I was considering a day trip to South Wales from London but after asking some questions about public transportation on TripAdvisor, I was not-so-politely discouraged from this and told it was "unfeasible".
So my new idea is to go to York for a day. I wanted to go there a few years ago but didn't due to weather. My sister and I fly home from Manchester on Oct. 28, and I was thinking about going to York for the day on Oct. 27. We would check out of our hotel, go to York, and in the late afternoon take the train to Manchester. It seems more time-efficient (and cheaper?) to do it this way, rather than do a 6-hour round-trip to York one day and a 3-hour train trip to Manchester another day.
I searched this site for left luggage at the York train station but all of the available information seems to be more than 2 years old. Does anyone know if the York train station has left luggage?
My other question is whether to buy train tickets from London to York and York to Manchester now, or wait. I hesitate to buy them not only because of possible train strikes but also because of weather. I was in London 3 years ago and there was so much rain that there was flooding in northern England. I know that was a fluke, but it makes me hesitant.