[Travel] Can someone explain train fares

[drew]

Train fares before 9am are an absolute scandal AND they have the audacity to strike!

Posties work in all conditions with no shelter. I have sympathy for them with the cost of living at the moment.

The strikers don't set the fares!!

 

[Murray 17]

Train fares before 9am are an absolute scandal AND they have the audacity to strike!

Posties work in all conditions with no shelter. I have sympathy for them with the cost of living at the moment.

Well, they need to fund the £64k that train drivers earn, I suppose.

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[clapham_gull]

This is a well known "quirk" of the system seemingly to rip off Londoners.

Many years ago I was actually advised at Haywards Heath station by staff to reverse the return ticket from London. It's technically wrong but they don't have a means of testing it at the barrier.

For the record - I always buy the correct ticket.

 

[Questions]

A few years ago I rung up to enquire how much a monthly season ticket would be from Worthing to Durrington…… I was quoted by the woman at the other end something in the region of £ 2000.
Seeing as it’s only 3 miles away I questioned it but she was adamant….

After a couple of minutes I ascertained she was putting in Darlington..

 

[Weststander]

Tickets were far simpler in the old days of BR. There was a single, return and a cheap day return. Prices were the same in all directions.

Whereas in the BR days I used to also buy Apex, SuperApex and many other connotations.

 

[Brok]

A few years ago I used to get the train from Worthing to Angmering and back. I always bought a return to Littlehampton as that was cheaper.
How do you work that one out?

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Bizarrely when I was working on the southbank a monthly London Terminals ticket (inc Blackfriars) was cheaper than a Blackfriars only monthly ticket

 

[BN9 BHA]

Well, they need to fund the £64k that train drivers earn, I suppose.

Wow! They have had a 4 grand rise, good news as according to a post on here yesterday they earn £60k

 

[jackalbion]

Train fares before 9am are an absolute scandal AND they have the audacity to strike!

Posties work in all conditions with no shelter. I have sympathy for them with the cost of living at the moment.

As far I know, the people who drive and work on platforms for train companies don't set the prices.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Maybe you should go and work in their country and take calls from the xenophobes in their language and then come back with your question

I have the OP on ignore but took a peek.

What a

And thick, too. I can navigate between offpeak, super offpeak and split fares. The fair structure is idiotic, but the staff will sort you out if you ask sensible questions, and don't act like a prick

And that's before we even begin to turn to the racism.

What a plum.

 

[BN9 BHA]

I have the OP on ignore but took a peek.

What a

And thick, too. I can navigate between offpeak, super offpeak and split fares. The fair structure is idiotic, but the staff will sort you out if you ask sensible questions, and don't act like a prick

And that's before we even begin to turn to the racism.

What a plum.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Wow! They have had a 4 grand rise, good news as according to a post on here yesterday they earn £60k

I see that the usual geniuses of NSC have turned this from a racist rant about ticket office staff to class war dig at thicky over-paid train drivers. Bravo.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

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There's no point pussyfooting about

 

[jackalbion]

The fare system in this country is nothing short of a shambles, the prices make no sense, and there is very little consistency. There are so many loopholes it definitely needs to be made more understandable, I can't see that changing under the franchise system we have now. Having a fairly good knowledge of how the railway system works in this country one thing I can say that I don't have a clue about is the fares and ticketing system, it is a complete mystery. Split ticketing have worked it out, but they do it through algorithms.

 

[pasty]

Train fares before 9am are an absolute scandal AND they have the audacity to strike!

Tell me about it. My working week is 3 days in London and 2 days at home. It is cheaper for me to buy a weekly season ticket and not use it for 4 of the 7 days it is valid, than it is to buy a ticket on each of the three days I go to London. Absolutely ridiculous that the cheapest way for me to get to work is to buy something I use less than 50% of.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

A family member wishes to come down to Worthing by train. As an example, Victoria to Worthing return today quotes £34.50 super off peak return, ticket can be used on all available trains. Yet if I search Worthing to Victoria today it quotes £21.20 super off peak return, ticket can be used on all available trains. I called the national Rail helpline to ask if the ticket starting from Worthing could be used in reverse but, unfortunately, the operative had English as a second language and didn't seem to understand the question. Can the great and good on NSC explain this.

So you asked someone if a ticket starting in Worthing i.e. Worthing to Victoria, can be used to travel from Victoria to Worthing? I'd say it's obvious you cannot; I can see why the call-centre person didnt understand you.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

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[arfer guinness]

This is a well known "quirk" of the system seemingly to rip off Londoners.

Many years ago I was actually advised at Haywards Heath station by staff to reverse the return ticket from London. It's technically wrong but they don't have a means of testing it at the barrier.

For the record - I always buy the correct ticket.

Thank you, for a simple answer some on here are unable to provide. They would rather look for racism that doesn't exist.

 

[Madafwo]

Nothing stopping you from using the return portion of a ticket before the outward, Super Off Peak tickets have a wide restriction range of about 3 hours from memory it was anything leaving Victoria between 1655 and 1955, and it is the time it leaves Victoria so would apply to later times from Clapham/Croydon, when I used to sell them as a conductor.

 

[clapham_gull]

Thank you, for a simple answer some on here are unable to provide. They would rather look for racism that doesn't exist.

I can't remember the race of the employee who told me, so I'm unable to help you there.