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Trying to book tickets with LNER/TPE/Northern for Friday 17th March

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The issue seems to be with the TPE trains; as they connect well with the train to Shildon the journey planner only shows itineraries including them, not earlier trains (XC, LNER) with a longer connection nor later trains that miss a connection.

As TPE have horrendous levels of cancellations you're better off booking LNER to Darlington (£9 ish without a railcard if bought in advance) then the last bit separately. Alternatively head over to trainsplit.com and under advanced options choose to exclude Transpennine Express; there are probably some LNER & Connections advances available at not much more than the York - Darlington fare.

(The 17th is inbetween two strike dates and TPE aren't apparently confident yet they can run the trains in the timetable, so no reservations released/available for them).
 
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Islineclear3_1 said:
I was hoping to travel from York to Darlington, and then to Shildon on Friday 17th March. This isn't a strike day. I am struggling to find tickets until after 5pm !? Can anyone help please?
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It appears that only (some) LNER trains are available for booking at present, so you'll need to play around with connection times at Darlington to get them to show up for a through journey.
 
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