LNER not offering super off-peak from Edinburgh to Inverkeithing

[MrJeeves]

Hi all,

Trying to buy an Edinburgh to Inverkeithing super off peak return for today, using to start short at Dalmeny.

Trainline offers the ticket, but only as an e-ticket, and LNER only offers the normal off-peak return.

Any ideas why this might be?

 

[Class800]

Yes the fare setter is Scotrail. They have restrictions on issuing of super off peaks. Smart card or m tickets only o believe

 

[Haywain]

and LNER only offers the normal off-peak return.

LNER cannot sell this ticket as it cannot fulfil tickets to Scotrail smartcards and does not support the sale of mTickets.

 

[MrJeeves]

Yes the fare setter is Scotrail. They have restrictions on issuing of super off peaks. Smart card or m tickets only o believe

Crikey, I didn't expect that...

Unfortunate that ScotRail have taken this approach as opposed to standard eTickets and simply not fulfilling super off-peak to paper, but it is what it is.

I ended up just paying the extra pennies for normal off peak instead.

 

[ainsworth74]

Unfortunate that ScotRail have taken this approach as opposed to standard eTickets and simply not fulfilling super off-peak to paper, but it is what it is.

ScotRail have been remarkably opposed to embracing modern ticketing methods. The awful method that are mTickets are quite a recent innovation on ScotRail, indeed about the same time that most other TOCs were happily embracing eTickets ScotRail were only just introducing mTickets. They'll catch up, eventually, but I do wish Transport Scotland would get them to pull their finger out and get with the program!

 

[swt_passenger]

ScotRail have been remarkably opposed to embracing modern ticketing methods. The awful method that are mTickets are quite a recent innovation on ScotRail, indeed about the same time that most other TOCs were happily embracing eTickets ScotRail were only just introducing mTickets. They'll catch up, eventually, but I do wish Transport Scotland would get them to pull their finger out and get with the program!

Surely doing anything the same way as in England is politically impossible by now?