Guildford to Farnborough Main / North price differences

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I was looking up tickets from Guildford to Farnborough stations tomorrow (Sunday) and was surprised to find that a full price off peak single to Farnborough North was £5.70 an anytime ticket to Farnborough Main via Woking was £5.60 Anytime and £5.50 off peak.

I use to think the price to Farnborough stations was the same. I would have expected the Farnborough North one to be the cheapest at least but not so.

 

[OwlMan]

Because the tickets are priced by different TOCs (GWR & SWT)

 

[kieron]

Both of the prices you quote are for tickets from Guildford to Farnborough Stations. The way I see it, you pay more for a less restrictive Any Permitted ticket than you do for a more restrictive Via Woking one. That seems perfectly reasonable to me.

 

[Bill Badger]

The any permitted Farnborough to Woking ticket is usually cheaper than the more restrictive via Woking one!!

For example:

Off-peak day return (any permitted) £5.80
Off-peak day return (via Woking) £8.80
Super Off-peak day return (via Woking) £6.70

Annoyingly the ticket machines at Farnborough Main only offer the via Woking variant

 

[yorkie]

I use to think the price to Farnborough stations was the same. I would have expected the Farnborough North one to be the cheapest at least but not so.

Are you using NRE? If so, this is a confusing site and it's best avoided where practicable.

Try this website: http://www.brfares.com/#!fares?orig=GLD&dest=0260

It shows that the tickets are issued to "Farnborough Stations" and it also shows who sets the fares.

For singles it is cheaper to purchase route: "via Woking", but for returns it's a rather complicated situation. This complexity is consistent with railway ticketing pricing generally. There is often no logic to it. As is often the case, the relevant companies have their own policies and pricing strategies and this leads to anomalies and inconsistencies (in fact, they are not allowed to collude to raise fares or worsen choice for customers, though they can co-operate for the benefit of passengers)

 

[FenMan]

Both of the prices you quote are for tickets from Guildford to Farnborough Stations. The way I see it, you pay more for a less restrictive Any Permitted ticket than you do for a more restrictive Via Woking one. That seems perfectly reasonable to me.

There's a similar situation one station up the NDL, Blackwater, but in reverse. The Any Permitted off peak ticket (priced by GWR) to very popular destination is cheaper than the route-restricted alternative (priced by SWT).

 

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Both of the prices you quote are for tickets from Guildford to Farnborough Stations. The way I see it, you pay more for a less restrictive Any Permitted ticket than you do for a more restrictive Via Woking one. That seems perfectly reasonable to me.

Ah well National Rail Enquiries App doesn't say on the first screen whatvthe ticket restrictions are. They could do a lot more to improve the app but when in doing the so called improvements, they might remove the ability to go bavk time for the same day, providing its not gone midnight.

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Are you using NRE? If so, this is a confusing site and it's best avoided where practicable.

Try this website: http://www.brfares.com/#!fares?orig=GLD&dest=0260

It shows that the tickets are issued to "Farnborough Stations" and it also shows who sets the fares.

For singles it is cheaper to purchase route: "via Woking", but for returns it's a rather complicated situation. This complexity is consistent with railway ticketing pricing generally. There is often no logic to it. As is often the case, the relevant companies have their own policies and pricing strategies and this leads to anomalies and inconsistencies (in fact, they are not allowed to collude to raise fares or worsen choice for customers, though they can co-operate for the benefit of passengers)

I was actually using the NRE app on my mobile. I use it rather a lot for simple lookup's. I was actually potentially going to Farnborough but in the end I went to Aldershot.

I probably don't use BR fares as often as I should.


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