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    Changing Advance tickets (and is the admin fee payable per ticket?)

    Looking for a bit of advice please. Got Advance tickets to travel from Manchester to London with Avanti on Friday, but probably now need to travel Thursday. These tickets were booked through the LNER website not with Avanti. How do I go about changing these tickets? Is it even possible on...
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    Railcard expiry query

    We have a two together railcard. This expires on 31st July and we have advances booked for Manchester to London on 29th, returning on the 30th. Now, we know 29th is an RMT strike day, so more than likely we’ll look to travel on 28th (this pre-supposes ASLEF don’t call a strike that day, which...
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    London to Manchester 06/11

    Apologies if this is the wrong forum (mods please move as necessary) Need to make a journey at short notice tomorrow. Booking sites show the last direct Euston - Piccadilly at 15.01 I know that the Off-Peak return is valid via Reading. This allows journey possibilities leaving Paddington at...
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    Delay Repay - how long to wait?

    On Sunday September 11th we travelled from Kings X to Rochdale via Leeds. There were signalling issues in the Peterborough area for a large part of the day leading to numerous cancellations and severe delays. Our 1803 service from Kings X left at 1924 and arrived into Leeds 90 late. We were...
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    Delay Repay - hypothetical question

    Purely hypothetical question because my delay repay claim has already been settled. On October 4th our journey from Manchester Piccadilly to Southampton Central was disrupted due to a fatality between Leamington Spa and Banbury. No fault of CrossCountry of course, however it resulted in a 2...
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    Digital Railcard query

    I’ve just renewed our Two Together Railcard and having always held a physical card for a number of years, have decided this time to opt for the digital version to take advantage of the Trainline offer at £20. I’ve seen negative comments on here about having to display in the app, with potential...
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    Manchester Stations validity

    A quick question regarding validity. I have the Advance ticket shown in the photo below. It is issued from Manchester Stations, but the reservation is from Piccadilly. Am I right in thinking that boarding at Oxford Road would in this case be prohibited? Thanks in advance.
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    Two Together Railcard discount not applied

    Just bought two Advances for Manchester to London on June 3rd departing at 7.15 direct from Avanti. At the planning stage I applied the Two Together Railcard and went through with the purchase (at 53.40) but afterwards discovered that the Railcard discount had not been applied. I re-checked to...
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    Advance ticket for service no longer scheduled to run

    Looking for a bit of advice please. We hold advance tickets between Nottingham and Manchester for next Friday August 6th. Depart Nottingham 19.37, arrive Manchester Piccadilly 21.35. These tickets were purchased through Red Spotted Hanky on May 15th. Checking the schedule, I cannot see this...
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    Manchester to Cornwall in July

    Looking for Manchester to St Ives departing 8th July, returning on 16th. Will be two adults with a Two Together Railcard. There doesn’t seem to be any fares available with the XC, which appears to be because the timetable is unconfirmed? Does anyone know when or indeed if it is likely that...
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    Portsmouth to Manchester routing

    My daughter is currently en-route between Portsmouth to Manchester using the Outward portion of an Off-Peak return (route via London), arriving into Waterloo shortly. She has a seat reserved on the 1420 out of Euston, but clearly she could use a train before then if possible. Two questions:-...
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    Advance tickets for the Night Riviera

    Can anyone give an indication when GWR will likely release tickets for June? They have been selling tickets up to the timetable change in mid-May since at least November, but they haven’t gone into June with sales yet. I realise that this is likely due to having the new timetable not yet...
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    Missing connection with Eurostar

    Posting on behalf of a colleague. He is due to travel on Eurostar this Friday evening from St Pancras to Bourg-Saint-Maurice, however due to industrial action in France, his departure has been brought forward by some seven hours. He was connecting into this train with a separate [non-CIV]...
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    Manchester to Edinburgh price anomaly

    Looking to travel from Manchester to Edinburgh on Saturday January 11th. Piccadilly dep 10.47 arriving Edinburgh 14.17 changing at Preston. Advance tickets with a Two Together Railcard. Avanti will sell me these tickets for £33.00 but TPE want £34.30 for the identical ticket. I’m not...
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    Cancellation at Lime St

    Looking for a bit of advice here please. Yesterday I was intending to take the 2331 (2A99) Liverpool Lime St to Manchester Victoria. Two reasons why I’d selected this service, firstly it gave a good onwards tram connection to my final destination and secondly it offered the insurance of having...
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    Delay Repay when departure time brought forward

    Just a theoretical scenario this and posting simply out of interest. My daughter travelled today from Manchester Piccadilly to Bristol Temple Meads. Matters were complicated by two issues, firstly no through trains on this route at the moment and secondly the Northern DOO strike. She...
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    Advance tickets when train departs ahead of schedule

    On Tuesday I travelled on the 19.24 XC service from Liskeard towards Penzance, which departed 8 early at 19.16. Now I was travelling on an Off-Peak Day Return so it didn't affect me , but I got thinking, what would the situation be if forced to attempt travel on the next GWR service on an...
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    Delay Repay - split ticket query

    My daughter travelled last evening between Manchester Piccadilly and Bristol Temple Meads. She was supposed to be using a through train 1V67 (at 18.05) with a ticket split at Stoke-on-Trent. 1V67 was cancelled between Piccadilly and New St, so she was forced to use 1O30 (at 18.27) to...
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    Gatwick Airport to Manchester

    Will be travelling from Gatwick to Manchester on Tuesday 27th September. Lots of "Advance" options for 3 adults (with Railcards) at £50.55 from 10.00 am onwards. But ideally we would wish to get an afternoon train from Euston at about 3pm, (having left Gatwick at 10.00 am). I presume this...
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    Is Delay Repay due in this case?

    My daughter travelled yesterday from York to Oxford using the return portion of an off-peak return, and because of engineering the usual direct Cross-Country service was not available. She travelled instead via Kings Cross and Paddington, with a reservation on the 21.42 service from...

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