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National Rail Enquiries
May 25^th, 2005 at 4:19pm

national rail enquiries non-geo number is 0845 7484950 but you could access this number on 0207 2785240, number obtained from this site. I tried it today but received a message that this number is for international callers only! It seems that they have now blocked access on this number-does anybody know an alternative?

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by Dave: The thread for National Rail's TrainTracker service is here.

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bigjohn Supreme Member Offline Posts: 2,316 Gender:	Re: national rail timetable enquiries Reply #1 - May 25^th, 2005 at 4:51pm You can get through on 0191 218 8004.See the recent link in Geographical number chat, entitled SNEAKY RAIL ENQUIRIES.
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Heinz Supreme Member Offline Posts: 1,362 Essex	Re: national rail timetable enquiries Reply #2 - May 25^th, 2005 at 7:58pm Quote: national rail enquiries non-geo number is 0845 7484950 but you could access this number on 0207 2785240, number obtained from this site. I tried it today but received a message that this number is for international callers only! And how did they know you weren't calling from abroad?
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bigjohn Supreme Member Offline Posts: 2,316 Gender:	Re: national rail timetable enquiries Reply #3 - May 25^th, 2005 at 8:48pm They have some sort of equipment on one of there switches that reads the incoming number, that can tell when the call is coming from a uk landline!!! Read the thread in geographic chat (SNEAKY RAIL ENQUIRIES!!!)
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mc661 Senior Member Offline Habitual FOI requester. Posts: 432 West-Norfolk Gender:	Re: national rail timetable enquiries Reply #4 - May 26^th, 2005 at 3:41am the 0191 takes a while to answer around this time of the morning thou
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davis Newbie Offline Posts: 49 Gender:	Re: national rail timetable enquiries Reply #5 - May 26^th, 2005 at 11:02am Many thanks guys. I guess they will try to filter out calls from within UK but we can only keep trying.
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Re: national rail timetable enquiries
Reply #6 - May 26^th, 2005 at 3:07pm

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They have some sort of equipment on one of there switches that reads the incoming number, that can tell when the call is coming from a uk landline!!! Read the thread in geographic chat (SNEAKY RAIL ENQUIRIES!!!)

I phoned the Inland Revenue (or whatever they're now called) on a geographical number the other day and spoke to a very helpful man!

During the conversation, he mentioned that he knew I was calling from abroad!

I hadn't the heart to tell him that I was just using the 18866 prefix!

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« Last Edit: May 26^th, 2005 at 3:08pm by Heinz »

After years of ignoring govt. guidelines & RIPPING OFF Council Tax payers using 0845 numbers, Essex County Council changed to 0345 numbers on 2 November 2015

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Reply #7 - May 26^th, 2005 at 4:02pm

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They have some sort of equipment on one of there switches that reads the incoming number, that can tell when the call is coming from a uk landline!!! Read the thread in geographic chat (SNEAKY RAIL ENQUIRIES!!!)

The lengths that these cretins go to in order to stop people circumventing their rip-off numbers is truly staggering. Like many others that live outside the UK, I occasionally use voice-over-internet systems to connect to UK numbers. Many of these will present a standard UK number on CLI equipment. As I can't call the non-geographic number in the first place, the rail enquiry system wrongly detects that I am calling from the UK and refers me to the rip-off number. Clueless. If UK businesses put as much effort into customer service as they do to stop people getting round the extortion numbers, then they could really benefit. They won't as businesses and other orgz appear to be administered by complete numpties. When will they ever learn?! The UK will decline in terms of international importance, and not a moment too soon. Ofcom - what a laugh. Incompetent and impotent fools. Shameful.

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Tanllan Supreme Member Offline Posts: 797 Gender:	Re: national rail timetable enquiries Reply #8 - May 26^th, 2005 at 7:13pm Quote: Incompetent and impotent fools. Shameful. Just spotted that impotent con is an anagram of incompetent I really need cheering up when I now see so many lists for international use and find that only the UK contact numbers are revenue share. What a shabby little country we are becoming
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craigr98 Newbie Offline Say NO to non geographical numbers. Posts: 8 Sheffield Gender:	Re: national rail timetable enquiries Reply #9 - May 26^th, 2005 at 9:44pm Just rung them now and it definately works. 0191 is Newcastle isnt it?
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Dave Global Moderator Offline Posts: 9,902 Yorkshire Gender:	Re: National Rail Enquiries Reply #10 - Nov 30^th, 2005 at 7:25pm You can look-up train times via the web at www.nationalrail.co.uk. If you have a wap enabled mobile phone you can look them up on there at wap.nationalrail.co.uk.
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mc661 Senior Member Offline Habitual FOI requester. Posts: 432 West-Norfolk Gender:	Re: National Rail Enquiries Reply #11 - Dec 1^st, 2005 at 9:39pm 0191 is newcastle. They use BT's Call Centre next to the River Tyne. Think one half is BT 150 and the other is NRE. Well it used to be anyway, may have changed since bangalore 99p an hour wages came into it.
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nutellajunkie Full Member Offline [GURU MEDITATION] Posts: 191 Alba Gender:	Re: National Rail Enquiries Reply #12 - Dec 2^nd, 2005 at 10:10pm im sure its 20p a day now?
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lavender Newbie Offline none Posts: 16 Wiltshire	Re: National Rail Enquiries Reply #13 - Dec 7^th, 2005 at 4:49pm What a swizz ! With the half page article about 0870 and 0845 etc numbers in yesterday's Daily Mail, maybe these robber companies are getting wise to saynoto0870 and therefore blocking them to UK callers. Diabolical ! From lavender
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juby Full Member Offline Posts: 203 Gloucestershire Gender:	Re: National Rail Enquiries Reply #14 - Dec 8^th, 2005 at 9:48pm Dave wrote on Nov 30^th, 2005 at 7:25pm: You can look-up train times via the web at www.nationalrail.co.uk. If you have a wap enabled mobile phone you can look them up on there at wap.nationalrail.co.uk. Yes you can, but I much prefer www.thetrainline.com Quicker and less down time. juby
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