I'm trying to buy tickets with return for London Kings Cross to Leeds
and back. I'm on GNERs website and it won't let me buy them because
it only accepts UK postcodes. How can I buy the tickets? I don't
want to wait because the advance ticket prices seem good now but i'm
guessing they'll be more expensive the day of travel, and I want to
make sure we get a seat.
Any suggestions on some other way to buy these tickets? I tried first
class, fasttrack, none of them work.

Russ wrote:

I'm trying to buy tickets with return for London Kings Cross to Leeds
and back. I'm on GNERs website and it won't let me buy them because
it only accepts UK postcodes. How can I buy the tickets? I don't
want to wait because the advance ticket prices seem good now but i'm
guessing they'll be more expensive the day of travel, and I want to
make sure we get a seat.
Any suggestions on some other way to buy these tickets? I tried first
class, fasttrack, none of them work.


Some train companies require UK postcodes and some don't. I usually buy
British railway tickets on First ScotRail or ONE Railway websites and
neither of them require a UK postcode. You should be able to buy tickets
for GNER trains on other train companies websites as well.

First ScotRail:
http://www.firstscotrail.trainsfares.co.uk
ONE Railway:
http://www.onerailway.trainsfares.co.uk

These sites use the same booking system as TheTrainLine:
http://www.thetrainline.com
(You can buy tickets directly on TheTrainLine website too, but IIRC they
charge a fee.)

--
Olof Lagerkvist
ICQ: 724451
Web: http://here.is/olof

I tried both of them, trying the FastTicket option, and both of them
are requiring a UK postcode.

On Sep 3, 6:33 pm, Olof Lagerkvist wrote:
Russ wrote:
I'm trying to buy tickets with return for London Kings Cross to Leeds
and back. I'm on GNERs website and it won't let me buy them because
it only accepts UK postcodes. How can I buy the tickets? I don't
want to wait because the advance ticket prices seem good now but i'm
guessing they'll be more expensive the day of travel, and I want to
make sure we get a seat.
Any suggestions on some other way to buy these tickets? I tried first
class, fasttrack, none of them work.

Some train companies require UK postcodes and some don't. I usually buy
British railway tickets on First ScotRail or ONE Railway websites and
neither of them require a UK postcode. You should be able to buy tickets
for GNER trains on other train companies websites as well.

First ScotRail:http://www.firstscotrail.trainsfares.co.uk
ONE Railway:http://www.onerailway.trainsfares.co.uk

These sites use the same booking system as TheTrainLine:http://www.thetrainline.com
(You can buy tickets directly on TheTrainLine website too, but IIRC they
charge a fee.)

--
Olof Lagerkvist
ICQ: 724451
Web:http://here.is/olof

On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:05:49 -0000, Russ
wrote:

I tried both of them, trying the FastTicket option, and both of them
are requiring a UK postcode.

You could try making one up, though I don't know if it would work with
your credit card.

Neil

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Put my first name before the at to reply.

"Neil Williams" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:05:49 -0000, Russ
wrote:

I tried both of them, trying the FastTicket option, and both of them
are requiring a UK postcode.

You could try making one up, though I don't know if it would work with
your credit card.

Neil


Register first. I used an Australian post code and Australian postal address
(and .au email address) I was then able to purchase tickets and pick them up
at the fast ticket machine at KX.

Peter
Sydney

On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 05:14:13 +0000, (in
), Neil Williams wrote:

On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:05:49 -0000, Russ
wrote:

I tried both of them, trying the FastTicket option, and both of them
are requiring a UK postcode.

You could try making one up, though I don't know if it would work with
your credit card.

If it's for validation of your card details, rather than simply posting
then I think it's typically at the merchant's discretion whether they
allow the transaction. At least that's the way it works here, extra
charges may be incurred by the merchant as the address isn't (can't) be
validated, but as yet the address/postcode look-up for cards here in the UK
does not extend to the USA, or indeed to mainland Europe or the Republic
for many Barclaycard Merchant Transactions IME.

Stephan
--
Stephan Bird MChem(Hons) AMRSC
Currently in Caernarfon, Wales

Russ wrote:

I tried both of them, trying the FastTicket option, and both of them
are requiring a UK postcode.


As others have pointed out, register first and set up an account with
your details and the use that account to buy the tickets. It has worked
for me with Swedish addresses etc. (But it could have been changed since
I last used it of course.)

--
Olof Lagerkvist
ICQ: 724451
Web: http://here.is/olof

On Sep 4, 3:41 am, "peter" wrote:
"Neil Williams" wrote in message

...

On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:05:49 -0000, Russ
wrote:

I tried both of them, trying the FastTicket option, and both of them
are requiring a UK postcode.

You could try making one up, though I don't know if it would work with
your credit card.

Neil

Register first. I used an Australian post code and Australian postal address
(and .au email address) I was then able to purchase tickets and pick them up
at the fast ticket machine at KX.

Peter
Sydney

It wouldn't let me even begin placing an order until I registered...
It doesn't like my zipcode in the US of 77429

On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 03:46:03 -0500, Stephan Bird
wrote:

If it's for validation of your card details, rather than simply posting
then I think it's typically at the merchant's discretion whether they
allow the transaction.

Probably. KLM once (recently) put through a transaction I made on
their website with an incorrect expiry date! I was astonished when I
phoned up to check that they had accepted it, on the grounds that "all
the other details matched".

Neil

--
Neil Williams
Put my first name before the at to reply.

On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:34:26 +0000, (in
), Neil Williams wrote:

On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 03:46:03 -0500, Stephan Bird
wrote:

If it's for validation of your card details, rather than simply posting
then I think it's typically at the merchant's discretion whether they
allow the transaction.

Probably. KLM once (recently) put through a transaction I made on
their website with an incorrect expiry date! I was astonished when I
phoned up to check that they had accepted it, on the grounds that "all
the other details matched".

Now that I am surprised at. IME if you don't have the correct dates for
the card, then it's automatically a void transaction. Had you used that
exact card before with them, and so could they potentially (illegally?
DPA?) have dug up an old record to check?

Stephan
--
Stephan Bird MChem(Hons) AMRSC
Currently in Caernarfon, Wales