Railcard application data

[linusnorton]

Hi,

Sorry, this is a bit of a technical one.I was just looking at some of the details of the senior railcard an I noted that like many others it has this statement:

Discounts are not available on tickets for travel on morning Peak period services, if a journey both starts and ends within the London & South East area, Monday to Friday; except on public holidays.

Looking through the data I can't really see that it is enforced anywhere. The SDS ticket type has a discount category of 1 which says status 006 (SRN) can have a discount of 34%.

There is no information in the railcard geography for SRN.

The SRN restriction code (R6) does have a time band restriction that specifies a minimum fare must be applied before 10am but there is no minimum fare set for SDS and senior railcards.

Is there some crucial bit of data I'm missing that links railcard application of certain ticket types to specific locations?

Many thanks,

Linus

 

[Paul Kelly]

No, nothing in the data - it all has to be specially implemented by journey planners and they all have slightly different interpretations of the various edge cases!

 

[linusnorton]

Brilliant.... I'll probably just use the NGC railcard geography and build some rules around that

 

[James H]

Assuming NGC = Gold Card, then surely the Network Railcard geography would be a closer match, given the Gold Card's recent extensions beyond the old Network SouthEast territory into London Midland and Greater Anglia's regions?

 

[linusnorton]

Ah yes, you are correct

 

[yorkie]

And don't forget the easement for GTR's Gatwick *cough* "Express"