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Don't forget "Scotland's poshest train" the Royal Scotsman which comes to Kyle once or twice per week from early April until October. GBRF 66 in charge, 66743 or 66746 in Royal Scotsman livery. It's in Kyle tonight and will head back to Aviemore tomorrow morning. 1745700155 Hopefully GS250 is...

I have done it a few times myself - the missus (mobility impaired) coming north on a Transpennine and me needing to help her off at EDB. Those extra few minutes through Princes Street Gardens are very useful for locating her/luggage/inevitable shopping etc....

Just to update tis thread, thanks again for all the advice which has helped me to obtain a full refund from ScotRail for the tickets which they (or more likely Trainline acting on their behalf) claimed couldn't be changed. But as a warning to anyone else - keep at them as it took me three...

Thanks to you and to everyone else who has replied with some really useful information that backs up what I thought was the case. Armed with all your advice, I will fire off an email complaint to ScotRail asking them to look at the case and hopefully refund the unused tickets that they told me...

Hi, I hope someone on here can help with a query I have regarding split ticketing. My partner and I travel a lot by train and I thought I knew my way around the ticketing maze, until now! My partner needed to travel from Inverness to Kings Cross on the LNER “Highland Chieftain” and when I came...

One hundred percent agree! Up here in the Scottish Highlands, every time there's a problem on the highland main line ScotRail announce that "ticket acceptance is in place on Citylink between Inverness and Glasgow/Edinburgh". Has anyone from ScotRail ever tried boarding a Citylink at Inverness...

For those up here in the Highlands, The Mallard on the northbound platform at Dingwall is worth a visit. There's also a bar on the concourse at Inverness (can't remember the name) as a quick visit to Costa is usually all I have time for!

Yes but that's better than the old system where the driver was responsible for moving the PIS on if the request stops weren't needed so you could arrive at Achnasheen to be told you were at Lochluichart, two stops back! The conductor on my train out of Kyle was excellent today, going through the...

I really hope you never suffer an injury that requires you to spend the rest of your life needing a crutch to assist you with walking. If you ever do, you will realise just how glib that statement sounds! My partner is 74, is in the situation described above and has family down south who she...

Thanks Yorkie, so it isn't just me going mad then! Seems totally crazy and actually quite unfair - I'm thinking elderly couple who wouldn't want the hassle of changing trains, let alone going via London, and almost certainly wouldn't understand the concept of splitting the journey. They'd...

Cheers for that - as you say, quite astonishing and I'll look at it for my next trip south. Agreed - last time I flew Glasgow-Exeter the Q400 had conked out so they gave us an Embraer off the Birmingham route - 40 minutes early into Exeter and comfortable too!

Sorry, maybe I didn't make myself clear. If I look up Edinburgh to Plymouth on the Cross Country journey planner, it offers an advance ticket using the 0652 Virgin service down the west coast to Birmingham New Street, changing there onto the Cross Country service that left Edinburgh at 0608 and...

I have flown Edinburgh to Exeter a few times but most flights now go via the "hub" in Manchester so it's a lot of messing around at three airports each way, a bus or taxi from Exeter airport to the station etc, plus Flybe's less than luxurious legroom on a Q400! I was also just curious about...

Yes I can, it's £6.20! Very bizarre...

Anyone know why this anomaly exists in Cross Country's advance fares? I need to travel from Edinburgh to Plymouth in early December (midweek) and would like to use one of the direct Cross Country services (the 6am HST to avoid eight hours on a Voyager!). So I can get some work done, I intend...