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I've been looking at a journey between Doncaster and Stamford on various dates in the future yet even though Advance fares exist on this flow I can't find a single train that has any availability. On the VTEC journey planner, the fare is shown but is always greyed out and hovering the mouse over...

Question as per title really. I'm trying to plan a couple of journeys on the £10 Northern Rail day ranger next week between Leeds and the Cumbrian Coast but just about every journey is partly on a TPE service, so I wondered if there's a site where I can select "Northern Rail only" trains?

Just a quick query which it appears impossible to find out via Northern Rail or Travel South Yorkshire. Trains between Sheffield and Barnsley are replaced by buses all this weekend (11-12 July), unfortunately the timetables don't say where in Sheffield the buses leave from. Previously I'm...

I spent a very pleasant day yesterday walking The Middlewood Way, the trackbed of the old Macclesfield, Bollington and Marple Railway, which closed in 1970. While I was there I took the opportunity to ride the few hundred yards of track from Rose Hill Marple to Marple Wharf Junction, which set...

I know there's several old threads on the East Midlands Rover ticket but as they're all closed I'm having to start a new one. Basically I've booked a couple of days off at the end of the month with the intention of using a flexi rover ticket, so I can have days out Saturday - Tuesday -...

I dare say this is an old chestnut that's been debated on here many times but the only similar thread I've found is 3 years old and closed. I have an advance purchase ticket from Portsmouth to Sheffield next month. The itinerary is Portsmouth to Winchester on a non-reservable train...

Whilst waiting at Stockport for my train home to Sheffield on Saturday, I was bewildered to see a 19.41 service to Sinfin North listed on the information screens. A quick google search reveals that apparently some charter services are shown with a fake destination to deter regular passengers...

I’ve recently started a new job in York and have a Sheffield - York season ticket, and wondered if anyone who can get their head around the National Routeing Guide can tell me if a couple of unusual routes are permitted. 1. Sheffield – Penistone – Huddersfield (change) Huddersfield – York 2...

Morning all. I'm back on the interview trail this week with an interview for a temporary Resource Planner role with Northern in York. This is the ad...

I've been planning a York Whitby day trip for later in the summer and the excellent brfares site has found me a fare of £13.30, routed "Not via Darlington". http://www.brfares.com/#faredetail?orig=YRK&dest=WTB&rlc=%20%20%20&rte=99&ldn=0&tkt=CDR Unfortunately whatever booking site I use...

Hi, another quick routeing/validity query. I'm making a journey from Barnsley to Doncaster tomorrow, but want to know if a through ticket permits me to change at Sheffield rather than Meadowhall. On the one hand, the shortest route is to change at Meadowhall and therefore to go into...

I have a job interview this week with a...er...certain well known rail infrastructure company this week doing a job that involves planning their test trains, and one of the things they expect me to know something about is "train-borne data collection techniques". Whilst I'm aware of the various...

I've got an interview for this post next week in Manchester and just wondered if anyone has any insider knowledge about what to expect? http://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/customer-information-assistant-first-transpennine-express/22000483 Specifically, are First's interviews for office based jobs...

Having been shoved through the ticket gates at my destination station twice a day, my annual season ticket has faded to the point it's virtually unreadable so I went to the booking office yesterday to get a replacement. When I asked the guy on the counter, he asked if it had been issued by his...

I'm not sure whether this belongs in fares or jobs so will leave the mods to decide. I know that UK-wide priv travel is only open to safeguarded staff who joined BR pre privatisation, but what do new entrants to TOCs get these days? I presume that you would just get free travel on your own...

I've got prebooked tickets from Doncaster to London tomorrow on the £10 flat fare deal, but looking at the weather forecast, there's a significant possibility of disruption on my return journey late saturday evening due to heavy snow. I expect my outward journey should be fine, but I'm a bit...

I live in the Barnsley area and I'm considering applying for a job vacancy I've seen in York and weighing up the commuting options. If I just got a Barnsley-York season ticket I'm guessing it would only be valid to go via Leeds, so I reckon it would make more sense to get a Sheffield-York...

Just a quickie here. Planning to get a Coasts and Peaks Rover this weekend and was heading down to Shrewsbury, but have since discovered the Crewe-Shrewsbury line is shut and trains are being diverted via Stafford and Wolverhampton. Unfortunately the section between Stafford and Telford via...

I'm off on a North West Rover next week and am planning to take a trip to Keswick on one of the days. On the National Rail website, Keswick is listed as a destination and has a three letter code (KWK), which seems to imply that the bus link from Penrith is rail-sponsored...

Following the recent threads on here about the excessive number of announcements, those of us who have to suffer travel from Northern Rail stations now have a new peril to deal with. Did you know that train doors may close early - sometimes up to a minute before departure? Well if not...