Recent content by linusnorton

That would be reasonable I guess. I also just noticed that National Rail is actually splitting my ticket.

Wow, TIL. Where is that rule documented?! The routeing guide london route data even says that route 00452 (VTWC &CONNECTNS) has a london marker of 3 - "the route does not mention London"

Hello, I'm having some trouble deciphering why a particular journey is allowed within the rules of the national routeing guide. I'm looking at Norwich to Stafford on a weekday, leaving at ~7:30am. Both Trainline and National Rail return journeys that go from Norwich to London Liverpool Street...

I agree that there is a disconnect between what websites say you can do and what the rules actually are. Even the data that is made available online often contradicts itself (DTD fares restriction data vs NRE restrictions info for example) and there are many cases where there is only vague...

I thought I'd weigh in here because it's an area that I'm actively looking at. For reference my background is working for a TIS (ticket issuing machine) supplier so the design of my blockchain transport system is built around the trust issues of retailing and creating tickets. The outline has...

I did a bit of digging on this and found that the restrictions data from the fares feed has recently been updated. The time bands appear to have been moved around in the fares feed (which drives the online journey planners) but the text has not yet been updated on NRE (which is what you are...

Ah yes, you are correct :)

Brilliant.... I'll probably just use the NGC railcard geography and build some rules around that :D

Hi, Sorry, this is a bit of a technical one.I was just looking at some of the details of the senior railcard an I noted that like many others it has this statement: Discounts are not available on tickets for travel on morning Peak period services, if a journey both starts and ends within the...

Thanks, that's very helpful

I guess the N for an NDF translates to 0 and Y translates to 1 + 3?

I was going over some notes I have on the fares feed and I saw that for a flow fare record the Cross London Indicator has the following values: ‘0’ to indicate not via London, ‘1’ to indicate via London including Underground, ‘2’ to indicate via London excluding Underground, ‘3’ to...

Oh, and I will probably need to add the ticket type and journey cost somewhere.

Your understanding is correct. The other benefit of using the Gherkin syntax is that it is structured and can actually be executed as a test via a tool called cucumber, although that obviously requires integration with the system you are testing. I think it's not possible, or wise to try to...

Hi, I'm currently working on a project to create some BDD tests for the National Routeing Guide. While I believe I understand some of the rules in the National Routeing Guide my actual rail & geographic knowledge is terrible and I am struggling to come up with scenarios to test the rules...