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The rush hour gap from County Durham into Newcastle seems to have been filled by an LNER extra from Darlington at 0808, calling Durham at 0827, filling the gap between the TPE and the Northern train, hopefully preventing the Northern from becoming unusably overcrowded.

I've been using the LNER site for a long time (plus its predecessors, ever since they put in the "MixingDeck" interface), whatever they have done recently which introduced this booking engine update has finally driven me away. Neither my wife nor I could find the option to "add" additional...

Might be for Grand Central's new fleet, or even Transpennine if they want more flexibility to use 80x on Teesside services.

There's actually a good chance that the train doesn't "know" where it is. The standard of the passenger information screens "knowing" where the train is may be mich lower than needed for a safety critical system. I've been on even modern trains (class 700) where the PIS was announcing the...

It was the USA, I think the issues were their bank having blocked the transactions, but many inexperienced tourists are less likely to know what to tell or check with their banks. It also wouldn't have worked for the teenagers in any case.

However they still require you to 1. Fill out a load of "paperwork" (including evidence of identity etc.) which may be challenging for some and almosr impossible for others 2. Have reliable Internet and an up-to-date smartphone or laptop to manage it 3. Be able to handle tallying up in your...

My foreign family members found that their (otherwise valid) Visa and Apple Pay wouldn't work the Oyster gatelines, plus we had two foreign teenagers with us, last autumn. An alternative payment method was absolutely needed for them. On top of that, there are many people who want to watch...

I have to say I was reasonably impressed with the replacement bus operation tonight. I was expecting the replacement service to fall apart as drivers did not want to come out this late on Christmas eve, but as far as I can tell there were 3 or 4 buses out on the road until gone midnight. Part of...

Thanks for this, pity you've been better at publicising this than Nexus...

The other consideration that seems still to be addressed is how there's going to be any sensible public transport offer for South Tyneside or east Gateshead on Boxing Day or later into the evening Christmas and New Year's eve. Metro normally operates until midnight on 24 and 31 December...

However, unlike most other non-London English cities parts of the daytime network do run until well after midnight. As well as the X1 (24/7), 63 and 74 (24/2) and 97 mentioned above, there are eleven other routes which have last departures from Birmingham at or after 1am (X4, 6, 7, 9, 16, 23...

Their agents on Twitter authorised a night in a hotel. Let us hope they don't renege on their deal. If the 2200 does run, I'm not sure standing for 4-5 hrs overnight on a full 80x would be satisfactory. I can imagine it being very heavily delayed en route --Edit-- And given LNER tweeted this 40...

I live on Tyneside, so this isn't near home...

Exactly this. Lumo are being a bit naughty in my opinion by saying "you can request a full refund" through the relevant channels, when should 28.2 apply, I think disrupted passengers are actually entitled to 1. Accommodation for the night 2. Travel the following day (or whenever lines reopen)...

Not sure if this is in the right section. Please do move it if it's not in the right place! I'm not clear if section 28.2 of thr NrCoT covers if one is unable to start one's journey. In addition are Lumo covered by the NRCoT? Thanks in advance!

My understanding is that that 9.5% has "harmonisation" strings attached (like removing paid rest breaks and allowances for extra travel to work time for those who were employrd to now-closed depots for some staff) meaning that for some this may be a per hour worked reduction in pay. It's also...

Not sure where you see that. I see 4-5tph between Levenshulme and Manchester Piccadilly on 18/12, spread fairly evenly across the hour. I actually suspect the Sunday timetable is not completely uploaded yet given some odd gaps.

Unfortunately Durham appears to be a big loser though, in most hours services from Newcastle will leave at 29, 35, 40 and 43 minutes past each hour, meaning 45 minute gaps every hour (including the peaks). In the current timetable, the Liverpool leaves around 06 so there's never more than a 30...

If you're just up for one day then the ticket machines sell Metro day tickets for the zones you want. If you are doing lots of travel including lots of bus and metro journeys then a Network One Day Rover will do Bus+Metro+Ferry (plus Sunderland to Blaydon on Northern) unlimited within Tyne and...

For me, one of the biggest issues is that I don't believe ticket machines and apps have a duty of impartiality, wheras ticket offices do. Just the other week I was at a Southeastern station wanting to buy a ticket which wouldn't be valid until 1201. I couldn't buy that ticket from the machine...