Avanti Trains (match day travel from the South East)

Northerndave said:
Maybe re read this line.....

Park up right next to the Station in a Secure Car Park for less than £17 (and that's Fri - Monday)

If you think a train to London is £17 you must be accessing the internet from 1954 !

Train prices change all the time, but are at least 50% cheaper than the robdogs charge at Avanti.
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Internet in 1954 interesting
Anyway I have booked trains with my son on a 2together railcard on advanced tickets long trips for less than 20 each so it was not obvious
 
Was anyone on the 13:50 from Milton Keynes yesterday, train got diverted, due to another train blooking the line between Stoke and Macc, it was about 30 minutes late into Piccadilly as a result, so I've tried to claim a refund.

There is supposed to be an "automatic delay repay" option, but you have to sign up for it before hand, just in case you are sitting waiting for a refund to drop for you, it won't. Enjoy the process, but make sure you have a screen shot of your receipt first, and about 60 spare minutes !
 
Northerndave said:
Maybe re read this line.....

Park up right next to the Station in a Secure Car Park for less than £17 (and that's Fri - Monday)

If you think a train to London is £17 you must be accessing the internet from 1954 !

Train prices change all the time, but are at least 50% cheaper than the robdogs charge at Avanti.
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Virgin trains advance fare to London was £16.50 just before they lost the Franchise. If Avanti was playing it fair Manchester to Euston would be just under £20.
 
berryblue said:
If Avanti was playing it fair Manchester to Euston would be just under £20.
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That's probably a bit unfair as virgin never had a covid pandemic to deal with, whilst avanti have, and for probably 6 months they were still running trains, yet getting very little income, but still paying their staff (or some of them at least), so they're currently ripping us off to recoup those losses.

It's not great, but in business it's kind of understandable.

My train back today was full, I'd never seen that in the afternoon midweek pre pandemic (virgin and early avanti), though there were a lot of french people on board.
 
cleavers said:
That's probably a bit unfair as virgin never had a covid pandemic to deal with, whilst avanti have, and for probably 6 months they were still running trains, yet getting very little income, but still paying their staff (or some of them at least), so they're currently ripping us off to recoup those losses.

It's not great, but in business it's kind of understandable.

My train back today was full, I'd never seen that in the afternoon midweek pre pandemic (virgin and early avanti), though there were a lot of french people on board.
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It's full because they are not running a full service. It will be a long time before advance passengers like myself will forgive them for there present actions. As for the Covid excuse, LNER & LNWR have not gone down that policy.
 
berryblue said:
It's full because they are not running a full service.
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I know, and I totally agree, they're still taking every advantage to milk their customers, but they need to make the money back that they lost due to covid and nobody using their trains, it is simple economics, they hadn't long had the franchise, and then lost pretty much all income from it.

berryblue said:
It will be a long time before advance passengers like myself will forgive them for there present actions.
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I'm not using them this weekend, even though the cost is similar for a longer journey.

Hopefully they will get better in time, as I can't be bothered with driving up, and that is still the best route for me, so I'll just use it less this season.
 
cleavers said:
I know, and I totally agree, they're still taking every advantage to milk their customers, but they need to make the money back that they lost due to covid and nobody using their trains, it is simple economics, they hadn't long had the franchise, and then lost pretty much all income from it.


I'm not using them this weekend, even though the cost is similar for a longer journey.

Hopefully they will get better in time, as I can't be bothered with driving up, and that is still the best route for me, so I'll just use it less this season.
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I’m hoping to use them on Sunday but the journey from Euston is scheduled to take nearly four hours, any additional delays will make arriving by kick-off touch and go.
 
The 8.21 from Euston was cancelled due to staff shortages
The 9.21 is delayed between Milton Keynes and Stafford due to a tree on the line… so no one is getting there on time from Euston today
 
Chris Holmes said:
The 8.21 from Euston was cancelled due to staff shortages
The 9.21 is delayed between Milton Keynes and Stafford due to a tree on the line… so no one is getting there on time from Euston today
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Chris Holmes said:
The 8.21 from Euston was cancelled due to staff shortages
The 9.21 is delayed between Milton Keynes and Stafford due to a tree on the line… so no one is getting there on time from Euston today
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Caught the 8.17 to Glasgow, changed at Crewe for a local train which is delayed outside Styal. Train full of West Ham fans so expect a small turnout in their end, unless this train gets moving..
This is rivalling my Flight 12 to Porto for one mishap after another. At least that was after the game!
 
seafordblue said:
Caught the 8.17 to Glasgow, changed at Crewe for a local train which is delayed outside Styal. Train full of West Ham fans so expect a small turnout in their end, unless this train gets moving..
This is rivalling my Flight 12 to Porto for one mishap after another. At least that was after the game!
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Flight 12 aah the memories anyway at leat your not housebound with Covid like me and listening on radio
 
Missed the game today. Train from Sheffield to Mcr was that packed when it got to Romiley we couldn’t get on . 1 train a hour , previous train had been cancelled, 12-15 was 15mins late and only had 2 carriages. Northern Rail are a embarrassment
 
Staying at Stockport Travelodge.Saw the Manchester bus outside Travelodge so got on that instead of train.
Great decision inside ground 20 mins before kick off.
Same bus for return journey.If staying at Stockport bus from now on.
 
I was given 2 free first class ticket discount codes in October to be used within 1 year
It was over a minor dispute i had with avanti
Iv just tried to buy two return tickets for Manc -Euston for the arsenal away game on new years day
and the codes are " invalid " ,Iv tried 3 times and they wont work,grrrrrrrrr.
 
blue44 said:
I was given 2 free first class ticket discount codes in October to be used within 1 year
It was over a minor dispute i had with avanti
Iv just tried to buy two return tickets for Manc -Euston for the arsenal away game on new years day
and the codes are " invalid " ,Iv tried 3 times and they wont work,
blue44 said:
I was given 2 free first class ticket discount codes in October to be used within 1 year
It was over a minor dispute i had with avanti
Iv just tried to buy two return tickets for Manc -Euston for the arsenal away game on new years day
and the codes are " invalid " ,Iv tried 3 times and they wont work,grrrrrrrrr.
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blue44 said:
I was given 2 free first class ticket discount codes in October to be used within 1 year
It was over a minor dispute i had with avanti
Iv just tried to buy two return tickets for Manc -Euston for the arsenal away game on new years day
and the codes are " invalid " ,Iv tried 3 times and they wont work,grrrrrrrrr.
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Are you sure the trains are running,the reason I say this is because they do alot of track works over the Xmas period....this may be a reason it won't let you put the codes in as maybe no trains....just a thought...
 
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