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I have my own business, travel around 30,000 miles by rail every year as my customers need me to be on-site 80% of the time. I really don't need any TOC or anyone for that matter advising me not to travel that week as I can already see the chaos that will ensue, so have now made costly plans to...

I encountered this some time ago trying to buy a 1st anytime from Manchester to Macclesfield, no fares available but if the destination changed to Euston then magically fares/seats would suddenly be available. At the time I bought a Standard and upgraded with the TM as I boarded - coach J was...

Currently crawling along on the 1915 Birmingham New St to Glasgow; somewhere between New St and Sandwell & Dudley at the moment. The TM has reported "signalling problems over whole area due to concrete being thrown onto the track and damaging signalling equipment." If only I could get my hands...

OK Many thanks, its the only problem I've had on this site so far so will just get a ticket to Stockport and get off at Piccadilly.

Can anyone shed light on this? I regularly use the GWR booking site and App for my e-tickets for frequent business journeys. Today I'm trying to book a Senior Railcard Off-Peak Single from Wigan Wallgate (1149) to Manchester Piccadilly (1236) for Thursday 7th April. On entering the details I'm...

The TPE App has completely failed this week. With several bookings on my account I'm now having to dig out and print pdf copies to avoid the ignomy of being challenged by staff or Revenue Protection on board. I've exchanged phone calls and emails with TPE Customer Relations, they apologise a lot...

I'm reporting an unusual occurrence on the TPE App this morning & I'm wondering if any others have encountered similar/same? I buy all of my many railway tickets through TPE and use the App to display the mostly barcoded tickets. Every now and then a ticket is set to 'Print at Station'...

Just boarded the 0730 Burscough Bridge to Alderley Edge service which is 2 coaches. It is already heaving and thankfully I'm off at Wigan but I rather think that by the time it's is even halfway to Manchester it will be a steaming petri dish of Covid particles. Northern it seems back to the bad...

I've tried to use this 6 times in the past few weeks and it has never worked once. On a Wigan-Euston pendo earlier this week it got as far as taking my payment then texting to say "order received" only to get a text 5 mins later saying "your order has been cancelled"! Talk about over promise and...

That's really helpful; in this particular case I'm terminating the journey at Euston, indeed a hotel in Tottenham Court Road so in fact Euston Sq (using an oyster card from Liv St) will be slightly closer at the other end. Very useful info for the next time I do this journey, much appreciated, Mike

This may seem obvious but after reading the Prosecutions threads I want to be sure of my ground. I have an Anytime Day Single, Bishops Stortford to London Terminals which is marked "Valid via any permitted route". As I want to go to Euston can I take the Victoria line from Tottenham Hale to save...

BBC News now reporting that one of the train drivers received "life changing injuries" - my heart goes out to that individual and his family and colleagues... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-59116800

Caught the 11.11 Wigan to Euston yesterday (Weds); it was completely rammed. The TM declassified the whole train at Warrington which alleviated things somewhat. No 1st class service anyway (crew had been booked from Glasgow and the service started at Preston). No at seat service and the shop was...

I am rammed into K10, a small table with much less elbow room than most seats in J &H.

Tonight I have just departed Lime St on the 1847 bound for Euston. It is a 9 car Pendo and coaches H & J have been designated Standard Premium. I'm in K, in a tiny seat, no elbow room paying a much higher price than the TWO people who are in H/J. I've been travelling the NWCML with Virgin then...

I used Amex for a number of years to book tickets online and less frequently to buy walk up fares at ticket machines or ticket offices. In general, travelling extensively across the UK I had very few issues. All online sites I used accepted it, all ticket offices accepted it. The only snag was...

There is certainly no route mentioned on the paper ticket...

Thanks for the updates and yes based on the advice given that's the plan now... he will show the ticket relevant to that part of the journey if asked. This forum is so useful for answering these questions - much appreciated.

Thank you, much appreciated.

My son, home for the weekend, has the return portion of an Off-Peak Return Cardiff Central to Altrincham, which was supplied by his company. He wants to return direct to Cardiff Central from home (Parbold or Wigan stations) either tomorrow or Monday. We assume that he should join the route at...