I received notification for the majority of my split Advance Tickets (Doncaster-York, York-Newcastle, Newcastle-Edinburgh and Edinburgh-Inverness) on 24th January and for Inverness-Strathcarron on the 17th Feb so I'd imagine you have definitely missed out, John. In fact I'm expecting notification of the return tickets from Montrose sometime in the next week or so.

It's been unusual this year: on 17th February, The Trainline let me buy 2 tickets from Glasgow to Inverness on 11th May, for only £6.60 (including discount for 2 senior railcards), but only open tickets were available so seats weren't bookable. East Coast were not selling that date yet. So I kept an eye on both Trainline and Virgin E Coast, looked again today - paid £13.20 on Virgin East Coast for the 10.10 train with booked seats!
Of course, they say they are about to do away with all the confusing hotch-potch of different fares and split ticketing.
Anyone want to buy my ultra-cheap open tickets off me.....

Yes please, Marian. I can never get a seat on Virgin Trains.

Strathcarron sounds like the hot place to start this year!

Not for us as we will be getting the bus to Torridon on the Friday for a late-ish start. An overnight stay at the backpackers hostel in Inverness means we won't be in Strathcarron until lunchtime.

Another Strathcarron starter here. All the best people y'know.
Booked through from Carlisle was £135
Split to 4 journeys was £40.70
Some connections are a bit tight at 9 and 6 minutes ,fingers crossed !

Thanks folks!

It seems that Trainline want to route me via Edinburgh - going the manual method of booking (IE I choose the different legs of the journey...via Glasgow) I've managed to get myself to Mallaig for norralot of dosh - and at sensible connection times.

See y'all, well most of y'all, at Glasgow!

:-)