire orbital Overground, so departed at 11.57, travelled to Stratford then to Clapham Junction via Willesden Junction, then to Canonbury via Whitechapel, back...

Top marks for GA's marketing team. I received e-mail as follows: Except I live on the on the Southend line so my situation is as follows:

I considered this marvellous offer from GA for a moment, and looked into it a bit more. The gig by Nadine Shah is at 10pm on Saturday night, so obviously the one night's bed and breakfast will be quite short. Then I considered the 1st class return journey on 21 May I decided not to enter the...

An acquaintance has suggested I join in him in an excursion on the C2C.. He will travel on their Senior 65+ Rover ticket giving all day travel for £9. Unfortunately I do not qualify for this ticket, but do hold a Senior railcard. Journey intention would be Basildon to Fenchurch Street...

Hello I have head a rumour that the new class 345 Crossrail trains will be doing some "mileage accumulation" trips along the line to Southend Victoria. Does anyone know anything about this? If so when might this happen, and would they be operating in service or just as empty stock?

Hello My sister has an advance single ticket Billericay to Cheltenham Spa, for the specific train departing Paddington on 15 May at 19.15. It is valid on necessary connecting services, including London Underground It is her plan to depart Billericay 09.57, spend the day in the vicinity of...

It is more than a year now since the pedestrian level crossing near Billericay station was replaced by a footbridge, but the 30mph speed restriction is still in force, and religiously complied with by drivers slowing down on approach, and not seeding up on departure to/from the station. How...