ivorytoast28
Member
So I've often wondered how they actually allocate the ticket money and get it right...
Obviously for advance tickets or anytime tickets with a specified operator it is pretty straightforward but what about when multiple operators operate on the same route.
For example: An anytime return from Newcastle to Morpeth/Edinburgh can use Crosscountry, LNER or Northern (and soon TPE too) and I've regularly used all 3 and only northern often check tickets during the journey leg to Morpeth and often XC and LNER don't all the way to Edinburgh.
This is even more so the case with "&connections" advance tickets. An LNER advance London to Sheffield via Doncaster allows the connection to be made with TPE, XC or Northern and even though it may suggest a specific one, that is rarely the one I end up taking and have never had any objection. Has all the money here not just gone to LNER regardless?
All these tickets can be bought on any other TOC website anyway even if it is in a completely different area of the country.
Obviously for advance tickets or anytime tickets with a specified operator it is pretty straightforward but what about when multiple operators operate on the same route.
For example: An anytime return from Newcastle to Morpeth/Edinburgh can use Crosscountry, LNER or Northern (and soon TPE too) and I've regularly used all 3 and only northern often check tickets during the journey leg to Morpeth and often XC and LNER don't all the way to Edinburgh.
This is even more so the case with "&connections" advance tickets. An LNER advance London to Sheffield via Doncaster allows the connection to be made with TPE, XC or Northern and even though it may suggest a specific one, that is rarely the one I end up taking and have never had any objection. Has all the money here not just gone to LNER regardless?
All these tickets can be bought on any other TOC website anyway even if it is in a completely different area of the country.
