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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 1, 2020 15:00:46 GMT
Will you be venturing to Manchester to see Zorro at Hope Mill ? I'm combining it with Back To The Future in a couple of weeks.
No, I won't be. I've never been to Manchester, partly because it looks like it'd be horrible to get to, over 3 and a half hours each way. There isn't anyone in the cast I particularly want to see & the publicity about an immersive production doesn't appeal in the slightest. I've never been to any immersive theatre as the thought of it scares me!
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 1, 2020 15:05:53 GMT
Will you be venturing to Manchester to see Zorro at Hope Mill ? I'm combining it with Back To The Future in a couple of weeks.
No, I won't be. I've never been to Manchester, partly because it looks like it'd be horrible to get to, over 3 and a half hours each way. There isn't anyone in the cast I particularly want to see & the publicity about an immersive production doesn't appeal in the slightest. I've never been to any immersive theatre as the thought of it scares me!
I’ll be taking one for the team Dawnstar 😝 |
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 1, 2020 15:14:48 GMT
BurlyBeaR I'm sure you can bear down on them if they try on anything you don't like!
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Post by jampot on Mar 15, 2020 23:39:25 GMT
With theate events likely to be cancelled I have pre booked £9 single train tickets from now to mid May to Waterloo with south west rail x about 28 ..it looks to me there is a £10 admin charge per ticket to claim a refund ...Or am I getting something wrong?
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Post by talkingheads on Mar 15, 2020 23:56:17 GMT
With theate events likely to be cancelled I have pre booked £9 single train tickets from now to mid May to Waterloo with south west rail x about 28 ..it looks to me there is a £10 admin charge per ticket to claim a refund ...Or am I getting something wrong? If they are advance fare tickets they are non refundable, which is astonishingly greedy in the current climate but, for SouthWesternRailway at least, that's how it is. |
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Post by lou105 on Mar 16, 2020 7:13:22 GMT
LNER are offering refunds and waiving the admin fee.
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Post by TallPaul on Mar 16, 2020 13:40:47 GMT
LNER are offering refunds and waiving the admin fee. As are Northern from today, so credit where it's due (though they are now a sister company to LNER). |
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Post by lou105 on Mar 20, 2020 11:41:20 GMT
LNER are offering refunds and waiving the admin fee. Quoting myself here but it seems LNER's offer is a rebooking free of fees, or a refund as credit for advance tickets. I think it's only open tickets that would get a full refund. |
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Post by fossil on Mar 21, 2020 11:57:26 GMT
If you have an advance ticket it is worth checking if your booked train will actually run as the train companies are operating reduced timetables from next week. The National Conditions of Travel seem to indicate you can get a full refund if the train does not run:
30. YOUR RIGHT TO A REFUND IF YOUR TRAIN IS DISRUPTED AND YOU CHOOSE NOT TO
TRAVEL
30.1. If the train you intended to use is cancelled, delayed, or your reservation
will not be honoured, and you decide not to travel, you may return the unused
Ticket to the original retailer or Train Company from whom it was purchased,
where you will be given a full refund with no administration fee being charged.
This Condition applies to all Tickets, including Tickets (such as Advance Tickets)
that are otherwise non-refundable, and also applies if you have begun your
journey but are unable to complete it due to delay or cancellations and return to
your point of origin.
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30.2. When applying for a refund under this Condition you will need to state the
date, time and station where you would otherwise have started your journey
from. You must write to the Train Company to notify them of your claim within
28 days of the date that you intended to travel.
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Post by fossil on Mar 23, 2020 19:46:28 GMT
Just had an email from National Rail Enquiries as I am on their mailing list. Looks like those Advance tickets we bought for our cancelled theatre trips can now be refunded.
"On Friday we announced that there will be reduced train services from Monday 23 March.
It is recommended not to travel unless it’s essential. Today, train companies have updated their refund policies for train tickets by offering fee-free refunds on all national ticket types, bought before 0700 Monday 23 March.
There will be no refund fee applied to Off-Peak, Super Off-Peak, Anytime and even Advance tickets, which are usually non-refundable. For Advance tickets, please apply before the departure of the first reserved train printed on the ticket. For more information on the updated refund policies please visit National Rail.
To request a refund, please contact the train company or retailer that sold your original ticket. "
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Post by TallPaul on Jun 20, 2020 13:15:19 GMT
Remember when we used to moan about endless engineering work on the ECML, and King's Cross being closed for an entire weekend?
How I wish we could still moan!
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Post by lynette on Jun 20, 2020 16:51:48 GMT
Car parks. Invest in car parks. Back to the good old days when you could and did drive into the West End, found a parking spot or used a car park. Car sharing and charabancs will return, all needing car parks.
