Recent content by Paul Kelly

This is a really good question and I have deliberately not contributed to forum discussions on this topic since in my opinion the NRCoT changes are so messed-up and leave so many open questions. I think they are probably open to various legal challenges. But you can see the position I take on...

That's unfortunately not really in my control - the Cloudflare system makes its own decisions about browser verification. I suspect if bot traffic is very heavy at the time you visit the site, you are more likely to be asked to verify but I'm not sure. The dashboard I have shows that over the...

No although it would not be complicated to allow it, although I can't promise I would have time! What's the use case you need it for?

Quite a few are available as e-ticket, e.g. Off-Peak Day Return from Boundary Zone 6 to Brighton: https://www.brfares.com/!selectfare?orig=QAJ&dest=BTN&tkt=CDR

The Northlink ferries from Scrabster to Stromness on Orkney have been missing from the rail timetable data since some time between January and March this year - Scrabster showing no departures: https://www.brtimes.com/!board?stn=SCB I haven't been able to find any discussion of it - does anyone...

Isn't this a classic case when this rule applies:

If quick purchases are the aim then I'm going to recommend my own site, www.brfares.com - you can save your usual journeys as a Quickfare and then buy them with just three taps/clicks, once you've saved your details after your first purchase.

The issue with the computational complexity of return journeys is about the non-additive weights when using a return. The cheapest price depends not only on attributes of the outward journey but also on attributes of the return journey, so you can't do a simple shortest path calculation. The...

For walk-up single fares, it should be guaranteed the cheapest. (Edit: for one passenger only; it already can get pretty complicated with two are travelling together) A few people have made a reasonable attempt before, e.g. https://faremap.cjar.co.uk/ As the creator of many of them, I...

I looked into this and it seems the insurance provider for that has gone out of business: And following the link, Cancel for any reason allowed cancellation up to 15 minutes before departure of the booked train, so it seems they've just moved to a new insurance provider with worse terms.

There are two different ticket types: WKF for outward travel on a Friday and WKG for outward travel on a Saturday. If you look at the ticket purchase page on BR Fares it is pretty clear which is which since it won't allow you to buy one for the wrong day e.g. WKF shows as not available again...

Unfortunately not; they went silent on me a few months ago. They had been scraping the data since at least 2019.

Tracsis used to scrape the BR Fares API (without paying) to validate prices on claims but they didn't notice that their API call was just getting error responses for 2 1/2 years, after I moved the API away to run on a separate server in mid-2023. I would speculate that they sold their service to...

Thanks for the extra detail - that was very helpful. This was not intentional - hence my confusion at the message from mickey. Apparently it's the default option for the Google privacy/consent dialog to only show a prominent "Do not consent" option when the dialog is re-opened (not when first...

BR Fares is selling at the correct price today (the data was finally updated last night), though as fandroid noted above you could always just deselect the minimum fare with a toggle. I suspect many ticket vending machines might not have overnight data updates to avoid accidental failures from...