(21 Jun 2016, 10:55 am)northern156 wrote Recommended connection times are only official guides - any flexible ticket (such as an Anytime or Off Peak) can be used on any valid journey on your ticket. Off Peak and Super Off Peak tickets can only be used on certain trains; usually after 0915 or 0930. Around the Thameslink area there's also restrictions out of St Pancras between 1600-1900 too but it's worth checking.

If you get an Advance ticket, the booking site will not let you get a journey below the recommended connection time - ie the given time taken to walk from the two furthest platforms.

If you don't like tight connections you'd be no hope with me!!! That's the fun in it. Done various +1 minute connections and even relied on late running to make some. All part of the fun

Thanks,

Heading away for a few days next week and I have a changeover in York and was hoping to get a slightly earlier train so I can get some lunch and doing some bus spotting in York before continuing on with my journey.

I've had a few close shaves with connections, nearly missed a connecting train in Doncaster one day, also had a late running TransPennine service one day from Dewsbury which made a connection at York pretty tight but fortunately the connecting train was late as well which gave me an opportunity to get a slightly naff photo of Tornado, but the one that always goes wrong is the CrossCountry service that should arrive in Darlington at 19:32 on a Saturday, nearly always have to run to Darlington Town Centre to catch the 19:45 5A home. I do admit it does add some fun and tension although pretty much every bus journey for me now has a zero minute connection as Arriva have screwed me over putting all my local services back 5 minutes. [emoji34]