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Hoping I can get some expert advice here on a Merseyrail penalty fare issued last week - I’ll upload the tickets and redacted penalty fare notice on the next post. The passenger was a middle-aged German national with good English (but clearly not first language) who was returning to the Wirral...

Is Transpennine facing particular issues on the West Coast operation? Just been with them for a couple of days and both my long-distance journeys (Lime St to Glasgow and return) were cancelled throughout; on one of them they refused to allow re-routing via Northern services Liverpool to Preston...

Hi all - TPE have cancelled the 1611 Glasgow Central to Liverpool Lime St (planned arrival 1946) today 18 Feb. I have an advance ticket on this train. TPE can only offer the 1707 Glasgow Central to Manchester Airport as far as Preston, and then the 2029 (Northern) Preston to Liverpool Lime St...

I’ve a Scotrail email reservation on the West Highland Line soon (1634 Queen St to Oban, ) and the reservation says ‘Coach E’ - looking at RTT it’s normally just a 156+153 - I don’t think this service is ever 6 coach, is coach E a default for the 153? Thanks

Hi, I have an Avanti Advance single from Euston to Liverpool Lime St. Can I leave the train at Crewe (as by chance I will have a family member passing Crewe by car who can give me a lift home direct to the Wirral, saving me the faff of going to Lime St and changing onto Merseyrail), or might I...

Quick question (as Merseyrail are quite literally refusing to confirm either way!) - is an anytime day return from Manchester to Spital valid via either Chester or Lime Street? No operator, peak or train restrictions on the ticket which simply says ‘any permitted’. (Context - Spital (on the...

Just checking times for trains out of Lime St and noticed the 1356 Lime St-Chester via Runcorn (TfW) showing cancelled, stating ‘No ticket acceptance in place on other routes’. Looking on RTT, TfW have cancelled all those services until 1556. Given Merseyside are running a normal Sunday...

Does anyone know the reason why this service spends 11 mins waiting at Bank Quay on Saturdays only? From Llandudno Jcn to Warrington BQ it runs 10 mins or so earlier than the equivalent weekday train (and the reasonably clock-face timetable operating weekdays and the rest of Saturday) from...

An incredible 50 Trainline reports of overcrowding on one of the Norwich to Liverpool EMRs this morning; plus a four-car mid-morning EMR Liverpool service being split down to two-car at Sheffield; and reports on EMRs twitter feed of police being needed to deal with overcrowding ’disorder’ when...

Has anyone heard of problems with Trainline app this morning? I purchased tickets from Lime St to Mcr Oxford Road this morning on Trainline, got the confirmation ‘you’re going to…’ in-app, got the applepay confirmation and can see the transaction on my credit card statement - but no record of...

Just planning the above journey for Sat 11th Sept on RTT and noticed that a perfect storm of the Norwich-Liverpool service cancellations, and what I assume is engineering work on the Warrington Central line, means that there will only be the hourly Crewe-Liverpool class 319 stopper between...

Just on the above train to Manchester - any one any idea why speed limited to 70mph all the way to Manchester? Unit feels fine and nothing seems to be late in front of us?

Upton (Wirral) is cited in the Sunday Times today as the station with the most late trains in the country (99.8%) - an interesting consequence of the timetabling sleight of hand that allows what’s essentially an hour long journey to be run as an hourly service with just two intensively-worked...

This morning (Sat 27 Feb) three of the early long-distance Transpennine Express services from Liverpool were cancelled - the 0612 and 0812 to Newcastle, and the 0922 to Scarborough. Later, the 1212 to Newcastle and the 1222 to Scarborough were also cancelled. TPE are blaming driver shortages...