![]() This was all duplicated for the return trip. I booked all our tickets in June using the excellent Natonal Express website and had a full pack of tickets by return of post - passenger ticket, seat ticket, bike ticket for edinburgh to inverness and passenger copy and the same for the Inverness to Thurso. Yes, we did enjoy our holiday - Orkney is a delight - and our friends got back safely - armed with complaint forms. We found another space and than had a most beautiful journey home in the sunshine. The first bike space was completely occupied by one bike whose owner had selfishly left 4 panniers attached. Another tense time at Inverness station where we were queuing round the block until they opened the platform just minutes before the train departed. The bus kept to its timetable and we made the connection to Edinburgh. OK for my husband and me (we are free on all Scottish buses) but not for our Darlington friends with whom we had been cycling on Orkney. When I showed our rail tickets I then discovered this was not the replacement bus but the service bus to Inverness and our rail tickets were not valid. I also phoned about the bikes and was told to talk to the bus driver of the replacement bus which would leave at 8am and probably would not get to Inverness in time for the connection.Ī bus turned up at the station and we all struggled to get the bikes loaded underneath. No train! No information except from fellow passenger who had used the information telephone to be told the train had been cancelled. Still fizzing from turning up at 6.30am in the rain at Thurso station with 3 bikes booked to Inverness and booked on to Edinburgh on the connecting 10.53.
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