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Do I really have to wait over two hours? Narrowly missed a connection between St Pancras and Kings Cross. Who would be responsible for rerouting me? Should I go back to St Pancras and speak to SouthEastern? Also as the disruption was cause by SouthEastern and they have that mutual agreement...

I'm just on a service from York to Bridlington via Selby and Hull, departing from York platform 1. A couple of minutes before the train was due to depart, railboard, most online systems with the exception of RTT (which often doesn''t update anyway) changed the patform to platform 9. In...

I've often thought of this, such places often seem like the pole of inaccessibility to me: Which towns Britain require more than one bus/other means of local public transport to access the railway? Obviously we'll have to come up with some definitions: A town is a place either with a town...

I'm going to Inverness on the Chieftan on the 15th, returning on the 19th, planning to get the 1248 as I believe this should be worked by a HST - though I've not booked my ticket back yet. Managed to get a first class advance on the way there for not much more than the SVS, standard advance...

On the Hull Trains website the following is shewn: Yet when I went to Selby ticket office the clerk was physically unable to sell it. She was very apologetic and said that it hadn't been loaded on to their system and that this has been brought up internally by ticket office staff. I did note...

This goes as a lesson to us all when we try to fight for reasonable routes: The sequence of events: Following correspondence with Hull Trains one weekend when their trains either didn't call at Doncaster or were marked pick up only Southbound, I complained about the lack of options for...

I'm planning a return trip to Portsmouth and Southsea for the purposes of travelling via ferry to France. I've already booked Selby to London Kings Cross advance fares, but would like a degree of flexibility on the London to Portsmouth bit, so am planning to get off peak returns for these. I'm...

Currently on an Arriva Yorkshire bus from York to Selby. Much to my surprise an RPI (of sorts) got on at the designer outlet. How long has this been a thing? Tbh I don’t mind it as he didn’t seem too desperate. The only thing is it wasn’t a very effective revenue inspection as anyone who tapped...

During the disruption last night at Kings Cross, the LNER service to Selby via Hull did eventually run. However thanks to the sound of the crowd and being unable to filter out sounds in the way most people do, I wasn't able to catch it, as apparently it was only manually announced. I had been...

Trying to help someone get from Selby to Doncaster today. Unfortunately nothing whatsoever is showing as available in the journey planners. Any idea why this is? I know a way round this using split ticketing at Leeds indirectly but why can’t the direct services be booked or any service on a...

I’m trying to buy an offpeak to Thirsk for travel tonight. The relevant trains are running and are bookable as a sum of their parts. But it says no journey found when I try to get a ticket to there using either the single, return or open return option, is there any way round this. Ps the TVMs...

Reliance LIVE Interesting phrasing. Are Transdev buying out Reliance outright, part of it or have they merely come to an agreement to take over the routes? I note also that Transdev's short hop tickets are significanlty more expensive than those of Reliance at a whopping £2.50...

Apologies if this has been done before, I couldn't find anything and it seems quite new, but some former 'TPE only' fare routes have been renamed 'Northern & TPE', thus giving the passenger more flexibility. I noticed this when planning a day trip from Selby to Hull and despite brfares saying...

I recently made a request to LNER as fare setter of the flow for the Selby to Doncaster 'any permitted' ticket, as to when the validity via Leeds was withdrawn. I do seem to remember via Leeds being permitted many years ago. Does anybody know when this was? I say this as this was the response...

I notice there's been a lot of press coverage around the assisted dying bill. To me, it still seems a bit too nanny state and will force those with more than six months to live longer in agony. What about those for whom life is unbearable but not terminal? Surely they have even longer to...

The beauty of rail travel is you get to view vast swathes of the UK's towns and cities and many smaller places. However, despite my suspicion of towns not served by rail, there are some that are very worth of a visit. To us who use the train primarily, they can be either hidden gems or like...

Obviously there's the Welsh Highland Railway, is it worth it - seems a bit pricey? I did enjoy the Ffestiniog railway a number of years ago, having done the Ffestiniog Round Robin though. I'm staying 3 nights in Caernarfon this week, will likely be using a 1bws ticket to get around (seems...

E-tickets are vastly superior to m-tickets, that isn't up for debate but what I'd like to know is what remaining disadvantages are there for e-tickets versus credit card size ticket stock (CCST)? To clarify I'm not talking about flows for which e-tickets are not yet enabled. I can think of a...

Hi, I just need some practical advice on how fares work in Belgium. It'll be my first time in Belgium other than passing through on the way to somewhere else, so be gentle. For the railways it all seems to be point to point, am I correct? But there also seems to be a zonal structure of sorts...

I'm trying to follow the 'Disputed Route Procedure' in the National Routeing Guide. This follows on from my thread on Selby to Doncaster Routeing. Given that there's an any permitted ticket clearly intended to allow travel via at least one of Leeds/York ('Any Permitted'), and given that...