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You can include a specified Metrolink zone on a rail ticket, if that counts. I used to have a season ticket from Stalybridge to Metrolink Zone 4 when I used to work at Salford Quays.

Horwich Parkway just misses the cut, having opened in July 1999

I bought one from Macclesfield-Stockport about 3 months ago. Rather annoyingly the departure board inside the ticket office doesn't indicate the operator of the services, so you have to seek out the timetable or make a leap of faith with your purchase.

I've walked it end to end, very pleasant route that took me about 4 hours and with the added advantage of a rail station at either end.

Is that the difference between what I had paid and what I should have paid, still getting to grips with the terminology as a relative newcomer here? He claimed that the ticket office who sold him the ticket told him he could use his ticket with a break, the conductor was very disbelieving -...

The service had a conductor and RPI in tandem, so that advice has probably saved me the price of a second ticket. Thanks. Chap on board was trying to use a Croydon-Edinburgh day single that had been stamped to Manchester on 17/24. Oops.

Thanks for that KWVR45, I'll get my ticket from Bolton in that case I prefer to play it by the rules.

I'm coming from Stalybridge, there's a service at 11.44 which arrives in Piccadilly about 9 minutes before at the same platform 14, which makes for a nice tidy connection.

I'd not even considered Blackrod, so few services call there but the principle would be the same as me using Chroley.

That's what I was wondering Yorkie, I've seen a similar question before but was relating to a rail season ticket rather than this type of pass. I normally try to get a stopping service when trying this but this particular service suits my travel plans for tomorrow which is Manchester...

I will be travelling to Chorley tomorrow 24/12 on the 12:16 service from Manchester Piccadilly to Chorley. I have a County Card which covers me for rail travel in Greater Manchester. Should I buy a ticket from Bolton to Chorley, which the service calls at, or Horwich Parkway which it...

It would make more sense if it read 1-6

Looks like this one has been answered previously - http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?p=301380

I'm afraid I don't agree with that, the guard's job is to come down the train and check and sell tickets. If he can't be bothered to that, a ticket can be bought at the other end of the journey. If that his not possible, the passenger has done nothing wrong, in my opinion.

TPE certainly do, there were about 4 or 5 convictions recently in my local paper. The compensation amount (the fare that they did not pay) was also listed and in most cases was a cheap £1.20 evening fare. Was it really worth it?

TPE were running about 15-20 minutes late through Stalybridge early morning which isn't too bad - they seemed to pick up the delay between York and Leeds.

I got the first TPE of the day, calling at Stalybridge on New Years Day after an all nighter and promptly nodded off and awoke in Huddersfield. Thankfully, as it was well below freezing, there was only a short wait for one back in the other direction and the guard was kind enough to accept my...

The former Marple - Macclesfield line has now been converted into a footpath and bridleway, which would be the main attraction plus its fairly close to the Macclesfield canal.

Middlewood, on the Manchester Picadilly-Buxton line. Although plenty of trains stop there, I seldom see anyone get on or off there, it is literally in the middle of a wood and with at least a mile walk by foot to the nearest road.