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This morning I was trying to buy an open return on a TVM at Manchester Piccadilly to Windermere (on the 10.26 TPE). Not only was it apparently only offering day returns rather than an option for opens when I clicked flexible tickets, when I got exasperated and clicked single ticket it said it...

I'm needing a one-way ticket from Preston to London on the afternoon Sunday 29th March, and on looking at the Avanti site they all seem sold out? Is this a website error? (if I click earlier or later times, it still says the same). I was expecting to find many advances available considering...

I'm travelling tomorrow on one of these Trenitalia "Regional Digital Tickets" from Trieste to Venice, but the PDF they sent is all greyed out (not the usual Trenitalia red/green eticket colours) and says "Not valid for travel". Do I need to pick a ticket up, or does this constitute a booking...

I fear this might be a bit late as this was at the beginning of March, but my father in law just sent me all these details now, so I said I'd try! He booked advance tickets on Trainline from Basingstoke to Leeds on 1st March, Basingstoke 0716 to York via Kings Cross, arriving 1053 (Kings Cross...

I'm helping a friend book travel from London to Berwick-Upon-Tweed for 15th May after 6pm and returning on 18th May anytime in the afternoon. The cheapest ticket I can find, even using split tickets and the forum engine, is around the £140 mark. This feels really high considering it's over 2...

My wife and I need to get to Swindon for this evening for the weekend, and as she can only get out of work around 4.30 we thought we'd get a train around then. But I notice the 1552 train via Reading is £56 (for two on a two together railcard return), and the next train - the 1629 - is £103.30...

Last Friday, I used my contactless card to get from Waterloo to East Finchley (I always use Oyster normally, as I have a gold card loaded onto it, but due to train delays I was in a rush and there was not enough credit on my Oyster and I didn't have time to top up). I think its the first time...

Last week (Tuesday) I had a typical nightmare journey on DB as I was trying to get back from Wurzburg to London. Hoping someone here has experience of claiming money back from them, as I've not done it before but I've had a considerable outlay I'd like to get back. My original itinerary was...

I've been sat on the 2005 from Waterloo to Bournemouth for nearly an hour now and it's yet to leave Waterloo. According to a passenger group I'm on there is a broken rail at Hook which has caused a huge backlog of delays, though information from SWR is very scant. Apparently trains are moving...

Just a quick one - today I was just doing a one way journey from Markinch to Edinburgh at 1314, which the national rail site said was £10.30 for a super off peak return, presumably not showing a single as the return was cheaper. The TVM only offered me £12.90 standard return (£13 for a...

I'm trying to look for trains between London/Scotand/North England for the week between 24th and 31st December, but on both NR and split ticketing they either show scant trains with no fares (or v. expensive fares for the couple that are fared), long journey times or saying that no timetables...

Mod Note: Posts #1 - #49 originally in this thread. Judging from what I'm seeing on the various accounts I follow about this, tonight is going to be a long night for Ukrainians.

This is a small issue but its been bugging me for a while. Since the pandemic, I've ditched my annual season ticket from Basingstoke to Waterloo, and just travel in on off peak day returns once a week with a Hatton/Lapworth Gold card discount. I travel on the 0937 train (arriving 1023), and...

I am in possession of an annual season ticket from Basingstoke to Waterloo via Woking (plus zones 1-6). Lately I've had a couple of evenings in Reading, and the first time I went happened to be when I was renewing my season ticket. I asked for a day return to Reading, and I was told they just...

Sorry I couldn't add to existing threads as they were locked, but Andrew Neil just tweeted this: Stealth nationalisation by the Tories may be starting? Or has he got the wrong end of the stick?

I saw this tweet which has been intriguing me this morning - a passenger is tweeting SWR complaining her delay repay was rejected due to the reason she "had already reached the maximum pro-rata full days travel". Could someone explain what this is? Assuming her quote from the rejection email...

I was flying from Southampton at the weekend, and on Friday I tried to purchase an off peak return from Basingstoke to Southampton Airport Parkway on my Network Railcard. The machine did not have returns listed, so I went to the desk and they said SWR don't offer return tickets on this route. So...

SWR keep promising that next year delay repay will be automated on advance tickets and season tickets. Whilst I can see how it works on the advances (it's worked very well for me on Virgin), how on Earth does it work on season tickets? Given you touch in for the station and not your exact train...

Sorry if this has been covered before but I can't find anything on the search. Why is the UK different from pretty much any other country I've been to in that trains are known by their time, rather than the number of the service? e.g. on my commute, the 0650 from Portsmouth, the 0816 from...