(19 Jan 2015, 6:30 pm)AXG675 wrote I suppose that I am showing my age (72) but i reject as much as I can any kind of 'reward' system.
It has to be paid for. It is a modern con just like the unlamented 'green shield' stamps of history.
Reduce the fares instead of concocting AND paying Nectar for all this overblown stupidity.
Sadly 'huff and puff' is in the DNA of Virgin Anything.
And as for sending VEC trains to Middlesbrough via Northallerton and Yarm. Come on that is too much like simple common sense. Common sense and the DfT? Not in their DNA
I wouldn't mind betting that the Middlesbrough trains will pick up Darlington calls out of other trains that will be speeded up by not having to stop there...