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Over the past few decades I have been in the habit of buying a second hand car for about £4000 and running it to scrap, usually about 8 years. I have spent about £1000 a year on maintenance and £500 a year on fuel. That works out at about £2000 per year, Could I run an EV on that budget?

Could someone advice me how long it takes to get between Rail and Bus in Crewe. IO need to visit some of the villages south of Crewe using the 39 Crewe Nantwich bus

Where do I buy one of these tickets? I will be starting from an unmanned station and AFAIK they are not available from TVMs

On Tuesday I returned from Heaton Chapel to Whaley Bridge. I caught the 2215 from Heaton Chapel arriving in Stockport at 2223 intending to catch the 2233 Buxton train. But that train was cancelled so I had to wait for the 2319 which got to Whaley at 2348, 49 minutes later than planned. Northern...

How does one find out whether a particular train yesterday was on time or how late its was, please?

Tonight I shal be travelling from Whaley Bridge to Heaton Chapel to compete in a backgammon tournament. I shall but an off peak return ticket. I would hope to return on the last southbound train at 2215. But if I am delayed there is the option of getting the 2238 train to Manchester Piccadilly...

Yesterday i bought an advanced ticket for a journey from Whaley Bridge to Adlington(C) on the Northern Rail app for £6.50. Today my phone ran out of power so I went to the ticket office. The clerk said that he couldn't sell me an advance, only an anytime at a cost £13.30. He reduced this to...

On Tuesday I had occasion to travel from Whaley Bridge to Stockport. Because my 'phone with its Northern app was not to hand I checked times on the National Rail web site. As well as giving me times that told me that the cheapest travel was to buy two singles at £2.20; £4.40. When my phone...

I don't know if it is my advancing years, the bus company I mainly use (High Peak) or the design of the particular buses; but drivers seem to be rougher than they used to be and pay little attention to the comfort of their passengers. This is most evident in braking. At bus stops, rather than...

I cannot book a ticket on the Buxton Stockport line on October 1st. Is There industrial action on that date? Nation Rail Enquiries say "Oops Something went wrong". Do you think that a ticket inspector would accept that excuse when I cannot show him a ticket?

mods note - split from here. In the past I have moved into first class when second class was crowded and paid the difference to the guard. Is that now illegal?

Sorry if this has been done to death. I bought a ticket to go into Manchester but when I arrived at the station the train was posted half an hour lat which meant that I would have missed my appointment. So I went home. Can I get my fare back? It was a Northern e-ticket

There was a queue of impatient people at the ticket office as some one was planning a complex journey in the five minutes before the train arrived. The clerk reassured as that we could buy a ticket on the train. Which I did. But would a revenue protection officer accept that as an excuse for...

I have to travel to hospital appointments on the two Jubilee Bank Holidays this week and can find no information about what services run un these or other Bank Holidays. Anybody able to enlighten me?

Moderator note: moved from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/manchester-euston-%C2%A3320-ret.182476/page-3 Air travel without discomfort? I wish!

, when the ticket office is open, you are required to wait before you can claim that you were unable to to buy a ticket prior to the start of your journey? Or are you expected to wait for as long as it takes to clear the queue even if that means missing two trains? And, as a supplementary...

If I get a P2P ticket at an unmanned station and travel to another unmanned station on a train with no guard (not uncommon on the Buxton line at night) how am I supposed to honour the promise? Is there a mechanism for paying on line or should I send a cheque to head office?

.. states No person shall open a barrier or any other gate on the railway except where there is a notice indicating that it may be used by him or with permission from an authorised person. At my local station there are two ways of getting to platform 2. Going through the ticket office onto...

What is the legal position if you buy a mobile ticket and your 'phone fails or, more likely, runs out of ambaric fluid? Would you be in breach of bylaw 17.2?

I have just got the NR app and have purchased an m-ticket. I have to activate the ticket before boarding the train. What is the point of that? Do I get my money back if I don't activate it?