UK maintitles.net meeting: 26th-28th July!

In Bath?

He hasn't been active for some time.

Crumbs Bregt, I have 1000's, literally 1000's of photos, at least half of them on slide film. I'll bring a varied selection and hopefully not enough to bore the pants off anyone

I arrive in Bristol on Friday so I can meet up with you guys whenever is convenient on the Saturday. My train leaves Bristol at 4:30PM on Monday.

Should we PM each other contact details of some description (mobile phone numbers perhaps)?

I don't have your number I'm afraid!

Hopefully I'll have internet access in my hotel on Friday.

Fine by me - see you there at 3. We may not want to stay there long (I don't know - depends how the mood takes us!) but it's a handy meeting place.

OK, good news and bad news. The good news is I decided last weekend to join you all in Bristol!

The bad news is that while I thought deciding to go or not was the hard part and ordering tickets was easy (just a couple of mouse clicks?), it turns out to be to other way around.


I need some help. Last night Maykel and I finally sat down with the creditcard to order tickets. I had been checking the sites and all information already for a couple of days so I figured out which train to get and everything, we only just needed to book.

Then we got to the part where it says how to get your ticket and from what I understand only the creditcard owner can pick up the tickets... and that's not me. Does anyone know how this all works? If you get the ticket from a machine, why does the owner have to be there? Of course I don't want to be stuck in Brussels a 166 euros lighter and not allowed to go on the train... or something!

I'll copy and paste the info here. If anyone understands how it works or has some experience that would be great.



BTW, I was already too late to book my tickets from here to Brussels. The good thing is Maykel can drop me off in Brussels and that means I can catch the earlier train, the one Bregt will take as well, instead of two hours later. That way we will travel together and arrive at the same time.

So, I hope it is all still possible but after last night I've lost hope a bit! And yes I know, I waited to long, but we really had to sit down to look at it and the earliest time to do that was last night! And it took a while for me to decide whether I could go or not. But meeting some of you again (Bregt, Alan) and some for the first time (Timmer, James, ...) was something I wouldn't want to miss!

Yeah me too!

The 'If the credit card owner and credit card cannot be present at ticket collection, you MUST select a different delivery method' part scares me a bit though!

We really can't figure out why it should be the owner who puts the card into the machine.
I am hoping someone has experience with these kind of tickets or with using someone elses card... I'm just afraid that for instance the credit card owners name will appear on the ticket and I will get in trouble when I try to get on the train, because it doesn't fit my ID. I have no idea what will be checked and what not and what the ticket looks like etc.

As you can see I have no experience at all travelling by international train. Or international by myself anyway...

Yay! Bregje

Tim, we're going to try and meet up here at 3.00pm on Saturday and then take it from there.

I'd see this as the main starting point. But if people can't make this time - but can later then if they mention this now then we can arrange for the group from 3.00pm to meet stragglers later on somewhere? Maybe if I (and others?) can PM either you or James with a contact phone number (or either of you do the same for us) then we could contact each other with last minute changes (late trains, being lost, etc).

Personally, I don't arrive in Bristol until Saturday lunchtime. So the 3.00pm time suits me well.

I know that Jim Ware is arriving on Friday. I'd love to be able to get there on the Friday night but it can't be done.

Your bowler hat. You won't get very far without one.

Hm, no good news yet until I solve the credit card problem!

If I come to Brussels by car then I'll also take the 7h56 train yes.

Bregt, I submitted Bruxelles Midi - Bristol Temple Meads in the Eurostar planner. That means the connection to Bristol would be included and maybe I'll have to print tickets again in London but it's that First Great Western train right?

Or did you book Bruxelles Midi - London?
Anyway, there can't be that many different national trains right?

Still hoping 'Yay ' as well... but if I can't get the right information about the tickets/credit card owner/traveller thing, then I won't take the risk.

I feel a coup coming while your away Bregt!?

Some other train companies do state that online tickets are not transferrable.

I don't suppose that you could pay cash for the through ticket?