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Originally Posted by AccyJay
My girlfriend & myself had to go to Skipton last night for a business meeting. As we have no transport of our own, we had to travel by either train or bus. My first thought was to go by train, so i checked the times on the internet. I looked at the timetable & decided that we would catch the 4:20pm Accrington to Skipton service with a change at Leeds, this would make our arrival time approximately 6:30pm. We couldn't travel any earlier as my girlfriend was working until 4pm.
So far, so good (or so i thought).
I worked out that the meeting would take about 3 hours, so i then looked at the times for the return journey, thinking that we'd need a train back about 9:30pm. I was amazed when i noticed that the last train from Skipton to Accrington was at 7pm. We would have been charged £37.50p (return) each for this fantastic service.
Obviously we opted for "plan B", the bus. I phoned my boss, & luckily he organised an overnight stay at Heriots hotel for us. The bus journey cost us £12.40p (return) each, & we arrived at our destination 4 minutes before the train did.
Needless to say that, "Plan B" is now "Plan A" for any future journeys.
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Come on Accyjay you really didn't expecr the train service, which ever one it is, to provid a service that helps the traveller did you, this 2006 for gods sack. The motto is why be hopeless when with a little effort you can be bloody imposible.