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I am external and trying to better understand the NR pay bands. From looking at recent job ads, I believe that band 4 is equivalent to "£42,971 – £48,342" and band 3 to "£32,740 – £36,832". [Aside: Does the "B" (i.e. band 3B or 4B) signify anything?]. Is anyone please able to confirm these...

Precisely - something not lost on me. (Especially given that ticket office at the first station that I visited - having checked its opening hours - was closed without explanation).

Thank you - I see! Pick a valid journey but one in which the TOCs don't demand reservations. As luck would have it I was able to call into a local ticket office in the intervening hours. Although (nicely) bewildered by the request for the ticket - they happily sold me it - unlike their TVM...

Good question -and hopefully the thread topic is tweaked to reflect this relevant aspect of the discussion.

That would explain it perfectly - thanks. Indeed Avanti WC themselves failed to explain why they were unable to sell the ticket! Took a look at the website mentioned - but tbh am struggling how I might force the itinerary as suggested:

It isn't and I won't be entitled to a discount on the child ticket. But thanks for your helpful advice on my initial questions: I am going to get along to my nearest station to buy the ticket.

Thank you very much for the reply. Yes, essentially an All Line Rover - valid on CS in seated or in a berth with a sleeper supplement. I shall head to my local station and buy the return ticket and attempt to make a reservation. If I've left it too late for the reservation, then imagine being...

Hi there. I have a room only supplement to travel Euston to Fort William in the coming week, for me and my son (who is in the 5-15 age bracket). We shall make our way to Glasgow - probably the following day or early on Day 3. And then to back from Glasgow to London on day three. I am lucky...

Hi there I was in the habit of using Chiltern Super Off Peak Day Returns from AVP/AYL to MYB. I was using with a Network Railcard on weekends and the return fare was a very reasonable circa £11. I seem to recall similar fares existed south of Haddenham on the Chiltern Mainline - and on...

Hi there. Before the pandemic hit I *think* were some embryonic plans for a Milton Keynes date. What chance of MK making the poll?! Thanks for reviving these.

Could anyone please advise of fares (or a means to find fares) for the Weekend Travelcard ticket, which is available for Chiltern services on the Aylesbury line. It seems to be something of a anachronism, albeit a very welcome one for me. The ticket is described on the national rail site here...

Be interested if the dates on the Doodles listed could be extended out into April/May. Would be keen to sign up....

In sofar as it would indicate there was no intention to willfully travel beyond the validity of the first ticket but without a second one being available to purchase? (And particularly because there are never staff on board to approach to purchase it during the first half of the journey....)...

Quite sympathetic to this argument - surely there is no tech reason preventing it. But if that really is too much of an ask why can't TVMs simply include a permit to travel option (and perhaps only available "out of hours") , to at least offer the would-be passenger a legitimate means of...

Still feels like the exposing the data in such a user-friendly way could be exploited. Someone could easily share their log in. Perhaps I am being paranoid!

Aren't we saying the rights are equal. But the consequences of the latter are more problematic? As an aside: wouldn't this be easier if TVMs actually sold the fabled "permit to travel"? Do any modern machines even offer such an option?

Thanks for all your helpful replies so far, especially the thoughtful ones. And thank you for the practical suggestion of M-tickets. Perfectly good idea although my concern with those is being reliant on a phone/battery to prove my validity to travel (at 5am I have been known to leave the house...

Thing is, I already can on several of their machines. But not all. And, just for the record, I am a lot quicker at purchasing my split journey than many passengers seem to be at buying their "simple" one ticket journeys ;)

Not really. I don't know until shortly before making the journey which journey I will be making on any given date - so I really rely on "walk up" tickets. The idea of buying the second as an M ticket is appealing. Which would certainly be my approach if there was a guard on board...

But that would mean I couldn't do it as a walk up, right? Isn't there a required minimum period between doing the transaction and collecting. So assuming I am at the machine at 0515 - which is earlier than I would like anyway - I would need to make the transaction perhaps as early as 0315 to...