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I walked past The Alexandra Arms and The Brunswick today, unfortunately without enough time to pop in. Derby is certainly a great station for pubs. But earlier in the day, I changed at Rugby, which has zero hostelries nearby. They've opened a modern wine / cocktail bar quite close to Coventry...

I consider myself pretty good at buying train tickets but I'm really struggling with the cost of this one! I need to drop my son off at my parents for half term and then pick him up again. We have a Family & Friends Railcard. The cheapest I can get it down to is to buy an off-peak return...

National Rail says no discounts for Railcards or Children, which I take to mean that if you want to upgrade any qualifying ticket, whether it's a child fare / is Railcard discounted or not, everyone pays the same flat price (depending on length of journey). However, the only time I've upgraded...

NOTE: I typed this out on the Storm Goretti thread but it showed closed for further replies before I could post. I'm really shocked by the London Northwestern reduced timetable this evening. I'm off to MK to watch my team play Franchise in the FA cup, and up until this morning my journey from...

Hi all, I left my rucksack on the above seat racking on a Plymouth to Edinburgh Crosscountry when we alighted about an hour ago at Birmingham New Street. The train doesn't get to Edinburgh until 23.04. Is there any point trying to get through to control to ask the train manager to locate it or...

I submitted two delay repay claims with London North Western. It was for my wife, myself and my son, on a Family Railcard, with exactly the same split paper tickets. Instead of submitting each person separately, which would have taken bloody ages, I submitted each journey on one claim , but...

Stoke-on-Trent is somewhere I quite often travel to for the football and I love the --:47 non-stop Avanti service from Rugby as it gets me there in super-quick time. However, I was just planning my journey for an evening kick-off and the train didn't appear on Google Maps or the National Rail...

Hello all, just looking for some money saving advice. I've got a Family & Friends Railcard, with both my wife and I's names on so we can use it together or separately, as long as our 6 year old is with us. On Good Friday, we're all going to my parents together and then I'm going off to Wales on...

Hi all. I would usually put in a delay repay claim for this, but I'm worried it'll tie them up in knots and I also don't know which company to do it with! On Tuesday 11th February, the 22.50 from Birmingham to Northampton was curtailed at Coventry due to planned engineering works and customers...

I'm used to anomalies in ticket prices but this one is so weird, I'd like to ask the board what the reason might be and if there are any solutions to my problem. I'm travelling from Long Buckby to Hexham on Friday 25th October and returning Sunday 27th October. Because I have my 6 year old with...

Feel free to split this off into a separate thread but I was wondering about fares on the first phase of East West rail. I often travel from Long Buckby to Oxford via Coventry, which I imagine may still be slightly quicker than travelling via Bletchley due to the LNWR services dwell time at...

I've just had my delay repay claim rejected by Avanti and passed to West Midland Trains. I can see their point now I think about it and I believe it's because I caught a connection that was under the minimum connection time at Rugby. Here's what happened: I planned to catch the 07.25 LNWR...

Hello, In trying to work out the most cost effective and flexible ticket from Long Buckby to Wembley on Saturday, I've come across a strange anomaly. It seems that an off peak day return from Long Buckby to Milton Keynes is valid via Rugby, but tickets to destinations further South are only...

Unless it's rained or frozen off, I am heading to Carlisle in January for a football match. I have just booked advance tickets via Avanti, but chose an early morning train as it was dirt cheap! I have two possible plans of what to do with my spare time, but feel that either would be rather...

Can anybody tell me when the date for these tube line closures was decided upon? There is some possible misinformation going round on "X" that they are being closed in order to curb the numbers of the planned mass demonstration in support of Palestine. I think this is fanciful, but the earliest...

I want to travel from Didcot Parkway to Stevenage and back on Saturday 30th September. The GWR part is all good - I don't mind a packed train as long as I can get on! The LNER part is worrying me. Firstly the trains are every two hours so there's no fallback option. Secondly I've heard that...

I am eager to travel on a Crosscountry HST before they disappear and due to family and work commitments the only service I can realistically make is the 19.03 weekday service from Birmingham New Street to Tamworth. Then I noticed Tamworth FC are at home tomorrow night... bonus! But it looks...

I've got an East Midlands 3 in 7 Rover which I'm using on Saturday 19th August to go from Long Buckby to Sheffield and back. As Crosscountry are striking that day my planned route home in the evening within the confines of the Rover area is no good as both the line through Burton and the line...

Sigh... I had my journey and ticketing all sorted in my head and now it's all gone wrong - help me please! Friday 26th May: Long Buckby - Cross Gates (or Leeds, I could get the bus the last bit) Saturday 27th May: Cross Gates (or Leeds) - Long Buckby AND Long Buckby - Stoke-on-Trent Monday 29th...

Hello all, I've got a lovely ex-Northern Pacer destination blind and box. I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure it's a real blind, as it's quite grubby and even has an RMT sticker on the back! I was winding it to "Morecambe" the other day, as I like to display the next team Oxford United are...