Wales explorer 4 in 8 ticket: trip 3

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[Mark A]

At a stand at Tywyn  awaiting the southbound train, which has sat down on the approach with an I. T. issue and is refusing to move.

Mark

[Mark A]

Marconi broadcast from here, my great aunt remembered his visit, and now, here am I sending text to the coffeeshop forum via a mobile phone, what is this life?

Mark

[Mark A]

Update: arrived in good order, after the service picked up an entire school full of children at Harlech.

Mark

[grahame]

Update: arrived in good order, after the service picked up an entire school full of children at Harlech.

Mark

It does / they do 

The School just outside the station has classes that start and end to co-incide with the the times the trains pass there, and you'll see teachers escorting children to the station and onto the trains in the afternoon.   The closest a train comes to the school bus these days?

[Mark A]

Weather on this part of the coast has been benign but various train services suspended for the day means that I'm hoping the extended validity of tickets that is on offer will apply to 4 in 8 day Wales explorer tickets as I'm hoping to make this one a 4 in 9 day ticket.

[grahame]

Weather on this part of the coast has been benign but various train services suspended for the day means that I'm hoping the extended validity of tickets that is on offer will apply to 4 in 8 day Wales explorer tickets as I'm hoping to make this one a 4 in 9 day ticket.

I appreciate you are in TfW^▸ (Transport for Wales) land, but on GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) JourneyCheck I read:

We are sorry for the disruption to your travel plans. If you are able to postpone your journey, you will be able to use any tickets for yesterday (8th Jan) or today at no additional cost on GWR services up to and including Sunday 11th January. Alternatively, if you are unable to travel, you can claim a free refund for your tickets.

and that says ANY tickets - so presumable final days of rovers.

That is contrary to what they did on the introduction of lockdown - I was in the middle of an 8 in 15 and refund of the unused part was refused.

TfW are reporting things like this but I can't see anything on their web site that talks about ticket acceptance

Due to forecasted severe weather between Swansea (SWA^▸ (Swansea station)) and Shrewsbury (SHR^▸ (Shrewsbury station)):

We expect the incident to last until the end of the day and disruption to services is expected until the end of the day.

Network Rail have reported weather warnings for heavy sleet and snow in the area and have closed the railway to all services.

You cannot travel - there are no trains running and we are unable to run Rail Replacement Bus services.

[Mark A]

Ah, they have this::

You may use your ticket on the following alternative dates at no extra cost, but please note services may still be disrupted by heavy snowfall any day up to and including Monday 12 January.

Mark