The West Midlands Day Ranger Ticket
For my trip around Birmingham last week, I had decided to use a West Midlands Day Ranger Ticket.
I had hoped to purchase one in the Booking Office at Lichfield Trent Valley station, but it was closed and only with difficulty was I able to purchase one on the train into Birmingham.
But I didn’t get a map with the ticket, as I have had in Lancashire before, where Northern Rail have a leaflet detailing all their Day Ranger tickets. There’s one here on the National Rail web site.
On the Thursday, I walked to New Street and bought a ticket, but the only map they had was a photocopy.
The area covered by a West Midlands Day Ranger is large and covers the area bounded by Crewe, Shrewsbury, Hereford, Worcester, Stratford-on-Avon, Leamington Spa, Northampton, Rugby, Nuneaton, Lichfield and Stoke.
As trains are generally frequent between all stations, it was an ideal ticket for my purposes and I got good value on both days in Birmingham. Coming back to London on the Thursday, I used my Day Ranger Ticket to get to Northampton, where I bought a ticket for Watford Junction and travelled back on a virtually-empty London Midland train.
The Overground from Watford Junction wasn’t empty, as I caught the aftermath of the rush hour on the day of the Tube stroke.
The two possible disadvantages of the West Midlands Day Ranger Ticket, is that it must be used after 9:30 and isn’t valid on the Midlands Metro.
Next time, I want to visit several places in the West Midlands, I’ll go to Leamington Spa or Northampton and then use a West Midlands Day Ranger.
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