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Frankly advances would be better going back to two or three sets of singles and returns. Maybe putting a set each under the same time restriction as the Anytime, Off-Peak and Super Off-Peak fares on the flow. Another thing that doesn't help is the drive towards single TOC advances and the...

There's nothing smart about throwing good people out of work. And that's all these things are being brought in for.

To be expected when the number of Revenue Protection positions is cut in half at a stroke.

I went to Search Engine at the NRM and asked for the National Fares Manuals covering my local station (Milton Keynes) for 1983 (to compare against the INTIS transaction roll I got hold of after the travel centre closed) and 1987. In 1983, the fare structure was broadly like so...

Changeovers of annual seasons are worked out like so: Base rate of current ticket = annual price + 365 Base rate of new ticket = annual price + 365 Note that if the season was bought at the previous year's pricing, the new ticket must also be calculated using last year's pricing. Find...

Unless there's another one that looks similar, this coach and low-loader turned up at the entrance to Wolverton Works as I was on the way to the station yesterday afternoon

£246.50 is the "Via London" fare, the Not London fare is £142.50. http://www.brfares.com/#expert?orig=SHN&dest=BUX

So why not just have AP Slough then?

Is there a TOC that doesn't try and pretend that booking offices don't exist in their publicity?

Translation: All booking offices closed by 2020. Because no smartcard system outside of London involves booking offices and I don't seriously believe they are going to. And as for all nonsense about being redeployed to the platform, don't buy it. Only two kinds of staff left on this...

Because it's still one of only three direct trains to Liverpool. (The 08:38 and 21:37 being the others) So just about everyone on that train has snapped up a cheap advance. The 06:23 was similar in that it was the only direct one to Glasgow. Now that there is a full Anglo-Scottish timetable...

Good. The amount of flows with advances these days is completely overboard. £12.50 for Anytime Day Return on a 72 mile round trip sounds reasonable enough to me.

Note that if you want to look at NFM64 fares to/from Group Stations, you have to enter the group code, as those fares won't be displayed if you use the individual station code

I've noticed a change Virgin has made to their advances from origins Northampton - Tring to Shrewsbury and a fair part of central Wales. The advances can no longer be booked via Crewe and Nantwich as "VWC & Connections" column has been reduced to one placeholder fare. Advances are only...

The booking office doesn't get told anything about ticketing. Usually because, with the recent cuts to station management, there's no-one there to do the telling.

More like shot themselves in the backside. Instead of altering the Any Permitted price to sit somewhere between the lowered Wolverton fare and the raised Bletchley fare, it's been left at the current price. They've unintentionally made travel from Wolverton a lot more popular, whether...

Main change on the Northampton line is Off-Peak Day Returns to Euston/Travelcard either rising or falling in order to even out the prices, which had become uneven after years of keeping the price down. Only thing is, Wolverton's fare will fall £4 to £19.50, and Milton Keynes Any Permitted fare...

On a related note. If St Modwen get their way, Wolverton Works will be completely razed to the ground. Not just the two derelict building, everything. https://www.facebook.com/futurewolverton I'm going along to this consultation tomorrow to raise my objections as not only will it cripple...

Of course, it depends what East Coast do on the way out, as they have one last Fares Round coming up. But I can see the price structure becoming more like Virgin's, with the Off-Peak dropping back to Super Off-Peak price and restrictions (unusable for four hours), while the Anytime price...

They already are through the roof, same as most long-distance Anytime fares