Ticket costing less than its face value.

[amn140174]

I have just bought two single tickets from Durham to Manchester through the Transpenninexpress/sale.co.uk web site, nothing strange there I guess.....

But on the screen the price was £18.80 for two people with a disabled railcard discount, so guessing it was £9.40 each.

Now my card has been billed correctly for £18.80 but each ticket has a fare of £11.55 printed on them totaling £23.10.

Might just be me being strange but I find this odd.

 

[Lampshade]

I get this whenever I use the student discount, it's because the ticket itself would cost that normally, they are just applying the discount to the transaction as opposed to changing the price of the tickets.

 

[googolplex]

Southern do it how you would expect - when I bought the 90% off advance tickets for Earth Day (or whatever it was) they were printed with the price of £0.75 with a discount field on the ticket showing "90%".
Would this not be a something TPE could use to avoid confusion (people thinking they've been overcharged etc)?

 

[Max]

Similarly when Scotrail offered 50% off to their 'advance' members, the full price was printed on the ticket but the receipt showed the price with the discount.

 

[Dolive22]

I thought that was illegal. I am pretty certain that one of the old acts still requires tickets to show their price on them. Doesn't make any difference, just strange.

 

[John @ home]

I thought that was illegal. I am pretty certain that one of the old acts still requires tickets to show their price on them. Doesn't make any difference, just strange.

It seems that the provision in Section 6 of the Regulation of Railways Act 1889 was repealed by the 1993 Act.

Passenger ticket to have fare printed thereon.
6.From and after a date to be fixed by order of the Board of Trade, and subject to such exceptions, if any, as may be allowed by such order, every passenger ticket issued by any railway company in the United Kingdom shall bear upon its face, printed or written in legible characters, the fare chargeable for the journey for which such ticket is issued, and any railway company issuing any passenger ticket in contravention of the provisions of this section shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding [level 1 on the standard scale] for every ticket so issued, to be recovered on summary conviction.

Amendments
S. 6 repealed (E.W.S.) (1.4.1994) by 1993 c. 43, ss. 150(1)(o), 152(1)(3), Sch. 12 para. 1, Sch.14; S.I. 1994/571, art. 5

http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/conten...061371&ActiveTextDocId=1061371&filesize=45573

 

[Dolive22]

That'll teach me to pay more attention to the notes.

I thought I was the only SLD fan on here. Are you a pro or just a well equipped amateur?

 

[John @ home]

I thought I was the only SLD fan on here. Are you a pro or just a well equipped amateur?

As they keep telling us to say, I am not a lawyer!

 

[metrocammel]

If you were delayed, and applied for a refund, I wonder if they would calculate the refund from the face value, or the transaction value?