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Apologies if this is a highly simple, silly question - I sort of have this vague recollection of if you bought a single ticket you could upgrade it to a return by paying an excess. So my friend is going from Bloxwich to Stafford as a day trip; and has bought a single fare for £9.50 digitally -...

Sunday Times reporting... Virgin Trains have applied to be an open access operator on the West Coast Mainline. 10 car trains. If I am reading the article correctly, 1tph to Preston via Manchester, Liverpool and Brum. Glasgow to London once every two hours. Always interested in thoughts on...

There's a great fare advertised on the Rail Sale website of Glasgow to Sheffield with TPE for £10 something. I've spent ages on different ticketing engines trying to track that fare down - any idea how I encourage the computer to show it to me. I've tried things like 'via' and can't find a...

Hello all, Just to stress, I've read Yorkie's excellent thread on this from a few months ago and I've done a few searches on the forum to try and understand how GC handle things. So, say I am getting the first GC train from KC to York on Saturday and the last GC train from York to KC on...

So, the journey is Maidstone East to Bristol Temple Meads on an advance ticket. In the olden days, from memory, with these sort of long distance advance tickets (and I am thinking on Virgin Trains for instance) you were allowed to get any service for the unreserved 'connecting' bit, in this...

Hi, Many years ago (maybe 2012) I used a great ticket from Chester and maybe Crewe called the Saturday Off Peak Travelcard on Virgin Trains. Basically, you booked an advance ticket on a Saturday morning and could get any train back on the Saturday night, plus you got a travelcard. Great for a...

Hi there, Hopefully this is in the right forum. So a friend of mine has just been made an hour late by ticket queues at Victoria. He claims (I suspect a slight exaggeration) there are queues of about 100 people for the ticket machines and counters at the station. He has been unable to buy a...

Hello chaps, If I buy a cheap day return to Milton Keynes on the Highspeed from Ebbsfleet International with a Network Railcard (c. £22) am I allowed to go via Stratford and Liverpool Street - BREAK MY JOURNEY at Liverpool Street (and go to a meeting) and then continue on, on the tube, to...

Good evening, I recently had to use up a £50 rail voucher, so planned a trip up north over Christmas. In order to purchase advance tickets, and because you don't get change from a £50 rail voucher, I chose to purchase a whole range of tickets from a ticket office down here in the South East of...

Good morning chaps, A couple of quick questions if I may. I was wondering whether the 10:30 VT Euston to Glasgow will be a 9 car or 11 car train. Even though I have advanced tickets, I was thinking of sitting in the unreserved carriages, especially if it's an 11 car train, as these are...

Guys, Any idea why the 22:50 Virgin Train from Euston to Manchester Piccadilly takes such a long time? I will be going to Stoke this week - can't see any engineering works or anything. Is it because I will be using the slow lines or something like that, or maybe we're going via Birmingham...

As a passenger who's looking at places to move to near London, I was aware of the Thameslink programme. I've done some digging to try and work out where I might like to base myself more permanently... Forgive me if this is an obvious point, but it seems to me that all this extra capacity is...

I started one of these threads in the summer and said I might ask about London as well - just researching places to live at the moment. I'd love to live somewhere within 90-120 minutes train journey of London - but in a beautiful location - no more than 3-4 miles from the rail station...

Hello, I'm a very law abiding citizen and want to make sure I do the right thing. I'm off from Frodsham to Lancaster tomorrow. Say I can't get a ticket on the train between Frodsham to Warrington. I have a 6 minute change at Warrington to a train (which is only one an hour as far as I can...

Could someone explain to me the thinking here? Frodsham - Lancaster tomorrow, return. £18.10 Helsby - Lancaster tomorrow, return. £37.10 Why the astonishing difference in price?

Hi guys, Going to take a train circa 9:30 from Chester and go to Leicester tomorrow. I'm very relaxed about all the changes, as I'm keen to have nice air conditioned trains rather than that Crewe to Derby thing! So I will go via Stafford etc. Any ideas about cheaper tickets, splits etc...

Good evening! With my job I can pretty much move anywhere in the UK - but ideally I'd like to be based 1hr/1hr 30 from Manchester - maximum 2 hours. My main criteria is that the house is in a very scenic place, but max 5 miles from a station with a reasonable train service to Manchester...

Hi guys, My ticket was a day return from Frodsham to Huddersfield at about £17.80 (ish). Came back from Huddersfield today, the train I was catching back (Newcastle to Man Pic) was delayed, due to vandalism further up the track. It was delayed by about 15-20 minutes and subsequently I...

Afternoon, I'm thinking of going to Huddersfield on Saturday. I can drive to a station near Chester, as long as I can park - wondered what the cheapest way would be...? Splitting via Manchester? So Chester to Huddersfield - ideally not using an Advance ticket. £30 seems a bit steep...

Hello guys, I'm trying to solve this one - I'm picking a friend up from any of the following stations: Shrewsbury, Chester, Crewe, Caersws. We're flexible (or any other near by). I'm trying to get the cheapest ticket from Skipton to one of these destinations. It's looking like Skipton...