Wallsendmag
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Seems like yearsThis didn’t all happen at the drop of a hat. There was months of planning.
Seems like yearsThis didn’t all happen at the drop of a hat. There was months of planning.
See my earlier comment about herding cats.Though seemingly still not enough planning for all operators to release their tickets at the same time - meaning a number of people will have been overcharged, thinking they were getting Rail Sale fares when in fact they were normal fares.
I couldn't agree more. However it seems unlikely that rail policy in general has a detectable influence over elections.Well if it's the best they can come up with, it's time for a change of government.
1804 Birmingham to Bournemouth last Thursday was 5 cars and packed like sardines as far as Coventry. All seats full until Reading.The only services where I see overcrowding are short-formed services. All sensible services in my region are now running with full-length trains, i.e. 10 cars between Bournemouth and Waterloo, 9 cars on CrossCountry, 8 or 12 cars on the Portsmouth Direct Lines, etc.
Short trains are only used on regional services where ridership is low, such as Winchester - Poole stopping services.
1804 Birmingham to Bournemouth last Thursday was 5 cars and packed like sardines as far as Coventry. All seats full until Reading.
Leisure travel has recovered nicley so having even more traveling could make services uncomfortably crowded. It would have been better to aim something at people who used to make train journeys for work but now use Zoom and work from home.
If the journey matches, the automatic form should work.Thanks. Tbh I never got around to doing that even when lockdowns prevented travel, I wasn't confident of doing it right, and in those cases obviously I wasn't buying a different ticket. Cost me quite a whack but I put it down to some people have lost a lot more in all sorts of ways.
Just out of curiosity could I claim on a standard class ticket that I've replaced with a first class one?
Journey 3 in booking [Ref] will be cancelled. You will receive a refund of £12.70.
Your tickets have been scheduled for cancellation; this typically completes within 2 hours. We'll send you a final refund confirmation email when we've issued your refund.
Journey No. Journey Paid Reason Refund Amount 3 Abergavenny to Stockport 21 May 2022 £25.73 Book with confidence - change of Advance fare £12.70 Admin Fee -£0.00 Total £12.70
Your E-Tickets for this journey are no longer valid. We strongly suggest that you delete all copies of them now to avoid later confusion. Please note that you must not attempt to use any tickets once they have been cancelled. The train company will refuse to accept them and you will have to pay for a new ticket. You may also be liable for a Penalty Fare or even for prosecution.
If you attempt to use any of your E-Tickets for this journey, your refund request will be rejected.
Yours sincerely,
The Raileasy Team.
And thinking they might get a seat .
All the Great British Rail Sale tickets on GWR (and almost every other TOC) are Advances, so come with a seat reservation (for the longer-distance / inter-city legs on GWR, though not for the Cornish branch lines). So no need to stand.Be lucky if they can get on the train at all, particularly where rolling stock is low.
Had to laugh at the Shapps video of "why not go to Cornwall for the beaches?". And stand for 3 hours in a vestibule next to an armpit to get there, that's not on the brochure though.
For Book with Confidence the journey doesn't need to match at allIf the journey matches, the automatic form should work.
Yes.Thanks. Tbh I never got around to doing that even when lockdowns prevented travel, I wasn't confident of doing it right, and in those cases obviously I wasn't buying a different ticket. Cost me quite a whack but I put it down to some people have lost a lot more in all sorts of ways.
Just out of curiosity could I claim on a standard class ticket that I've replaced with a first class one?
Until the train you are booked on has reservations suspended.All the Great British Rail Sale tickets on GWR (and almost every other TOC) are Advances, so come with a seat reservation (for the longer-distance / inter-city legs on GWR, though not for the Cornish branch lines). So no need to stand.
All the Great British Rail Sale tickets on GWR (and almost every other TOC) are Advances, so come with a seat reservation (for the longer-distance / inter-city legs on GWR, though not for the Cornish branch lines). So no need to stand.
And Holyhead-Cardiff, so on the Mk4 services.TfW are part of the offer in terms of the Manchester to Llandudno and Manchester-Cardiff services.
TfW are part of the offer in terms of the Manchester to Llandudno and Manchester-Cardiff services.
A brief has gone out to all TOCs which should be distributed to staff to ensure they are aware of this issue. I daresay that they will already have come across some of these tickets by now.I see that several people have encountered 'For Test Use Only'. I have just collected some tickets with it on.
Do we know conclusively whether this is going to be a problem? Have on-board staff been told to ignore it?
The tickets are for some elderly friends who don't speak brilliant English, so I'm a bit concerned.
Northern itself offer this option, are you able to choose from the four options before check out? Most of the other TOCs offer paper ticket as well, but XC charges additional £1, and some First group TOCs cannot check out for baskets under £1 so better avoid if with a railcard which bring the price down to 95p.I identified some Northern £1.50 offers, but when I booked them on their website they only offered e-tickets.
I'm OK with e-tickets on my mobile, but know others who prefer a physical credit-card sized ticket.
Which TOCs offer these Northern-priced tickets for collection from TVMs?
I booked all my rail sale tickets on LNER who do offer the option of collecting conventional paper tickets. You just have to remember to click on the rather bizarre "Don't have a printer or smartphone?" message and it offers the option to collect or have tickets posted out to you.I identified some Northern £1.50 offers, but when I booked them on their website they only offered e-tickets.
I'm OK with e-tickets on my mobile, but know others who prefer a physical credit-card sized ticket.
Which TOCs offer these Northern-priced tickets for collection from TVMs?
Weird. I’m offered paper ticket when logged in on their webpage. It just limits to e-tickets if I’m using the appJust found out when doing another dummy booking ...
At the payment stage, when prompted, I logged into my Northern account and was only offered the e-ticket option.
However if I used the guest option on Northern's website, I was given the choice of e-ticket, collection from a TVM or Royal Mail's Special Delivery
Weird. I’m offered paper ticket when logged in on their webpage. It just limits to e-tickets if I’m using the app
Enjoy your visit to Leicester - it's ace!!!! (well, quite good at least)I booked four different daytrips (one every week) from Manchester Piccadilly with my railcard throughout May on my quest to visit every city in the UK (target cities in bold):
Look forward to seeing how these journeys turn out; insane how cheap Northern are offering many of theirs (I've checked and even journeys as long as Sheffield to Scarborough are down to 95p), it's literally a steal!
- Sheffield & Lincoln (split ticket on Northern) - £3.80 total (95p per leg; insane!!)
- Hereford (TfW) - £15.10 total (£7.55 each way) which is decent
- Sheffield & Leicester (split ticket Northern & EMR) - £5.20 total
- Norwich (EMR) - £23.20 total (£11.60 each way) racking up the mileage here