FNRttC Friday Night Ride to the Coast York to Hull 19 April, 2013

[mmmmartin]

Sounds a good idea to me

 

[dellzeqq]

Adam B
Andrew Br
Andrew Bu
Andrew C
Andrew F
Cate R
Charles R
Charlie B
Chris B (Northern)
Christine H
Darrell W
Dave J
Dave L
Grahame D
Jane D
Jenny M
User10571 B
Kim W
Marcus C
Marjorie W
Mark L
Martin Br
Martin P
Martin T
Miranda S
Olaf S
Paul H
Paul H
Paul P
Peter W
Phil P
Rebecca O
Simon P
Sonia W
Stuart A
Sue T
Susie F
Tim D
Vernon L

 

[Flying Dodo]

the Southern website has a tick-box for bike reservations. Some other websites don't. I recommend Southern because I get possibly thirty or forty e-mails a year asking about bike reservations - and I can give the same answer every time. That's not a recommendation for the company, which is run by bike-hating loons (see also Olympic Bike Ban)

And another big plus for booking train tickets via the Southern Railways web site, is that they do a Money Back guarantee, whereby providing you haven't yet picked up your tickets, you can cancel them (obviously before the booked time/day), without any penalty, for any reason, and get a full refund, no matter what train operator they're actually for.

 

[User10571]

And another big plus for booking train tickets via the Southern Railways web site, is that they do a Money Back guarantee, whereby providing you haven't yet picked up your tickets, you can cancel them (obviously before the booked time/day), without any penalty, for any reason, and get a full refund, no matter what train operator they're actually for.

I always use Southern to book tix but I wish I'd known that - there have been numerous occasions I've taken the price of a cancelled trip on the chin.

 

[User10571]

Read carefully! There are exclusions.

Indeed there are.
The most significant of which is that the Money Back Guarantee applies to the plethora of ticket types availbale from only Southern.
The no quibble guarantee does not apply to tickets bought through Southern for use on other TOCs routes - So in my case I wouldn't receive a refund for my canned rail journey from Leicester , nor for my postponed trip up to Embra a couple of years ago.
As is always the case: The large print giveth and the small print taketh away. Or something.

 

[Moodyman]

I'm in - email sent DZ.

Could I join the mad group riding back to York from Hull?

 

[mcshroom]

You may indeed, although so far that group seems to consist of just me

 

[Paul H]

Not me, I'm on the 11:40, with bikespace.

I'm on the 9.40am back to Manchester with bike reservation.

It was a bit of a faff to sort after speaking to about 10 people at First Transpennine before I spoke to a lady who could help

 

[Flying Dodo]

Indeed there are.
The most significant of which is that the Money Back Guarantee applies to the plethora of ticket types availbale from only Southern.
The no quibble guarantee does not apply to tickets bought through Southern for use on other TOCs routes - So in my case I wouldn't receive a refund for my canned rail journey from Leicester , nor for my postponed trip up to Embra a couple of years ago.
As is always the case: The large print giveth and the small print taketh away. Or something.

Sorry - that's not quite the situation.

This offer is valid for tickets booked on southernrailway.com for any journey and for travel on any train operator, for the following ticket types:
Anytime
Anytime Day
Off-Peak
Off-Peak Day
Super Off-Peak Day
Southern Advance (Advance tickets for travel on Southern trains only)

I've successfully used this to cancel and get refunds on FCC and East Midlands trains.

 

[Davywalnuts]

*feels sick*..

Been mapping for the past couple of days, a route up to York and back from Hull with long Mart... comes in at about 540miles... Thats kinda nuts isn't it? Exactly how many kebabs will be consumed too in this process is scaring me and my belly.. needless to say, I'll be single speeding it too.. IF, I do it... bloody nora..

 

[wanda2010]

*flutters eyelashes* My hero



Definitely nuts!

 

[mmmmartin]

You may indeed, although so far that group seems to consist of just me

To be fair Marcus, he did say it was a "mad group". So he was half right. It wasn't a group.

 

[Davywalnuts]

Scrub that, its about 506miles.. That sounds much better!

 

[mmmmartin]

And another big plus for booking train tickets via the Southern Railways web site, is that they do a Money Back guarantee, whereby providing you haven't yet picked up your tickets, you can cancel them (obviously before the booked time/day), without any penalty, for any reason, and get a full refund, no matter what train operator they're actually for.

I did not know that. I wish I had done. Although, to be honest, I haven't lost money. But it is a very useful thing to know. Thanks adam.

 

[Moodyman]

You may indeed, although so far that group seems to consist of just me

Well I'm happy to be the Toto to your Lone Ranger.