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« Reply #15 on: August 21, 2007, 09:16:29 pm »
My London tickets have arrived but I have no seat reservations.  After three telephone calls tonight to Central Trains (who issued the ticket) Trainline (who run the website who sold me the ticket) and Midland Mainline (Who operate the train I'm going on); it transpires only so many seats are allocated to reservation.  The  woman at Midline Mainline says this is because so many are allocated to them via their phone ticket line, so many to the website and so many to the station booking office portals. However, these all use different systems, so she can't pinch some of the available ones.  I am very frustrated.

I will bed all of Girls Aloud in their school uniforms before we get integrated transport in this rotten country.  If they can't even intergrate the tickets, how can they intergrate the trains?


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« Reply #16 on: August 22, 2007, 12:04:44 pm »
Once again another post got Deleted!

WHY???


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« Reply #17 on: August 22, 2007, 03:04:55 pm »
What post was this?
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« Reply #18 on: August 22, 2007, 04:21:07 pm »
I was telling bounty that midland Mainline is getting the boot in 80 days time and replace by the new ( 4-5 train companies are becoming 2-3 )

East midland trains
http://www.eastmidlandstrains.co.uk/
and
http://www.londonmidland.co.uk/


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« Reply #19 on: August 23, 2007, 12:54:00 am »

Maybe it was a system error or something.

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« Reply #20 on: August 23, 2007, 06:33:11 pm »
The site was playing up again yesterday - I gave up trying to post after four or five attempts.
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« Reply #21 on: August 27, 2007, 06:03:56 pm »
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