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Tickets, at last

January 28, 2009

So the saga of our advanced tickets has finally drawn to a close. The reason we could get tickets but not seats on the train we wanted was that the booking system had apparently broken down. I’m not sure I entirely believe that as I’m sure it gave me the option of seats on earlier trains.

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Sorry, no seats

January 23, 2009
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The saga continues. We’ve been trying to buy tickets to get to Darlington for Easter. Not difficult, you wouldn’t think. After all, it’s still months away, and the train operators like you to buy early. That’s why they give you a discount.
Well, after weeks of it looking like it was going to cost £200 to [...]

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Advanced savings?

January 9, 2009

We want some tickets to Darlington three months from today, so we marked the calendar to book them right now, the first day they went on sale. And you know what the price for just getting there is? ��199 for the two of us.

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Bye bye ticket clerk

January 2, 2009

On the day that rail prices have risen by an average of 6%, train operators look set to reap even higher revenues by confusing vulnerable passengers.

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