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Hi folks. Simple question... How long after purchase is a digital railcard (26-30) ready to use? Many thanks.

Break of journey restrictions are contained within each ticket's restriction code. So, for example, code VN restricts BoJ on the outward portion. It says the restriction code is valid on Mondays-Fridays. nre.co.uk/vn I take this to mean I can use a ticket marked VN to break a journey on a...

Hey guys. Got a headache inducing journey to make and I could do with some help with the best (cheapest) ticket combination. The itinerary is as follows (timings from NRE) Friday 01/09 Milton Keynes Central -> Euston dep 18:24 Saturday 02/09 Waterloo -> Winchester dep 07:10 Winchester ->...

Seems there's a new split ticket booking engine available. Do we reckon ticketclever.com is any good? Initial impression is that the user interface is good, but I am not yet sure if it's any good at finding split tickets.

Hi Guys. I need to travel from Milton Keynes to Burton (up)on Trent on the 27th Feb I need to be there before 08:30 and would rather avoid catching the 05:37, but may do on cost ground if other options prove unfeasible. Trouble is the only other option is the 06:41, which involves...

Need to buy my Grandma a senior railcard in the morning. She previously had one and is clearly old enough. She doesn't have a passport, birth certificate, driving license or her old railcard on her, and we already have railcard discounted tickets that we need to travel on. She does have...

I'm sure TPE had an increased service at Motherwell recently, but it seems to now be back down to 2 northbound calls a day, set down only for the second one. What happened to the improved service? --- old post above --- --- new post below --- Nobody? I just noticed though, that the 0800...

Any idea if Harrow-on-the-hill sells a full range of national rail tickets? thanks

Had a bit of fun in London yesterday. I presented my Great Escape voucher at Wembley Central, as it is a staffed station served by London Midland (now, regularly during the day too). I knew however that as the ticket office isn't staffed by LM, I might encounter an interesting reaction...

What are the chances of claiming delay repay if I have to leave more than an hour earlier to reach my destination? Booked 0742 from Milton Keynes to get to Leamington Spa at 0837, would have to leave an hour and a minute earlier to get there at the same time, due to the cancelled engineering...

I'm going to buy my daytripper in London next weekend. Any suggestions as to a station to try and buy it from? :) Don't mind a challenge!

What's a sensible way of deciding which stations are shown as interchange symbols, and which are shown as standard symbols? Is there a magic formula to use? Example maps: http://www.projectmapping.co.uk/Resources/TOCs%20AS%20v7.9%20Jan%202015.pdf...

On a recent journey I changed at Kirkdale to get from Kirkby to Ormskirk. (That's a lot of 'kirk'!) I felt rather silly that I changed there when there is a possibility of walking between Rice Lane and Walton and even likely making a train up! It's a -1 minute at KKD but a 4 minute walking...

One of the things I have been enjoying since March 2013 are parkrun 5k (3.1 mile) running events situated all around the country and even world! http://www.parkrun.org.uk/events/events/ One aspect I particularly enjoy is combining it with my enjoyment of train travel, and travelling to visit...

NRE seems to have been upgraded, and now shows the individual tickets clearly when it suggests that more than one ticket is needed. Doesn't mean the referral to the ticket provider's website works though. Is the basket feature new too?

I have booked and received off-peak return tickets for this Thursday on Trainsplit. I wanted seat reservations on the return trip, from Melton Mowbray to Nuneaton, but I was unable to book the itinerary I wanted for the outward trip, so I therefore have seat reservations on the outward trip that...

I have noticed (at least, so far), that no matter who I buy tickets from online, and have them sent in the post, the 'undelivered' return address is always to the Fleming Centre in Crawley. Does anyone know what is there? Is this where all tickets are printed and packed, or just returns are...

TrainSplit.com now splits advance fares. It is now incredibly good at finding the absolute cheapest possible tickets for the fastest itinerary at a given time. (without BoJ/routing cleverness, or "exploits") The things it doesn't do are the things that let it down, somewhat. It is still...

TOCs like Northern and Southern are basically responsible for serving every station in their area, but there are odd examples of stations they only pass through. For Southern, Cheddington, Kings Langley, Apsley and Bushey are stations not stopped at on the WCML. Hedge End, Botley and...

Virgin and London Midland both carry passengers between Milton Keynes and London and I believe this benefits passengers making this journey in terms of fares. There are a lot of fares available, and recently some fares have come down, I believe due to competition. There are operator...