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What is the problem we're trying to solve here? I think many of my fellow Mancunians and I are perfectly capable of seeing a destination and knowing where it goes. Whereas trying to teach regulars and visitors to the city a series of interchangeable route numbers seems rather optimistic and...

When using these tickets, when I have had a delay of over 2 hours, Northern have issued 2x complimentary return tickets.

Avanti staff have made my return advance flexible under similar circumstances in the past. Delays from Preston to London, meant I had to rearrange meetings. At Euston, the ticket office sorted it to catch any train back, when I originally had an advance on the 15:30.

An acceptable definition in that case!

I just checked my account and my first claim via the current system was in May 2018. Depends on your definition of 'recent'

We've even got them not far from Bolton, up in parts of Lancashire including Blackburn. Lancashire County Council were reviewing rolling them out further in areas under their control, at the end of last year.

On the point about ASLEF being the ones creating this day, that is how 99% of the various days that get press coverage are created. They come via trade groups, companies or organisations, so ASLEF are doing nothing out of kilter in terms of creating such a day. Will leave the rest of the...

I stand corrected if there has been a change in policy since last September when I queried my lack of credits on a few tickets. At the time the qualification policy was worded slightly differently, (which I've just validated via Wayback Machine) but didn't flag journeys including other...

It has to be a full journey with no other connections with another operator. I fell foul of that one previously, where an Avanti purchased ticket including a one stop connection on Northern meant it wasn't qualifying.

If your SF booking is on a LNER service, they say the following in the help centre: "If you win an upgrade on LNER and your trip is delayed or cancelled you may still be able to use your upgrade. Our agreement with LNER is that if the LNER train on which you have purchased an upgrade is...

It seems to be a reallocation where nobody is winning in the short term. Leeds going from 4 to 3, some electrics on the west becoming 2 car DMUs and some Blackpool to Manchester services going from 6 to 4 or 3.

I've had a look on Wayback Machine. It only took one archive of the Avanti site, but it was around lunchtime, (12:42pm) although it does clearly have a warning on the page to not travel. The social team only returned after the Christmas break on the 27th, so they were slow responding to customer...

As others have said, I can't see anything happening in regards to this. It is also a good thread in that it shows that even experienced travellers make mistakes and on another day, action would have been taken by a TOC that ends up in at least a financial penalty.

Walked through similar protests with no problems at all. All the ones I’ve seen have been noisy, but not aggressive or threatening. Hopefully nobody has crossed the line or done anything illegal at the protest at Bradford. From the description, flag waving and handing out leaflets are not...

Did Northern provide alternative transport? If they did, is there any reason why you didn't take it? That is their normal policy, so they are being consistent. Basically their view is that if their transport delays you, delay repay is payable. However if you choose to make your own way there...