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    Scotrail Club 50 £17 tickets

    I've tried everything I can think of - except actually buying a Club 50 membership - and cannot get Scotrail to offer me a £17 fare (Stow-Inverurie) on 19th March, back on 20th which is apparently the last day of the offer. Do I have to have the membership card and log in?-
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    Rail tickets to Hawick/Selkirk

    These exist for many places south of Carlisle on brfares.com, those to Manchester Airport valid on Transpennine only. Transpennine accept both towns as legitimate stations but don't offer any fares. NRE and RUK's booking engine don't recognise the town names. I think - I'm no expert - Hawick is...
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    Thameslink - how naive can I be?

    There was a broken rail just south of St Pancras on the northbound line today. It had the effect that trains had to cross it at 5 mph, according to our driver. As a knock-on effect, half the trains were cancelled for hours and hours, including the entire service between Rainham and Blackfriars...
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    GWR advance fares oddity

    I practically never bother with advance fares so what I'm about to describe may be normal. I needed to travel from Taunton to London and back during the peak periods in late March. NRE offered advance tickets at £22 each way with a senior railcard. I clicked through to the GWR site to purchase...
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    National Rail Enquiries - "Other Valid Routes"

    NRE offer to show on a map all the routes that are valid for the journey you are planning. When I first noticed it a couple of years ago, it showed my a Bing map of an unlabelled town in Lancashire. Discovering it again today, I find it does the same, with no routes shown (Redhill-Deal was my...
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    Moorgate question

    There must be a very simple reason why the line to Moorgate was not extended to London Bridge and beyond instead of building Thameslink. Or instead of building the new line from St Pancras towards Finsbury Park. I can't find anything with 10 minutes of Google, so I've not really tried hard. I...
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    Redhill to Pewsey

    I want to run along the Kennet and Avon canal from Hungerford to Pewsey I'd normally get a CDR from Redhill to Pewsey and get off at Hungerford on the outward journey. However, there are no trains from Hungerford to Pewsey on days/times that I've looked. So question 1 - is it permitted to...
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    Redhill to Inverurie, super saver single, senior railcard

    According to BRFARES http://www.brfares.com/#!fares?orig=RDH&dest=INR&rlc=SRN there is a single fare for £58.20 but the best I can find on Virgin or LNER is £115-odd. Is it possible to buy this ticket or does the fare exist for industry-internal purposes? I want to travel on 12/10, spend a...
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    Redhill-Garforth (London-Leeds) via MML

    I always understood that using the MML to get to Leeds was not permitted except on through trains. Checking it, it looks to me as if map SY (South Yorkshire local routes) is allowed and covers the entire route from Leeds to St Pancras. If I look on the online journey planner, northbound...

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