Train Ncle to Manchester

meg00

2 pensioners looking to travel Newcastle upon Tyne to Manchester, we have a 2 together railcard and will be travelling Wed 27th May am, back Thursday pm, staying overnight in city centre. I am finding online booking totally baffling, and cannot find any tel no to speak to anyone. Does anyone know of a ticket place that will actually speak to customers?

I have also been advised not to use cross country due to maintenance delays.

Thanks.

Meg

flaneurs_lobster

Ticket office at Newcastle station?

National Rail offer a phone (as in talking to a person on) booking service.

https://www.nationalrail.com/how-to-book-train-tickets-by-phone-stress-free-travel-national-rail/

No idea about Cross Country services.

RAS

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6668780/train-ncle-to-manchester

The current limited service on transpennine between Manchester and York finishes on May 25. The next set of work starts on May 30. Google transpennine route upgrade.

Haven't checked beyond those cities. But you may just be lucky, unlike me this week.

Worried_fool

Trainsplit suggests these tickets, valid only on the specified trains:

Tickets	Price	Description
Newcastle > Leeds Advance Single	£18.60	Valid on CrossCountry services only. Advance tickets are valid only on the booked services. Restriction XV applies More details Discounts applied Two Together Railcard (must travel with 1× Two Together Railcard, covering 2 adults)
Leeds > Mirfield Advance Single	£3.10	Only valid on booked Northern services. Restriction NT applies More details Discounts applied Two Together Railcard (must travel with 1× Two Together Railcard, covering 2 adults)
Mirfield > Manchester Piccadilly, Victoria, Oxford Road or Deansgate Advance Single	£10.10	Only valid on booked TransPennine Express services. Restriction TD applies More details Discounts applied Two Together Railcard (must travel with 1× Two Together Railcard, covering 2 adults)
Manchester Piccadilly, Victoria, Oxford Road or Deansgate > Newcastle Advance Single	£35.00	Only valid on booked TransPennine Express services and required connecting services. Restriction TD applies More details Discounts applied Two Together Railcard (must travel with 1× Two Together Railcard, covering 2 adults)

Here are the trains you would have to use:

Train to Leeds

09:40Newcastle4 stops, 1h 25m
CrossCountry service
11:05Leeds

Wait 12 minutes

Train to Mirfield

11:17Leeds4 stops, 23m
Northern service
11:40Mirfield

Wait 6 minutes

Train to Manchester Piccadilly

11:46Mirfield7 stops, 51m
TransPennine Express service
12:37Manchester Piccadilly

Manchester Piccadilly to Newcastle

Total journey time: 2h 39m

Train to Leeds

18:30Manchester Piccadilly7 stops, 1h 3m
TransPennine Express service
19:33Leeds

Wait 12 minutes

Train to York

19:45Leeds Non-stop, 22m
TransPennine Express service
20:07York

Wait 13 minutes

Train to Newcastle

20:20York Non-stop, 49m
London North Eastern Railway service
Planned as Azuma
21:09Newcastle

meg00

There is no ticket office now,

flaneurs_lobster

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82003021#Comment_82003021

At Newcastle station? Says Travel Centre on LNER website, says Ticket Office on National Rail site. Are they both wrong?

la531983

I would be absolutely staggered if a station like Newcastle had no manned ticket office.

Nasqueron

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82003021#Comment_82003021

You can use sites like TrainPal or Trainline or just one operator website and they book all the steps in one go and put all the times/changes when they email you and they are on the e-ticket with the scannable QR code (or if really necessary, order to a local train station to print off)

flaneurs_lobster

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82003100#Comment_82003100

And do either TrainPal or Trainline offer a person to talk to to make the booking, as per the OPs request?

Nasqueron

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82003415#Comment_82003415

They want to talk to a person to tell them how to do an online booking but you don't need to talk to a person to do it, it's incredibly simple and those sites do all the work and give you all the train details. Go on National Rail site, go on Trainline etc put in start and end destination and time. If the link below works that is morning ticket from Newcastle on the 27th, return from Manchester on the 28th in the afternoon. Took me literally 10 seconds

https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/journey-planner/?type=return&origin=NCL&destination=115&leavingType=departing&leavingDate=270526&leavingHour=09&leavingMin=00&returnType=departing&returnDate=280526&returnHour=12&returnMin=00&adults=2&extraTime=0#O