London Midland Trains

[P419 EJW]

£29.00 is the off-peak return
£38.10 is the anytime return

no increase there

Ohh, I see, thanks! I used to book the 07:15-09:26 WVH-HUD and it used to be for £29 return. :/

[Tony]

Ohh, I see, thanks! I used to book the 07:15-09:26 WVH-HUD and it used to be for £29 return. :/

If you can get to Rugeley Trent Valley you can have
£16.25 anytime return to Manchester
£12.70 anytime return Manchester to Huddersfield

which is £10 cheaper than the anytime ticket from Wolverhampton

[Sh4318]

Ohh, I see, thanks! I used to book the 07:15-09:26 WVH-HUD and it used to be for £29 return. :/

Wouldn't split ticketing be cheaper?

[mikestone]

Following a failure at Runcorn this morning journey check is showing the 19.36 Bham-Liverpool 2 cars vice 4, presumably a cl.170.

[P419 EJW]

If you can get to Rugeley Trent Valley you can have
£16.25 anytime return to Manchester
£12.70 anytime return Manchester to Huddersfield

which is £10 cheaper than the anytime ticket from Wolverhampton

Thanks for the tip. :)

Wouldn't split ticketing be cheaper?

I have tried it on SplitTicketing (Official Site) and it's the same prices unfortunately.

[Tony]

Wouldn't split ticketing be cheaper?

Don't automatically presume split tickets are cheaper. In general splitting your ticket only saves money if

a) you split journies down into portions of 50 miles or less, so you can use day tickets instead of monthly ones
b) you split where the journey changes from peak to off-peak, so you only pay high peak fares for part of the journey.

There are exceptions, usually fares set by Cross Country because they are such rip off merchants, and you slpit them where the fare becomes priced by another operator. For example try looking at the Anytime fare Birmingham - Newcastle, then look at splitting at Doncaster where you get onto East Coast priced tickets and the saving is incredible.

[Kevin2017]

I saw a modern train on the Walsall Line today, the type that runs the Euston to New Street/Crewe Routes, are these un usual on the Wasall route? how often and when?

[Tony]

I saw a modern train on the Walsall Line today, the type that runs the Euston to New Street/Crewe Routes, are these un usual on the Wasall route? how often and when?

The class 350s run about half of Walsall-Birmingham-Wolverhampton services

[mikestone]

Following a failure at Runcorn this morning journey check is showing the 19.36 Bham-Liverpool 2 cars vice 4, presumably a cl.170.

Was actually a 350.

[Kevin2017]

Well I only saw the one and they defo dont run weekends either.

[mikestone]

The 15.42 Birmingham-Rugeley started from P3 at Walsall yesterday according to RTT. I've never noted a train do that before.

[Kevin]

Well I only saw the one and they defo dont run weekends either.

Correct, they run most of the m-f daytime service

The 15.42 Birmingham-Rugeley started from P3 at Walsall yesterday according to RTT. I've never noted a train do that before.

Not even physically possible is it? There's buffers on p3 surely?

[Tony]

Correct, they run most of the m-f daytime service

Not even physically possible is it? There's buffers on p3 surely?

Platform 3 is a through platform and once the line is electrified all Rubenstein will use Platform 3 as they are not electrifying Platform 1

[Westy]

Platform 3 is a through platform and once the line is electrified all Rubenstein will use Platform 3 as they are not electrifying Platform 1

So what happens if theres a problem then?

What is platform 1 to be used for then?

[Tony]

So what happens if theres a problem then?

What is platform 1 to be used for then?

Platform 1 won't normally be used. All trains towards Rugeley will use 3, all trains towards Birmingham will use 2