Oh dear.. Could they not do it over the phone?

That'd be much too simple. I'm hoping that if I go to a station and talk to a real person, I might actually get somwhere. Last time I went to Dundee, the nice man behind the counter told me it was cheaper to get a single to Perth, and a single from Perth to Dundee than it was to get a single to Dundee. He was right!

Ahahah - that's SO last year, get with the Web 2.0 dude. :{)

Some good news, anyway - now the 27th meat is off, I am doing sound for the heavy metal Abba tribute band after all.

Woo, I have been telling people about that band. The name alone makes me want to come along.

I'm 90% sure I'll be there. :)

Need to check with my brother, book hotel for the preceeding week and reserve the time off work, but that should all be okay.

Well, that was interesting. Went to Queen Street station, gave the lovely lady there the sheet of paper I'd printed the times of the trains I was trying to get on, she keyed them into her computer and told me the trains I was trying to get didn't exist. I asked if she could put me onto the nearest existing trains, and she did. What a faff!

 

Still, I'm all booked up, and will be on the 10:30 from Edinburgh to York (coach G), and the 9:30 to Edinbugger from Glasgow (probably).

"The 10.50 train to York, does not exist. Please listen for further anouncements"

 

Hurrah!

Any chance of a note of what trains you're getting and I'll pop into queen street and book myself onto them too?

 

Cheers!

The outward journey is (09:30) Queen Street to Waverley, then the 10:30 Edinburgh -> York (and I'm in coach G, seat 28). That was £17.50 as a GNER Standard Advance.

 

Back is the 13:10 Leeds -> York (Coach C, seat 63), then 14:06 York -> Edinburgh (Coach F, seat 35), then whenever from Waverley to Queen Street. It was £27 as a GNER Standard Advance.

 

Let me know how you get on...

So, can you and Bobbert make the 10th?

YOu gits must have got the last of the cheap tickets. My return is £46, and that's with my YP discount card!

 

Ah well, all in the name of beer...

 

EDIT: Ah, just noticed that you were quoting prices for each leg of the journey! My total price (cunning use of singles) comes to £38 something. Woo.

 

EDIT EDIT: This is a really boring post. Sorry.

I will confirm for the new date. Now if we can just get the trains sorted out! Thanks for all the hard work Kennethness.

My original tickets were going to be £38, and then when I went to Queen Street, they started off being £38, but the nice lady realised she'd booked it for October, and had to cancel it. This seemed to involve her printing out about 20 tickets, while a group of Spanish students with backpacks harumphed impatiently behind me.

Can i just check? Why is it leeds-york on the way back? Is that how you get back from steeton?

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Yeah - the Steeton train goes to Leeds. I forgot to actually get the ticket from Steeton because I'm used to having a return to/from Leeds and then just trusting in drunken magic and hungover magic to get me to and from Steeton.

Cool beans. I will go to the station tomorrow.

Far as I know, yaharr

Rich, can you make this newly faffed date?

So far so good.