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    Song about Merseyrail trains

    I happened to see this being performed live the other night and thought some of you might appreciate it. I wonder if he is a member here?
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    Northern Delay Repay incompetence!

    A couple of weeks ago I got caught up in the chaos caused by the extremely rainy weather (I hadn't realised the extent of the disruption when I started my journey). On the 7th Nov I travelled from Manchester Victoria to Leeds, and then back from Leeds to Todmorden, travelling only on Northern...
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    Overnight break of journey

    I’m currently travelling on the return portion of a Harrogate-Manchester anytime short return, having taken the 23:19 Northern service from Manchester Victoria. My plan is to stay overnight at Todmorden and continue on to Harrogate in the morning. However, the guard has said that this is not...
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    Hypothetical - would this have got me in trouble?

    The other day I had an advance Northern single for the last train from Manchester Victoria to Leeds (the 23:19 service). However, I was running early and arrived on the platform before the previous service, about twenty minutes earlier, had departed. The dispatcher noticed me waiting but not...
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    How do you get a 'promise to pay' ticket?

    Apologies if this has already been discussed elsewhere, but the other day I was waiting for a train at a station which was unstaffed at the time, and as I had a few minutes to spare I thought it might behove me to work out how to obtain a 'promise to pay' ticket from one of Northern's newfangled...
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    Time of train changed on advance ticket

    I purchased advance tickets to Glasgow from Salford Crescent for tomorrow (Tues 13th Feb) several weeks ago. I bought the tickets in person at a booking office and paid cash. On the tickets the departure time is printed as 08:38 (I will be changing at Wigan and arriving in Glasgow just before...

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