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Can one of you ticketing experts please help me plan a trip which is this… Easter Monday, Chesterfield to Barrow-in-Furness. Need to go via ManPicc and Lancaster to meet a mate and need to be in Barrow by around 12:00. Staying overnight in Barrow Tuesday along the coast Barrow to St Bees...

I’d be interested in everyone’s opinion. I’m a regular leisure traveller, often (but not exclusively) at weekends and it occurs to me that just like TFL, our trains should be dry - that is, no drinking alcohol or carrying open containers of alcohol. I should say that I absolutely enjoy a...

With Kings Cross being closed this coming weekend there will be total chaos on trains to and from Chesterfield / Derby into St Pancras. Got to travel on Saturday for football. I believe that an Off-Peak Return ticket between Chesterfield / Derby and “London Terminals” is valid for travel via...

I hope the experts can help. I’m intending to travel Chesterfield - Manchester Piccadilly - Birmingham New Street - Chesterfield on May Day bank holiday staying several hours in both Manchester and Birmingham. So a fairly early train from Chesterfield and a fairly late one from Birmingham...

Looking to travel on Sat 5 Apr, arriving Chester 10:30 – 11:00. The most obvious option is the route via Manchester or Stockport. But to meet up with another person also going to Chester I'd like to go via Derby & Crewe, and only go via Manchester or Stockport if the Derby–Crewe train didn’t run...

I think this is OK but could somebody better informed that me please advise If I have a Super Off Peak Return from East Midlands Parkway to St Pancras with a route of “Any Permitted” then is the return portion valid for starting short at Mill Hill Broadway on a Thameslink train and changing at...

I hope one of the fares experts can help me get the best value ticket. 2 adults, both with Senior Railcards wanting to travel as follows: Thu 14/12 Chesterfield to Aberdeen, leaving around 07:00 and arriving Aberdeen around 14:00 Fri 15/12 Aberdeen to Hartlepool, no real time constraints, but...

Can someone please clarify a rule for me? I was booked Chesterfield - Grantham - Ely on split tickets, both EMR advances. My train at 1155 was cancelled and the next one at 1254 was delayed by about 40 minutes. I could therefore get to Ely quicker via Leicester As I understood the rules...

I posted a query a couple of days ago about a journey from Chesterfield to Stockport. My journey was: Chesterfield to Sheffield Dep 1248 Arr 1300 EMR Sheffield to Stockport Dep 1311 Arr 1353 TPE The ticket was marked “Advance Single” & Route “Ap EMR & Connect”. Seat reservations shown for both...

Can somebody please clarify my options if I miss a connection? I've got a journey tomorrow from Chesterfield to Stockport, my ticket, bought from this site, is: Chesterfield to Sheffield Dep 1248 Arr 1300 EMR Sheffield to Stockport Dep 1311 Arr 1353 TPE The ticket is marked “Advance Single” &...

I think I know the rules should I be delayed on a journey with spilt advance tickets but could one of the experts please confirm I have a journey bought from this site with 3 advance tickets for: Chesterfield to Manchester “EMR Only” Manchester to Preston “Northern Only” Preston to Glasgow...

Slightly strange route but I took this because of replacement buses on the direct route from St Pancras My intended journey yesterday was 1930 from KGX arriving DON 2110 2121 from DON arriving SHF 2150 2157 from SHF arriving CHD 2208 My actual journey was: 1930 from KGX arriving DON 2139 2216...

Just wondered what might have happened... Two of us travelled Chesterfield to Dorking on Saturday (referee !!!! but that's another story) and we had tickets from Chesterfield to St Pancras. We couldn't find an Oyster map at StP so we went to the ticket office and asked whether Dorking was in...

I did an earlier thread on this I've now received a reply from EMR still refusing to pay out for Delay Repay EMR said “The information regarding our amended time table has been on our website since the 19th of June, when the time table was introduced which would provided passengers with...

Can somebody please advise? I booked a return journey from Nottingham to London Kings Cross with a change at Grantham. This journey was booked through RailEasy on 20/07 for travel on 01/08. On 29/07 RailEasy emailed to say that the intended connection from Grantham to Nottingham had been...

Can somebody please advise? I've got advance singles from Chesterfield to St Pancras and back, both my booked trains stop at East Midlands Parkway. Am I able to take an earlier outbound train from East Midlands Parkway and get off there on my return? I'm pretty sure the rules say I can't do...

Does anybody know how I can buy one of these, ideally via the Northern website? I've tried emailing and phoning Northern and they just answer different questions to the one I am asking. For example, they wanted to know where I was travelling to – but its an Explorer ticket so I don't have to...

I hope I've posted this in the right place What should I do if I plan a journey to get me to a sport event but because of a delayed train it becomes apparent that I'm not going to get there in time? Obviously I could abandon my journey midway, get the next train back in the direction of home...

I know there's a long running thread on Northern Sunday cancellations but this is slightly off-topic and I wondered whether there is such a thing as delay repay in reverse. Let me explain... I went from Chesterfield to Workington to watch a rugby league match which kicked off at 15:00 on Sunday...

Three of us travelled on the Shrewsbury – Wrexham service on Saturday morning with reserved seats. But when we got on board someone was sat in our seats and there wasn't an electronic display or a card saying our seats were reserved. We politely asked them to move, at first they refused but...