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Oh, there's surely no inclining to be done, it's satisfied all right. That it is satisfied defies common sense, but that particular commodity is played fast and loose with around here.

Disingenuousness does you no favours (the rules of Advance tickets are also simple and unambiguous, and I'd be genuinely astonished if you didn't understand my point perfectly well, but I will stray off-topic no longer). Congrats on your impending 20k post milestone by the way.

At the risk of being difficult (as if... :lol:), and in light of discussions on other topics, doesn't the "common-sense" interpretation and "spirit" of 19(c) concern the point at which a particular split happens? That is, what's the "common-sense" relevance of using a season at a completely...

Advances as they are currently configured suit me fine. By all means have a ticket type that is less restrictive than this and allows stopping and starting short, but price it appropriately and don't expect those of us who use Advances correctly to subsidise those who don't. I actually care not...

To my mind the Far North is much better from a little over 0 feet than from 30,000.

This thread is ridiculous. It is overwhelmingly likely in my opinion that Mum was mistaken, but this is nonetheless pretty much irrelevant to anything of substance. And as for a siege mentality in favour of crew, you're having a laugh. The only siege mentality on this forum is that fighting...

Doesn't sound like it's increasing. Victoria has been like that for as long as I can remember.

In my experience, the assumption that "time is money", specifically that trading more money for less time is a good deal, often does not hold. This may even be the case when one is travelling for work. I used to fairly regularly traverse the country by train when I could have flown. If I...

None of this endorsing the ticket malarkey matters a jot if staff are later using their "judgment". If tickets can be endorsed uniformly and indisputably, that's a different issue. On-platform ticket validators might be good for this and other issues, but then we'd probably be awash with...

Irrefutable.

I would think it more likely the OP is being imprecise.

Whether people are chancers or not (some are, but many aren't) isn't really the issue. Nor does the genuine unawareness (underlined or italicised as much as you like) really change anything. "I didn't know" is the defence of the four year-old. Much of the issue stems from certain members of...

Do you mean consistency in the sense that the rule is applied universally, or do you actually mean that it isn't applied at all? I know which one I prefer. Leaving aside the "caveat" of not having enough time before the train arrives, I find this thinking bizarre. People who walk past...

The conclusion is inarguable, but I doubt the posters offer any support to the case. Given that "Full Open Single" is not a ticket type, one can hardly claim precision or unambiguity. Relying on "advertised policy" in this way would seem shaky.

Aspatria?

I grew up in Newport; bilingual announcements have been standard for quite a long time, despite the proportion of Welsh speakers in the local population being in the single digits percent. (It's higher now amongst the population since elements of Welsh in education have, I understand, become...

Practicality is not in dispute. I personally think it's unnecessary and undesirable for TOCs to dish out compensation to reservation holders who could be able to use their reservations, simply because "I got here first" punters without reservations have occupied their seats. I would also...

I don't recall asking for an ethical justification of the status quo - merely suggesting that it is (or rather, people are) a bit daft when a piece of paper stuck on the seat is a game-changer.

I should say that I'm not in favour of invisible reservations as a policy. Visible ones are obviously better, all else being equal. However, that's not always possible and I think in times of "irregular operations" it is reasonable for those without reservations (rather than those with) to be...

Sorry, but I'm getting a little irritated now. We all know the above, and simply repeating it doesn't help. I'm asking "why is this the case?" and you're saying "it's the case". So let me try one last time. WHY is it reasonable that someone with a valid reservation can't use it (in favour of...