Originally Posted by
Mizter T
By the way, are they definitely "Advance" tickets (if so they should be marked as such in the 'ticket type' field), rather than tickets just bought in advance? (There is a difference!) Not that it would make a great deal of difference in terms of your routing.
However, I can see that Chiltern are still selling Advance tickets for journeys on 25 April, even when they know that direct trains aren't going to run - that's pretty sloppy, the normal modus operandi is that Advance tickets are not sold until engineering works related changes are finalised. Poor show on their part.
Yes, definitely advance and routed Chiltern only. (Still learning lots of things about the trains over here, but advance vs. single vs. off-peak vs. off-peak return/day return, etc. I've got a feeling for the basic differences. If only it were clearer which services are really off-peak since there's about 100 exceptions. I usually resort to doing a mock booking to see if they'll sell me an off-peak for a particular train.)
I thought it was weird that they were selling the tickets when they weren't sure what was going to be happening, but I figured at £7.50 apiece it was a good deal even if we got stuck on a bus for part of it.