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Harton Coaches in Barry South Wales recently introduced a weekend only open top bus service which initially ran between Barry town centre and Barry Island but has now been amended to a more interesting route between Penarth and Barry Island via Comeston and Sully. The return fare of £2.40 is an...

I've been trying for the last week to book some journeys to Kent on Friday 5 August but I cannot get advance fares on any routes which include travel on Southeastern. There are also no Southeastern only advances on that day. Only that day is affected. No problems on the previous or following...

Fares are often loaded on to the Megabus booking system one day at a time but yesterday they added more than three months worth of UK-only bus journeys in one go which AFAIK has never been done before. It means there is currently at least one £1 ticket available on almost every service from...

I've just returned from my local station where my attempt to purchase three advance tickets revealed a somewhat bizarre anomaly. I usually book my advance journeys on line but having a £35 Rail Travel Voucher from Virgin West Coast I went to the station instead, choosing a quiet time of day...

Simple question I hope. I have an advance ticket from Kent to Birmingham tomorrow with a booked train from Euston but I need to call at Kings Cross. Will the ticket barriers on the underground allow me to exit at Kings Cross St Pancras ? Or will my ticket have been programmed only to...

I think it's too late to ask Virgin these questions so I hope somebody on this forum can help. I have first class advances (purchased in the Virgin West Coast sale) Euston to Glasgow 16.30 on Mon 18 Jan, Glasgow to Euston 07.37 Wed 20 Jan. I booked through the Virgin website well before the...

A couple of months ago at about 9.40 am on a weekday morning I bought a discounted ticket from a station in Kent using my Gold Card. It would not operate the ticket barrier. They never do before 10 am. I went to the manned point - two staff standing there - and said something like "These...

We will be travelling towards Croydon from Beckenham on Thursday and want to park the car on a road within a ten minute walk of a tramlink station where there is no charge or restriction between midday and 6pm. I think this is achievable as a lot of residential areas in SE London have...

Yesterday evening I had cause to use a station help point for the first time and it was not a positive experience. This was at Charlton at just before midnight. Station unstaffed. There had been a fatality at Abbey Wood two hours earlier and no trains through to Dartford or beyond since...

National Express offer cheap advance fares from £5 between Canterbury and London. Some of the services call at Gillingham Hempstead Valley which is just up the road from me but journeys from there are not included in the lowest fares finder Does anybody know if starting short is permitted ? I...

I have recently noticed that the lowest advance fares quoted on National Rail Enquiries (NRE) for Virgin Trains West Cost services can often be bettered by using this tool on their website. Examples are £7.50 fares between Birmingham and Euston instead of £10, and £20 between Glasgow Central...

I'm travelling later today from Medway to London Charing Cross, which is currently closed every weekend. Weekdays this would be a direct journey. I buy an off peak day return. NRE tell me to travel to Cannon Street and then "transfer" to Charing Cross which I assume means by tube. Anyone...

These seem to have shot up in price on the London Paddington to Cardiff route to a level where some cost more than buy on the day tickets. The cheapest weekday advance fare I can currently find is £48, previously £18.50, that's looking at dates in February, March and early April from 10.15am...

Has any forum member used one of these passes ? They appear to be excellent value at £79 for seven days / £219 for 28 days unlimited travel on National Express coaches. One return journey, eg from Newcastle to Plymouth, can cost more than £79 I've never seen advertising for them but it's...

As a follow on from the reasonably priced long distance bus journeys thread I wonder how far it's possible to get across the UK from different towns by local buses only. A one way one day journey starting in your home town of say 150 miles or more. As a starter I recently did Caerphilly to...

I had hoped to book a £13.30 advance on either the 07.42 or (preferably) the 11.40 from Fort Willliam to Glasgow Queen Street on Friday 29 August. I' m certain I looked early on the day the fares were loaded but only £28.20 anytime singles were available. The allocation of advances must have...

Back in mid March we travelled to Leeds on a service which departed Kings Cross on time but was almost 40 minutes late at Doncaster. We were using flat fare EC first class tickets (£20) The train manager was excellent throughout with regular announcements, explanations and apologies. Before...

I enjoy travelling by bus as well as train and regularly plan an itinerary that starts and finishes at the same place with little or no duplication of route. I don't qualify for free travel but use Explorer/Rover tickets for maximum flexibility/minimum cost. This week in South Wales I...

We booked our usual two nights away in Cornwall mid May specifically to spend another day using the 300 - my personal favourite open top tour However it does not appear to be running yet and is not even included in the service changes from 25 May. In previous years it started in late March...

I've recently bought an Oyster Smartcard and will be using it for the first time on Sunday to travel from New Beckenham or Beckenham Hill to Charing Cross - which is closed all day. National Rail Enquiries Journey Planner offers me routes to Blackfriars and Cannon Street then by underground to...