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I have just been on national rail site to check the fare of off peak return Whitehaven (WTH) to Northampton (NMP) as I have some rail vouchers I need to use and as there are no decently priced 1st class advances available (well not in my opinion anyway) then I don't need the web only half the...

I had noticed that when travelling Whitehaven - Northampton via Barrow in Furness (then changing at Lancaster and Rugby) that as well as the previous reservation for Virgin and London Midland that I also had, like LM, a pseudo-reservation for the BIF to Lancaster leg. I had put this down to...

I shall be travelling from Whitehaven to Northampton on Fri 22/1 returning Mon 25/1. My usual route would be 13:10 Whitehaven to Carlisle (arrive 14:28) 15:10 Carlisle to Birmingham International (arrive 18:19) 18:30 Birmingham International to Northampton (arrive 19:21) Of course the...

On Sunday July 5th I set out to travel from Northampton to Whitehaven, my intended journey was the 10:08 Euston service, change at Milton Keynes for the 10:33 Glasgow service making a change at Carlisle for the 14:10 to Whitehaven. The 10:08 was delayed, driver on delayed inbound service, we...

I travelled today on a Northern service from Carlise, I heard the guard talking to the person sat behind me, what he said was 'this ticket has tomorrow's date on it', the woman said it was issued to her at a station I did not catch, there followed a conversation, the upshot of which was that the...

I caught the 10:03 Morecambe to Carlisle service today getting on at Sellafield. I was asked to take part in a survey that asked questions like postcode of workplace and home, which stations I was travelling between and a few others similar to ones I have had before about rail travel, what was...

When booking Whitehaven to Northampton return I noticed that the options for the return give two options, the expected one NMP to Birmingham direct, but also to travel NMP to Milton Keynes then MK to Crewe to pick up the Birmingham to Scotland service. Now, I had thought that the route via MK...

I had some rail vouchers to use and as I was at Whitehaven station anyway earlier this week I decided to book return tickets standard class off peak return Whitehaven (WTH) to Northampton (NMP) at the station. The journey out starts on the 11:51 from WTH on 23/5 and the return on 2/6 starting...

I recently overheard the following exchange on a Northern Rail service. A couple got on the train at Maryport, when the guard checked their ticket (they were going to Blackpool) he made comment about their having bought 2 adult and 1 child ticket, using a family railcard but the child was not...

So I booked tickets on-line, usually I get them posted but due to an oversight I left the pick up from machine box ticked, oh well, a bit annoying and inconvenient but teach me to take more care. Anyway I decided to pop to the station this evening, and the machine would not work, it gave a 'due...