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Er, daft question: is Cambridge train station manned?
TheUnbeliever
Er, daft question: is Cambridge train station manned?

Yup indeedy.
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TheUnbeliever
Er, daft question: is Cambridge train station manned?


There are certainly people about, and a manned ticket desk and stuff?
That's great, thanks. :smile: Fast responses! I'm buying tickets for a trip back home and want to get them in person to avoid the risk of them going MIA in the post.
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TheUnbeliever
That's great, thanks. :smile: Fast responses! I'm buying tickets for a trip back home and want to get them in person to avoid the risk of them going MIA in the post.


I had a trip back home in Michaelmas last year, I should warn you, it's quite a mission.
paddy__power
Went to cambridge today - so beautiful. The wind also blew my hair everywhere D=. i liked downing though, and hated the tourists.

Decided I currently dislike cam students for having a place while I dont =p.

Ah well, fingers = crossed.

Did you visit Downing?

Good luck applying there, any questions about Downing feel free to ask. :smile:
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TheUnbeliever
That's great, thanks. :smile: Fast responses! I'm buying tickets for a trip back home and want to get them in person to avoid the risk of them going MIA in the post.


You can also buy them online from trainline, etc, and then pick them up from the machines at the station
Stratocaster
Did you visit Downing?

Good luck applying there, any questions about Downing feel free to ask. :smile:


I did, loving the random football goals lol. There was also someone playing frisbee on there own ... lol

edit: It may have been you lol! judging from your profile. Practising?
TheUnbeliever
Er, daft question: is Cambridge train station manned?


afaik they're manned until around midnight, when they open the barriers and bugger off.

TheUnbeliever
That's great, thanks. :smile: Fast responses! I'm buying tickets for a trip back home and want to get them in person to avoid the risk of them going MIA in the post.


As MC REN says, get nxec or thetrainline or whoever to deliver them to the machine in the station and you can pick them up. Just be sure to have the order code thing and the card that you got them off, although I forgot once and got them off the chap in the ticket office anyway.
MC REN
You can also buy them online from trainline, etc, and then pick them up from the machines at the station

ukebert
As MC REN says, get nxec or thetrainline or whoever to deliver them to the machine in the station and you can pick them up. Just be sure to have the order code thing and the card that you got them off, although I forgot once and got them off the chap in the ticket office anyway.


Thanks, I'll take a look at doing that. :biggrin:
I got Gould's Art of Fugue through the post from my A2 Music teacher today :biggrin:

paddy__power
Went to cambridge today - so beautiful. The wind also blew my hair everywhere D=. i liked downing though, and hated the tourists.

With Downing, the main court / quad is so big that you hardly notice them from afar, not with the pressure of Saturday lectures or a looming essay deadline.
michaelyus
I got Gould's Art of Fugue through the post from my A2 Music teacher today :biggrin:


With Downing, the main court / quad is so big that you hardly notice them from afar, not with the pressure of Saturday lectures or a looming essay deadline.


thats good =], cant be too bad anyway
michaelyus
I got Gould's Art of Fugue through the post from my A2 Music teacher today :biggrin:


Ooh, wow, I love Gould :biggrin: I've got his Partitas and both of his Goldberg variations, as well as another collection, but not the Art of Fugue. Let me know what it's like :smile:
ukebert
Let me know what it's like :smile:

Will do...tomorrow probably (maybe early tomorrow...). After I watch The Imaginarium tonight.
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smilepea
My house is empty so I have no one to tell me if I actually look like a leopard or not :sad:
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TheUnbeliever
That's great, thanks. :smile: Fast responses! I'm buying tickets for a trip back home and want to get them in person to avoid the risk of them going MIA in the post.
Nah I bought some tickets online, got them in 2 days.
Chess Piece Face
It's the Clare Open Mic in the Cellars a week from a today and TWW and I will be performing! I will also be premiering an epic masterpiece that I have been working hard on for a long time. :p: (Some of you here will know what I'm talking about; for those who I haven't told, I'll keep it a surprise!) I'm not sure what TWW will be performing but he never disappoints. So it'd be really cool if some of you CamChatters could come. :smile:

When and where is it precisely? I'd very much like to come and see you guys perform. :yep:
paddy__power
I did, loving the random football goals lol. There was also someone playing frisbee on there own ... lol

edit: It may have been you lol! judging from your profile. Practising?

Haha, I was actually playing in matches with the Downing team today, but it probably would be me on any other day. :P

We had some orienteering people continuously running around college today. I guess we were part of the map. Strange stuff.
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I love how stupid Oxbridge can make you feel, woooooo. I feel like such a moron for having spent my summers sleeping, eating and watching TV when otherpeople go to Harvard Summer School or something.
TheUnbeliever
That's great, thanks. :smile: Fast responses! I'm buying tickets for a trip back home and want to get them in person to avoid the risk of them going MIA in the post.

Yeah, just watch out, in my experience (which is mostly of Saturday mornings) the counters / machines for tickets get very busy, so allow lots of time for ticket buying. If you're buying advance tickets you can go to a separate office (don't go into the main ticket hall, turn right beforehand and start walking round the outside of the building) which is always quiet, and avoid the queues.

I hate buying tickets in person. Once the ticket machines broke so they brought in extra people who stood in a corner with hand-held ticket selling machines, the same kind conductors use. It was chaos. Four of us, all with railcards, asked four different ticket sellers for a return ticket to Finsbury Park in London, and got charged four different prices... unfortunately we didn't have time to contest this as by then the train was due!

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