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@Haywain Book direct for EasyHotel, it's cheaper! I stayed at The Mobray, Eastbourne on Monday night and I couldn't fault it. Not the biggest double room I've ever stayed in, but certainly wasn't small. At £25 for the night (£30 out of season discount) I was really happy with it. Would...

True, I suppose. Not running them will probably see TPE services being overwhelmed over the weekends. I've seen plenty of full and standing adelantes on Saturday mid mornings, albeit admittedly not quite that full at this time of year. And from having been on one of those evening GC services up...

Last time I was on GC was a Voyager so I asked the member of staff serving in the buffet her opinion. Much better in general, although luggage space isn't as good and she personally preferred the buffet on the 180s was the general gist of it.

I'm flying from Heathrow to Manchester on Monday night. Could be interesting!

Lack of effort? They (in my experience) carry plenty of passengers from the North East to York and back of a weekend, so to imply passenger numbers won't warrant it isn't true. But wether they want those passengers is another matter!

AFAIK, one is stranded at Stranraer. Not sure about the other. Surprised ScotRail haven't recovered them by road like ATW did with those 158s when there were issues with Barmouth viaduct on the Cambrian given it became apparent very quickly it was going to be an extended closure.

Quite possibly, but what if the OP hadn't thought of doing that? Or even the ticket office staff worked out wether excessing/refund and replacing the tickets would be cheaper? You certainly can't get an excess online, putting aside thoughts of wether one is appropriate or not in this situation...

Maybe not over the complete length, but last time I was on the 20:30 TPE Carlisle-Manchester, the guard upgraded us all to 1st after Penrith. There were three of us travelling over Shap that night. The guard said it was normally pretty dead, which tallys with my experience. Used to get a...

Can I ask for 377115 and 377469 please? Wasn't intending to do GTR units today, but seeing as I'm on my only other required 377/1 up from Eastbourne it seems rude not to try and clear them! (Edited to add 377469, as my other required 377/4 has just won in identical circumstances!)

But when the OP boarded a train to Cardiff, they had a valid ticket, the ticket issued by the RPI which authorised them to complete their journey.

"Should of" instead of "should have" makes my skin crawl. But back on topic, would RPIs generally make note of someone with a less than fluent grasp on the English Language?

I was told by an RPI on TPE (admittedly 10 years ago, which is a bit scary...) that I'd boarded a train scheduled to call at my split point, and to stay seated and not worry about it despite us being subsequently diverted to avoid my split point. As long as the train was supposed to call at...

That's what I used to do too. Since getting a digital railcard I've managed to forget my Oyster twice and end up paying full fare.<(

My money's on "The fine for missing stops is less than the fine for not reaching the final destination". Don't forget of course on the Wirral line if you run semi fast and get back on time that's only one train disrupted as opposed to the two that would be disrupted by turning round at (say)...

You can claim delay repay after alternative travel is provided.

I mean, I went for the day. But I was in the Highlands anyway and got a discount with my Highland Rover. Came in at about £70 IIRC including the pod lounge on the journey South from Lerwick. Which I felt was reasonably good value all in, given that was for three ferries as I started from...

That sounds like a fair result.

They do indeed. When I went to Shetland, I did Scrabster-Stromness on NorthLink, bus to Kirkwall, drank a lot of beer then did Kirkwall-Lerwick on NorthLink. Was an excellent journey.

Can definitely be used on Uber Eats

There are 119 cabins for 600 passengers so they will sell out. I travelled to and from Shetland in September and could have got a cabin going to Lerwick, but chose not to as I'd only boarded in Kirkwall. There were none available for the crossing back to Aberdeen, but plenty of space in the pod...