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Yes - Stagecoach charge £1 for a day ticket, Go North West charge 50p for a single, and I don't know the prices for any others, or indeed if they charge at all
I've got a couple of pointers around Manchester
1) the 135 is the main route between Bury and Manchester, not the 97/98
2) You may want to add a dot for New Mills. This would be a neat little focus point for the 199 and 61, and you could add 60 from Macclesfield.
2a) The map currently makes it...
In that particular area, I'd suggest Langbank - you get a couple of fast trains each hour, a couple of stoppers, and if your eyesight is good, you can see trains on the north side of the Clyde.
Other stations that are decent are Carluke, Lochwinnoch (although basically all you get there are...
Lochwinnoch gets pretty similar passenger numbers to Milliken Park, Dalry, Barassie, Prestwick Airport, and Ardrossan South Beach - are you suggesting that they all also go to 1tph (and I dread to think what level of service Newton-on-Ayr would justify)?
The only trains with catering between Edinburgh and Inverness at the moment are the Highland Chieftain (16:38 from Haymarket) (but I don't know what it offers for that part of the journey) and the 08:37 Edinburgh - Inverness (on Wednesdays and Fridays only) (and that's tea and biscuits as far as...
Off peak day tickets, and therefore the rover, are valid to board the sleeper at Taunton, since off-peak restrictions don't apply to this ticket before 4:30.
I'm curious - would you show lenience if it was a ticket office that had issued a ticket with a 16-25 rather than a 26-30 discount before 10:00 in August? (I've very strongly drilled into my partner to always show his railcard at the ticket office, without really going into the details of when...
I've had dog food substituted for bird seed before - not something I was particularly thrilled to discover. I'm sure that my dog would have eaten it given the chance though.
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