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Aha, that's the one. That is a no to Stockport - Sheffield - Edale then. I shall just have to make sure I make the stopper from Piccadilly then or its a long wait and a bit of a spoiled day :p

I assume there is any number of these, but there's a few I've personally noticed that probably wouldn't agree too much with the routing guide and all that jazz. First off, a fairly low level one: Birmingham to Hamstead during the evening (when there is only one stopper per hour), gives the...

I've also noticed this, I put it down (probably wrongly) to the reflective coating on the windows not letting anything in :lol: . I get terrible (even worse than normal) signal on my phone as well when I'm on Voyagers

After going up that way again today, it would appear that all the Walsall signals (with the exception of the one on the platform at Hamstead) have got a replacement fairly near to them. Most of them are within a few yards of the existing one, but the first one after Tame Bridge in the New St...

When I went to Reading Festival a few years back, XC had put a few extra trains on back to Birmingham. XC also put on a 'football special' from Nottingham back to Wolverhampton (and Birmingham) a few seasons back. We did however sit at Derby for about 45 minutes, during which the 'normal'...

Blimey, it sounds like a bus :lol: Also, what's that strange noise around 1:27

I do indeed have a railcard, so the daytripper + extension would'nt be any use to me. It still doesn't explain why all the other stations in the Network West Midlands area do have an off-peak return though. Selly Oak, as an example, the SDR/SDS price is the same as from Hamstead, but they...

Hi guys, I recently made a trip from Hamstead to Stratford on Avon, and was puzzled at the lack of an off-peak day return, with the only ticket available an anytime return. I was even more perplexed when I checked the ticket machines at Moor Street to see an off-peak fare was available from...

Are there a few new signals going in at the moment? I went the slow way up to Stoke last week, and whilst changing at Tame Bridge it seemed there was a new signal (still covered up,etc) not far beyond the end of the Birmingham-bound platform and something similar looking around Bescot. Has...

I've been to Norfolk a couple of times recently in order to do some fieldwork for my dissertation. If I bought a walk up fare, it would be slightly cheaper (only by a few pounds) for a Not London ticket, but both of those were more than £55 so I did it with advances. If I was to go with XC...

All this about similarly named places reminds me - A month or two ago, when buying a ticket from Selly Oak, I was greeted with a blank look from the chap in the ticket office when I asked for a single to Hamstead (another LM station, in the same city and about a 30 minute journey away). 'Is...

May have been a problem between Wolves and Birmingham somewhere meaning it either went via Bescot and Aston or Soho to Perry Barr and Aston resulting in it arriving from the south at New Street.

I think that may have only been during the Winter timetable, it seems to be back to the 'usual' levels of one stopping and one not at Stafford since May. Unless maybe I just happen to catch the 'occasional' train which skips Stafford. Agree with the other poster about southbounds being on...

Of the two New St - Picc trains an hour, the one which stops at Stafford takes 10 minutes longer to get to Stoke-on-Trent. There does seem a silly amount of padding on that journey, it usually involves sitting at Stafford for a good 4 or 5 minutes and then similar at Stoke. Even it gets sent...

A friend in a bit of a rush, managed to somehow get on the late running VT to Euston (next stop: Euston!) at Stoke instead of the XC back to Birmingham. He said the guard was very sympathetic and he only ended up paying for a ticket back from Euston to New Street which was only £10 or so on LM...

I saw something on the LM Twitter a few days back saying they'd have (up to) 3 an hour from New St to Euston, rather than the current 1. I assume it'd be extensions of the current Northampton terminators. Seeing as there is a Northampton to Euston shortly after the Birmingham to Northampton...

There seem to be a few odd fares around here. I recently discovered that with the exception of Sutton Coldfield, there are no off-peak returns to Stratford on Avon from any X-City North or Walsall line stations, but for the rest of the West Midlands area that ticket is available, meaning my...

I thought New St, Moor St and Snow Hill were the only 'Birmingham' stations? Or is the 'Birmingham Group' something totally different? :-x For the record, I was sold the 'Not Birmingham' fare after being asked if I was changing at Aston. The only case I could see the two different fares...

You say useless - its 55 pence cheaper (with a railcard, at least) :p

Hi all, Not really a question as such, just something odd I've spotted - no doubt one of the many strange quirks of the ticketing system... Just checked on Avantix Traveller to see how much it will be to get from Hamstead to Sutton Coldfield tomorrow and it comes up with two fares - an...