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Southern Advance Tickets - 90% off!! (available 10/07/09 only)
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Sun, 12 Jul 2009, Recliner remarked: My booking involves two very tight changes in each direction (eg, five minutes at Clapham Junction and Brighton) -- does anyone know the policy if I miss one of these because the incoming train was late? The tight changes were generated by the booking engine -- had I been selecting trains individually, I'd have allowed longer, especially at CJ. In theory they will let you catch a subsequent train. Having some sort of evidence from the late train's crew might help (although I'm not sure what you do if it's OPO). On my upcoming "round Britain" trip the booking engine has given me one change of five minutes and another of seven (and several others in the 15-20 minute range). At my on risk I've arranged one change of zero [staying on the same train while switching from one ticket to the next at York] and one change of an hour and twenty minutes [Glasgow]. When I did a similar trip a few years ago (on a Britrail pass) I missed a couple of connections that should have worked, and therefore got home two hours late (due to twice having to wait for the next hourly service). Of course, when travelling on Advance Purchase tickets I suppose one isn't allowed to "break" the journey (even if forced to do so by a late running train) so you'd be trapped on the station itself, short of blagging one's way out to use "station facilities" and then wander off into the town, like I did last time when stuck at Carlisle for 55 minutes. Trying to do a "sensitivity test", if I miss the 08.08 at Doncaster, my next chance to get to Edinburgh (with Natex) is 10.35 !! Argh!!! I wonder if they'd let me on an XC as far as York, to catch a better Natex from there? [But even if they did, I'd miss my Scotrail train to Glasgow by 2 minutes, so would they let me stay on board the Natex as far as Glasgow (where it is coincidentally headed), or insist I got off to find the subsequent Scotrail train (probably the only half-hourly one all day)?] -- Roland Perry |
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Southern Advance Tickets - 90% off!! (available 10/07/09 only)
"Roland Perry" wrote Trying to do a "sensitivity test", if I miss the 08.08 at Doncaster, my next chance to get to Edinburgh (with Natex) is 10.35 !! Argh!!! Can't you get the 0917 NXEC Doncaster to Newcastle, and change there for the 1059 NXEC to Edinburgh? Peter |
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Southern Advance Tickets - 90% off!! (available 10/07/09 only)
In message , at 16:08:07 on
Sun, 12 Jul 2009, Peter Masson remarked: Trying to do a "sensitivity test", if I miss the 08.08 at Doncaster, my next chance to get to Edinburgh (with Natex) is 10.35 !! Argh!!! Can't you get the 0917 NXEC Doncaster to Newcastle, and change there for the 1059 NXEC to Edinburgh? That would keep me with NXEC, although I'd be 1:20 late getting to Edinburgh, and just miss the 12.30 to Glasgow, leaving me an impossible 5 minute connection to get from Queen St to Central for my trip home (unless the lateness compensation kicks in there as well). -- Roland Perry |
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