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Off peak day return train tickets
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sten_super
Brain Surgeon
Good stuff - hadn't heard of them before, although it's clear they're not a particularly big outfit and their search engine isn't the best. If they had a website as easy to use as the train line (for example) I'd like to think that they'd be raking it in.
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I thought they were legally obliged to sell you the cheapest ticket under their charter obligations?
Cowfold Seagull
Fan of the 17 bus
And to a Scotsman every penny counts! lol
Indeed, the last time I queued up to get a ticket there one of the guys directed me to a machine, I went through the whole process but at the end it didn't accept my debit card. When I asked the guy he said "oh the card reader isn't working on that one", thanks for telling me when you directed me to the machine
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Yes, I will be. Do they? Flown them before and never noticed this before. I'll buy one when I order my coffee. Thanks.
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Mmmmmm. I don't make a habit of praising rail workers (no this is not an April fool) but to be fair the Gatwick staff have been fine to me. They do a tough job dealing with hundreds of stroppy jet-lagged foreigners, and lobster coloured Brits in sombreros, in a station ticket area which clearly isn't fit-for-purpose. As one said to me, they upgrade the platforms and capacity but not the means to sell tickets to these extra punters.
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
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No worries. Any Easyjet flight I've been on into LGW recently, they usually make an announcement towards the end of the flight offering to sell you train tickets. Also gets a plug in the in-flight magazine.
34064 Fighter Command
New member
The service is run by Reading Buses, wholly owned by Reading Borough Council. Bit like Brighton and Hove buses was ( although not any more I believe ).
The services within Newbury ( and to and from my workplace ) are run by 'Newbury and District' which is owned by a local entrepreneur. The fares are subsidised by West Berkshire Unitary Authority. Thankfully I don't have to use the big boys like Stagecoach and First Group ( all PLC's so only care about their shareholder ).
Competition only works until the point where you allow PLC's to have a monopoly.
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
They do, if you ask for a single from Gatwick to Brighton then they will sell you the cheapest ticket for that particular journey, but if it's cheapest for example to buy a ticket to Haywards Heath and then buy a ticket to Brighton you would have to ask for that.
That is the system, it doesn't need me to tell you but it was a Tory government that inflicted this on us despite railway experts saying it would be unworkable and the only people to lose out would be the fare paying passenger.
Do I have to specify the station at which I want the split to occur, or are the TOCs obliged to give me the cheapest fare if I ask for "Please give me tickets for the cheapest way I can get from A to B, even if the cheapest way is to buy a split ticket/s"?
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
No you have to do it yourself, i.e. ask for a ticket to A - B & a ticket B-C , the only ticket the ticket office is allowed to sell is A-C
Lord Bracknell
On fire
Brighton & Hove Buses have never been owned by the Council - although Brighton Borough Council did own Brighton Corporation Transport which was privatised through a staff buy out in the late 1980s and subsequently merged into the Brighton & Hove Bus & Coach Company when the staff decided to take the money that was offered. From 1939, buses in Brighton, run by the Brighton, Hove & District Motor Omnibus Company, Brighton Corporation Transport and (later) Southdown operated under the terms of something called the BATS (Brighton Area Transport Services) Agreement which divvied up the routes and the fares revenue between the operators in a proportion that never varied. The BATS Agreement lasted until 1986, when the Thatcher government outlawed co-ordinated bus networks (outside London) and imagined that competition between operators would deliver better services and lower fares. Instead, we've seen the growth of big bus groups like Stagecoach, First and Go-Ahead, which have grown by a process of acquiring smaller bus companies and making sure that they can get rich through the development of local monopolies and no risk of competition getting in the way.
But I don't knock the principle of local monopolies - at least they allow a bus network to be properly planned, without the stupidity of the "bus wars" that used to break out regularly before things settled down.
Useful info from Bace the Ace!
el punal
Well-known member
I haven't looked at all the reply posts which may duplicate my response so : This Friday is off-peak all day, Thameslink are doing Super Day Return at £6.50 for Gatwick - Brighton. Southern, I believe is £10ish for the same journey.
I've always found it easier to use the relevant train company for each journey, you sometimes find that you get a better deal than using Trainline or similar, in other words - shop around. Hope all this helps.
Don't you only need to buy a ticket as far as HH as your Albion season ticket covers the rest of it
Good point. Thinking outside the box. Bace the Ace comes up trumps yet again!Don't you only need to buy a ticket as far as HH as your Albion season ticket covers the rest of it
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Don't you only need to buy a ticket as far as HH as your Albion season ticket covers the rest of it
A friend looks after my season ticket so it can be used for the games I can't make. I have it on me now, but will be giving it back to him after the Norwich match and he won't be travelling to Gatwick with me.