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Afternoon all. I intend to break my journey on the return leg from Scotland to the South and it is likely to be in the Lake District. I'm planning to alight at Oxenholme and then catch a local service to Windermere. Obviously I shall have to purchase a separate ticket for the Oxenholme to...

Crimdon is a little coastal gem ! I have family in the North East they took me there as an alternative to Saltburn. A lovely coastal walk and well worth the visit !

I may be catching the above weekday service in the coming days and was wondering if it is likely to be heavily loaded on departure from Euston ? There was much discussion when the service was introduced and I was wondering what peoples' opinions on a Euston non-stop to Preston and then...

As I said in a previous post altercations with staff are becoming more and more frequent. There seems to be an imbalance of knowledge in favour of the customer and this is highlighting the inadequacies of ticketing staff. The public accessibility to the Routeing Guide has definitely given "power...

Arrrrgggghhhhh !!!! This sort of thing is becoming far too frequent. Who trains these so called "experts" ? I assume that Clapham Junction is not regarded as "London" and you are allowed to pass through there on a "not-London" ticket not only for this particular journey but all others ?

Dep. Brighton 0920 Arr. Edinburgh Waverley 1916. Oddly enough the service called at Bolton ! http://www.1s76.com/1S76%201996.htm

They should definitely bring back "1S76" Brighton - Edinburgh via Kensington Olympia and the Thames Valley, even if it is only for the summer timetable. For those familiar with the famous North London principality Brighton was famously dubbed by London youth as "Camden by the Sea" and I know...

That is good news. The times I've used West Ruislip station I cannot recall the ticket office ever being open ! Do they only open at morning / afternoon peaks ?

The trainline site allows you to purchase a Railcard Discounted Travelcard from West Ruislip for £5.00. Could one buy this discounted ticket from the Fast Ticket machines that are present at the Chiltern Trains entrance of the station ( via car park) or would you have to go to the ticket office...

I've just stumbled across one of those stupid fare anomalies. You can buy a London Terminals - Wilmslow OPR and travel on the 6am train out of Marylebone : £63.90 However, at that time of the morning you are only permitted to buy an Anytime Return from High Wycombe - Wilmslow. You are...

Avantix shows that a London Terminals - Wilmslow "Any Permitted Route" Off Peak Return ticket has a 9I Restriction which allows departures from London Marylebone "By any train." Would this allow me to catch the first weekeday train out of Marylebone to Banbury and board a peak service XC train...

Many years back, it was 1996, I remember catching the Brighton - Edinburgh ( via Reading) XC service from Kensington Olympia. The journey to Edinburgh must have taken close to 8.5 hours and was hauled by a Class 47 for a lot of the distance. I think that we may have gone through Crewe ( or maybe...

As I'm going to be doing some cross-pennine line bashing in a few weeks I was wondering if there are still any loco-hauled or HST paths from the NW ( Liverpool, Preston, Manchester ) across Yorkshire and onwards to York / Newcastle. Are they all Northern / TPE DMUs ? Zod

Woooaaaaa !!! :lol: Are these routes really valid ?! Newcastle > Manchester > Bristol > Southampton > Oxford would be a classic if permitted :D That would take the best part of a day !

I was thining about the following path : Oxford (XC) -> Manchester Piccadilly Manchester Piccadilly (TP) -> Huddersfield Huddersfield (NT) -> Bradford Interchange -> Leeds Leeds (XC) -> Newcastle OR Leeds (NT | TP) -> York (TP |XC| NXEC) -> Newcastle Would be nice to do...

Good afternoon all ! I have to go to a conference at Newcastle University and thought it would be a good opportunity to travel on some lines which I rarely frequent. I've checked the routeing guide and it suggests the following map routes as one of my possible route combos from OXF-NEW : MW...

Thanks a lot John. I'm afraid I was under the false impression that grippers relied more heavily on the "reasonable route" as opposed to "NRG permitted route" criteria when concluding if your journey route was valid or not. Zod

Thanks Yorkie ! I don't think I've made myself very clear. When I meant "something similar to doubling back" I did not mean "doubling back" in the true and literal sense. It seems to me that Manchester - Lancaster via Crewe actually entails going further away from your destination point before...

Hi John, Something which perplexes me is that map GM allows you to go to Crewe and then catch a train to Lancaster Groups from there. Surely this could constitute something similar to "doubling back" ? It seems to me that you are allowed to travel "further away" from Lancaster Group by...

Hello, I often come across the term "enterprise train" when referring to freight train diagrams e.g "66006 heads south through Princes Risborough with the diverted 6X66, 02:01 Warrington to Wembley enterprise train with 60048 DIT." What does the term "enterprise train" refer to / stand for ...