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Post by TallPaul on Jun 20, 2020 17:05:10 GMT
And what have they done instead, lynette? From Monday, the Congestion Charge is not only increased, but applies until 10pm, seven days a week. It's supposed to be only a temporary measure, but as you'll recall, they said that about income tax! |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2020 18:01:02 GMT
From Monday, the Congestion Charge is not only increased, but applies until 10pm, seven days a week. Given how rapacious they are I'm surprised the Mayor of London and the councils haven't simply decided to become highwaymen. Some of the things they're doing are borderline illegal anyway, so why not just drop the pretence? |
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Post by lynette on Jun 20, 2020 18:49:08 GMT
The increase in congestion charge is very mean spirited. Not just for entertainment but for people visiting hospitals and other important stuff. They have to drive in. Have you tried taking a wheelchair on the tube? Or even a buggy. No need to amplify the point. I sometimes think the Mayor is on a different planet and in thrall to some power we don’t know about.
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Post by lichtie on Jun 20, 2020 19:44:22 GMT
They were told to bring back the congestion charge (and increase it) by the government in exchange for the TfL bail out. That's almost certainly just a dumb political bid to improve the Tories chances in the next mayoral elections, by trying to pin the blame on Khan. And since London is still nowhere near getting air pollution down to a legal level, there won't suddenly be an explosion of new car parks in the centre. Or any other big city. Eventually public transport has to go back to normal regardless, just like all the other parts of the economy the goverment would like to fully reopen now.
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Post by TallPaul on Jun 22, 2020 9:32:57 GMT
There was a comprehensive interview with Sadiq Khan in yesterday's Sunday Times. I knew the reintroduction of the Congestion Charge was all part of the TfL bailout, which is why I deliberately used the word 'they', but it was a negotiation and, despite being a lawyer by trade, Khan blinked.
No economy has ever been stimulated by imposing extra taxes!
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 22, 2021 16:55:15 GMT
Just leaving this here
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Post by TallPaul on Apr 23, 2021 14:23:09 GMT
I'm sure NR and its contractors are doing other things too, but this is one of the reasons, perhaps the main one, for the current possession.
There's something about eras coming to an end that makes me emotional.
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Post by marob on Jun 19, 2021 14:54:42 GMT
What’s going on with the trains at the moment? I booked a few nights away in London in August, just went to look at the train tickets and they all say sold out 😱
Are they stopping people getting on if not prebooked?
I can book each individual stage as a single, but before the pandemic I was told that if one of those trains is late you’re not necessarily entitled to travel on the next one. If it’s booked as one journey you’re covered, if it’s split you’re not. Is that right? Does it depend on the type of ticket? (I think I might have bought those tickets in one of those sales Virgin used to do.)
Loads of availability the day before, of course, so I could stick an extra night on the beginning, but that adds a lot more expense.
Would more seats be available if the final stage of unlocking happens? I’m guessing that’s not likely since they seem to increasingly be referring to a third wave. The way things are going I’m starting to wonder if there’ll be some sort of restriction stopping me going at all by then. ☹️
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jun 19, 2021 14:59:21 GMT
If you book a split ticket on the Trainline app don’t you stay on the same train for the entire journey?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2021 15:02:25 GMT
What’s going on with the trains at the moment? I booked a few nights away in London in August, just went to look at the train tickets and they all say sold out 😱 Are they stopping people getting on if not prebooked? I can book each individual stage as a single, but before the pandemic I was told that if one of those trains is late you’re not necessarily entitled to travel on the next one. If it’s booked as one journey you’re covered, if it’s split you’re not. Is that right? Does it depend on the type of ticket? (I think I might have bought those tickets in one of those sales Virgin used to do.) Loads of availability the day before, of course, so I could stick an extra night on the beginning, but that adds a lot more expense. Would more seats be available if the final stage of unlocking happens? I’m guessing that’s not likely since they seem to increasingly be referring to a third wave. The way things are going I’m starting to wonder if there’ll be some sort of restriction stopping me going at all by then. ☹️ Have you tried looking up the journey on Trainline? I had the same issue trying to book a train to Nottingham - tickets appearing as "sold out", but Trainline said that the timetable just hadn't been confirmed yet. I tried again a week or so later and I was able to prebook my seat. |
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Post by marob on Jun 19, 2021 15:16:45 GMT
BurlyBeaR @mrmonotony I haven’t used the Trainline before. Was looking on Transport for Wales’ website. TfW showing the outbound journey as sold out, but Trainline has the timetable not confirmed message. But if the timetable’s not finalised I don’t understand why both websites will let me book the return leg of the journey. 😵💫
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Post by TallPaul on Jun 19, 2021 15:19:49 GMT
If you book a split ticket on the Trainline app don’t you stay on the same train for the entire journey? Normally, yes, but there are split tickets, split tickets and split tickets. I think marob was referring to the latter. LNER charge just 50p extra to travel on a local service, Grand Central charge £4, so with one I book a 'through' ticket, and with the other I make my own arrangements. |
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