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I've seen Glasgow to Inverness before.
Certainly won't win on distance, but when the last Manchester-Liverpool trains (either route) are bus replacements, the journey times are not pretty!
As an aside, longest taxi run people have had/know of? I know a forum member who had one from Edinburgh...
I was caught up in this big time. By all accounts the fire went from being a bit of smoke to a full block of the railway in about 10 minutes. A colleague ended up giving me a lift home as I was going to somewhere left completely unserved.
I understand passengers on 1S81 stranded for 3 hours...
Yet another benefit of keeping staffed ticket offices! And a case of the railway evolving as technology evolves too.
Must admit personally I've never seen the benefit of ticket offices being able to provide e tickets, I'd have thought surely unless paying cash, if you want one of those you'd...
I would have gladly offered to use an earlier train, and, indeed would very much have preferred to have done so. Only booked that train as that was the first one with passholder availability that I could actually make.
I'm tempted to frame it for how farcical it all was! :D
The thing that riled me up the most was the fact that the first I heard there was a problem was when my boarding pass wouldn't scan at the ticket gates. I'd been in London since 06:20 killing time. I'd have tried to travel earlier if...
I booked the reservation through RailEurope, just to add another potential spanner into the works. I've got a boarding pass with "13:31 tip up" scrawled on it, and the HOTNAT the Train Manager gave me to ensure I wouldn't have to pay for a new reservation on SNCF.
I've been doing some research online and seem to be getting mixed answers. So I thought I'd ask here on the off chance anyone else has been unfortunate enough to have the same issue.
I was denied boarding by Eurostar yesterday at St. Pancras as they were running a shorter train than scheduled...
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