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You are arriving and leaving by train the way I suggested. For example: Bus Manchester-Denton Train Denton-Reddish South Train Reddish South-Denton Bus Denton-Manchester. I did it when it was Fridays only which was a lot more difficult as a teenager. I ended up travelling from Reddish South...

"Hiya mate, am I alright to help my Mum onto the train?" "Course you can. She's travelling to Edinburgh. *beep*" 5 minutes later. "Hiya, just helped my Mum onto the train." "Yep, no problem, have a nice day." Or alternatively: "Sorry, I can't let you through without a ticket, but I'll...

Not these days! Get the bus to Denton, train to Reddish South. Sit there for 30 minutes or so, back to Denton and up to the bus stop.

Indeed. It does help if you're closer to 16/17, look older and obviously stick to soft drinks mind. Strathcarron was particularly memorable. Did it on a Sunday with about a 4 hour wait. Aged 19, for the record! Had a few beers and some food. Got talking to the barman about what I was doing, and...

And keep an eye out for disruption working in your favour! Polesworth, for example, I noticed the Northbound train was cancelled one Saturday. Stop order on the one an hour later that I could make from home. West Midlands Day Ranger very quickly obtained and alighted a train at Polesworth...

For me, I just got (and indeed still do when there's a new opening) a picture of the platform sign. Such as this. But it's a bit of a novelty thing these days, so I do tend to take a picture of the train too. There's stations in London, Bickley and St. Mary Cray spring to mind where I've...

I started when I was a bit younger than you, and finished when I was 20. Granted, I could have finished a couple of years earlier if I'd properly gone for it. Start with Merseyrail would be my advice. But certainly don't expect them all to be that easy! I'd suggest either the Borderlands line...

I saw that earlier with a TfW 197, couldn't work out why!

Do Flixbus always use the routing specified on the cross channel routes? I'm looking at doing one to The Hague next week (as an absolute last resort!) and it says it uses the Eurotunnel. I absolutely refuse to use P&O Ferries under any circumstances, so if the routing is shown as Eurotunnel...

I'd say being near Queen Street and keeping an eye on things is the best strategy. Is your journey time critical? If so, be prepared to jump on the 05:20 Oban. If not, get the 08:23 and rake in the £££. From experience down south, CS are very good at contacting passengers. So if it does...

Yes, I think you're right. Glen Sannox did appear at home on the Barra run. I get the feeling Isle of Lewis is probably a bit big for it given it was designed for Stornoway originally. But there's nowhere else IoL can really go given I think it only fits Oban, Castlebay, Stornoway and Ullapool.

All sorts of reasons. Both down to the ships themselves and the ports they're operating in. Take the Leverburgh-Berneray route for example. The water gets pretty shallow with lots of obstructions underneath. Only two of CalMac's ships can operate it. Loch Portain and Loch Bhrusda. And the...

I was on one night running late and we had some passengers alighting at Glasgow. Not sure how, but the crew were aware of them being onboard, so they clearly had it officially agreed. As we passed Edinburgh Park the TM came down to tell them we were diverting so they'd have to come to Dalmuir...

If I were being cynical I might suggest that is entirely the point. Though it will mean GWR will have very accurate data on *exactly* how well used these services actually are.

I've been via Winchester on a Woking-Portsmouth stopper. Should have been all stops via the Portsmouth Direct, instead went RA Fratton. Had a TPE 68 a few years back that ended up reversing at Marsden and running onwards to Manchester via Hebden Bridge. I believe there was a railtour about 10...

As would I. Unless there was a TfW train in the station I'd just go straight downstairs.

The outbound portion was not valid, unless it was not possible for you to complete your journey the previous day. But the penalty fare amount rings alarm bells. Plus, assuming you travelled on a direct XC train, CrossCountry are not a Penalty Fare TOC. The experts on here, which I am not, will...

Let's be realistic. If you're travelling on that much of a budget that you're willing to consider using a bus over CrossRail, you're flying from Stansted.

It's not uncommon for LNER to refuse acceptance and/or GC to fail to organise it. So it's far from guaranteed there was acceptance.

Tell a lie actually, I've been checked on OuiGo.