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It’s a rather significant one in the North of England.

The problem is, where do you put flows such as Newcastle-Darlington-York which have what would be a combination of 'InterCity' and regional services, but in practice there are only marginal differences in journey times?

In both cases, the answer will be much longer than the task would take in many other countrie. That's what needs addressing.

As ever with the rail system, the response to passenger demand is to seek to limit it rather than the normal commercial response. There's a deeper issue here.

I'd like to say that made things clearer, but... :)

Genuine question. Do people take paper timetables out with them, or just just them as collectables? I'd find it far too faffy to have multiple bits of paper out with me rather that just looking up online what I need.

Get on whichever train you want, within the validity time of your ticket. Any claimed new restrictions have no legal reality.

So how is it compliant without audio?

Given these also operate as commuter services in the Sheffield and Nottingham areas, and shopper services around Meadowhall, all of which will have variable travel times for the individuals concerned, how silly this even work?

Again, there needs to be a principle of not helping literalists. We know that it means the next station that the service is scheduled to stop at. Literalists just add verbiage which make announcements longer and confusing for everyone else.

Even so, it should be pretty obvious that ‘the front’ means the front at the given time.

Knowing what the phrase is in Welsh that they use would be fascinating in itself… :)

See my thread at https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/super-off-peak-single-not-showing-as-valid-on-grand-central.300484/

You mean like Grand Central do?

Not sure this is something that can be blamed on privatisation, more a general decline in literacy and attention to detail.