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While that may be true, Avanti's scheme is paltry compared to what their predecessors offered. I must have had several thousand pounds' worth of free first-class travel. Also got invites to the hospitality section at events such as when Morrissey played Old Trafford Cricket Ground, and some...

Valid until 24 August 2026. I have just gone back to the confirmation email to inspect the pdf version of the return ticket. Unlike the Google Wallet version, it does not have any date labelled as "Valid-from", but it does have "26 Jul 2026", without a label, immediately underneath the QR...

Yes, so £13.25 with my Senior Railcard.

This weekend, I bought an Off-Peak Return, i.e. not a day return, on the Virgin Ticketing app to travel from Nuneaton to Rugeley Trent Valley. I asked to travel out on Saturday 25 July and return on Sunday 26 July. I was surprised that the return ticket, after adding it to my Google Wallet...

Tonight I have a 55-minute wait until my train out of Euston, so thought it was finally a good time to use my Club Avanti First-Class Lounge voucher. Arrived to find the lounge already closed at 20:00, despite there being services for another 3+ hours. On a Mon-Fri, it closes at 21:00, which...

This is something to be aware of when travelling with Avanti. Based on my experience today, when you book directly with Avanti and reserve two adjacent seats, do not assume that means you will be seated together. Also do not expect to receive any advance communication from them that anything...

I thought that legal remedy was to put the aggrieved party in the position they held had the breach not occurred, not had the contract not existed? Otherwise, any contract would be worthless. It's also notable that under EU261/UK261 for airlines, strikes by directly employed staff are no...

It's the same every single strike, the TOC's website happily tell you what your options are if you "choose not to travel", but there is never any section outlining your options and legal rights if you do have to travel on the strike day. Cross-ticket acceptance with Avanti is surely the bare...

1) How much is daily seat capacity reduced by the speed reduction? 2) Is the problem that the line cannot be physically completed in at least another 10 years (and, if so, why not?), or that the Government wants to spread the costs over a longer period and is scaling back on effort?

I need to caveat this answer with the fact that it's been a few months since I booked using a Club Avanti code, and Avanti have changed their desktop booking site for the worse since then. It's now next to useless. You have to be psychic because you can no longer see on the list of trains...

We have just departed on the 22:30 Euston to Wolverhampton Avanti service, but feeling quite stressed and upset after being told our tickets were invalid, and allowed through after ten minutes only as a "one-off gesture". We are travelling from Euston to Rugby. We are using the return portion...

From a commercial perspective, it seems bizarre that they don't offer any incentive to keep buying your tickets on Avanti journeys over 75 miles once you've done 20. It's such a poor user interface, I can't imagine anyone using it of choice without some carrot.

It's showing Metropolitan Line from Farringdon to Baker Street, so it never occurred to me it might be missing other lines that are supposed to be open. How is anyone supposed to plan anything?

Curiouser and curiouser ... TFL on Chat tell me the Jubilee Line WILL be running. Odd that their journey planner doesn't agree.

Several months ago, I booked to see a show at The Bridge Theatre London (a short walk from London Bridge station) on Easter Monday (6 April). It is expected to finish around 22:10 and we need to get home to Nuneaton. Normally, we would drive to Rugby and do a round-trip from there. Then they...

These are not my actual train times; I am simplifying here for clarity: If your journey comprises: - Train 1 from 23:00 to 00:10 - Train 2 from 00:30 to 01:00 the Avanti Delay Repay system will not accept it. When you enter the individual trains manually (as I had to), it gives the error that...

That's great. Thank you very much.

With the Hull Trains matrix booking engine gone overnight last night, I am after advice on where to research my train journeys now please. Obviously I use classic.trainsplit.com to research possible train splits and brfares.com to see all possible fares for a given station pair. However, that...

That's useful. Thanks Ian.

I thought the engineering blockades were planned at least a year in advance? I'd have thought that budgeting for them makes that a necessity. Certainly when sports fans have complained about having no public transport, news articles have quoted rail industry sources as saying it was the event...