 First TPE Advance tickets
On 15 Jul, 13:12, Nodding Donkey <floridsalo...@m> wrote:
> On 15 Jul, 13:02, collybs <pe...@collybs.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Advanced Tickets are available on TPE from Liverpool to Newcastle
>
> > I have just tried on 23 September - the following are available
> > depart at 0618 or 0822 - £22.
> > Why they are not available on other trains is either because they have
> > sold out or that the sevices are so popular they do not need to sell
> > ap tickets.
>
> > Peter
>
> Just noticed they are available at the same time on the date I want to
> travel (The 0618 is the only through train of the day BTW). Can't find
> any advance tickets for the return leg, which negates any advantage
> over a Saver. Also, this is a leisure trip so don't really want an
> early start.
>
> My problem is in the middle of the day I could buy an advance ticket
> Liverpool - York, and then one on a York-Newcastle connection (whether
> first TPE, NXEC or XC) - thus AP spaces are available, but the
> Trainline won't connect them. Its up to me to look separately.
Presumably the problem is that the legs don't match up, i.e. there
will always be a faster connection from York northwards which doesn't
have a quota for TPE advance tickets.
Liverpool TPE trains generally go to Scarborough
Newcastle TPE trains generally come from Manchester Airport
Between the arrival of the Scarborough train at York and the departure
of the slower TPE train to Newcastle, there is often an XC or NXEC
train which messes the through reservations up.
Using "via Thirsk" might get you a through TPE journey - it certainly
gets me the 1422 on 12 August (the date tried earlier in the thread).
"via Dewsbury" gets me the 1022, 1222, 1422, 1622, 1822 at varying
prices and return journeys each hour.
One of the other tricks is searching by "arrive by" instead of "leave
after" as it often causes a different changing station.
From previous threads, we have never got to to bottom of which quotas
a train needs to accept other operators AP tickets (despite
"simplification"). I notice that Southern's introduction of advance
tickets continues to cause problems with through booking of AP
tickets.
Hope that helps
Jonathan |