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    Longest distance rail replacement bus services.

    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...
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    Eurostar delayed - no seats reservation for connecting train

    That's standard paperwork in the event of Eurostar delays, they should be well used to seeing it
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    Urgent TOPS Requests

    Does anyone know if 710105 is out today please?
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    Northern Rail Liverpool to Manchester via the CLC around 2019

    IIRC 195s started on the ex TPE routes, Barrow, Windermere and Liverpool. It's what was going to become Northern Connect.
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    ScotRail alcohol ban quietly relaxed

    Strongbow I think? I've seen it too and again I'm not 100% certain
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    ScotRail alcohol ban quietly relaxed

    Must have imagined having a pint at Wemyss Bay station a few months back then!:D
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    Oxford Road Station Shut Due To Fire Nearby 23/06/2025

    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...
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    Interrail Global Pass Query

    I've just finished with a 15 day Interrrail. My inbound day was day 13, my outbound was day 14. No issues at all.
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    Bought an e-ticket at the ticket office!

    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...
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    Denied boarding by Eurostar

    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.
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    Denied boarding by Eurostar

    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...
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    Denied boarding by Eurostar

    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.
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    Denied boarding by Eurostar

    I'll be pushing for a full refund of the reservation fee given it effectively wasn't honoured and I was dumped in a vestibule.
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    Denied boarding by Eurostar

    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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    LNER Flex ticket

    Isn't that in the context of Seatfrog's train swap, as opposed to the LNER flex tickets being valid on multiple trains?

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