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  1. ivorytoast28

    Anytime return, can anyone confirm I am right in my understanding?

    Sorry, I'm sure this is common. But having read the advice on this website I would be perfectly valid to do the following: -Buy Reading - Penzance off peak return - Travel Reading to Penzance, stay a while - Travel penzance to say St Austell stay 3 days - Travel St Austell to Exeter , stay 3...
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    Two tickets where first one gets delayed but is an Anytime single and the second one is an advance ticket.

    Hello, I'm sure this is a fairly common question so I apologise but as someone living within 30 miles of london I've always had this problem. It is always significantly cheaper to but London to -> Anywhere tickets separately from Guildford-London. But I've never trusted SWR. I also...
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    [Trivia] Which direct route between any two stations has the most TOC's operating on it?

    Does anywhere have more than the 6 that operate between Stockport and Manchester Piccadilly?
  4. ivorytoast28

    Cheapest way to use French trains

    Hi, I am currently planning a trip to the south of France and was hoping to use the trains to get around a fair bit. Ideally, I was hoping to find a rail pass that would give me some flexibility to explore (something similar to Deutsche bahn's 25EUR regional day passes) but using the SNCF...
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    Could service patterns be improved at Earlestown, Lea Green and Newton-le-Willows?

    Why do TPE Manchester-Liverpool trains call at Lea Green and Newton-le-Willows? Neither are really in St Helens and if they want to have a stop between Manchester and Liverpool why not choose Earlestown. It is an interchange station and sees more passengers than either NLW or LEG and looks to...
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    How do TOC's get money from train tickets?

    So I've often wondered how they actually allocate the ticket money and get it right... Obviously for advance tickets or anytime tickets with a specified operator it is pretty straightforward but what about when multiple operators operate on the same route. For example: An anytime return from...

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