Trivia: Stations where the ticket to/from there shows a different name

[DavidGrain]

Although if you read some of the plans, Bordesley will be closed to allow for new chords to be built from the Camp Hill line towards Moor Street.

I suspect usage of Bordesley is somehow inflated by some dodgy characters buying tickets there for the sole purpose of entering Snow Hill/Moor Street when the barriers are in operation (likewise for Five Ways at New Street)

With a normal service of one train per week, this hardly seems worth the effort with no return train.

As for the new chords, I shall believe that when we see the construction gangs move in. We were told that access from the Camp Hill line to Moor Street was essential as there was no capacity for local trains on this line to get into New Street. Yet the plans for reopenning of three stations and a possible new station have just been announced without mention of the chords.

 

[Paul Kelly]

The BR Fares site is useful to show what is printed on a ticket. Enter your stations and press the query fares button. The response will show both the four digit National Location Code and the station name as printed on tickets when limited to 16 characters as per the old APTIS style format.

Not quite. The response you see shows the official 16-character name of the station in the fares database. But you need to click through to an individual ticket to see what is printed on the ticket. E.g. Sandwell & Dudly to Jewellery Quarter:
http://www.brfares.com/#!fares?orig=SAD&dest=JEQ shows SANDWELL & DUDLY and JEWELLERY QUARTR
However http://www.brfares.com/#faredetail?orig=SAD&dest=JEQ&rte=201&tkt=SDS shows SANDWELL + DUDLY and JEWELLRY QUARTER, which is what is actually printed on the ticket.

The only exception to this I have come across is some Parkeon TVMs before they were updated to print in the new ticket format, when they incorrectly used the fares database abbreviations instead of the ticket ones. There is an old thread about this on the forum somewhere.

 

[infobleep]

I was surprised one evening standing on Kidderminster station to hear the announcement and see the display say Bordesley as one of the calling points. Normally Bordesley has only one train per week. I realised that there must be a football match on at St Andrews that evening. At some time in the future, Borsesley will be served by the West Midlands Metro and be covered by the 'City Hop' fare as it is within the Middle Ring Road.

My friends at school in the late 1950s used to tell me that a child's single from Snow Hill to Bordesley at 1 1/2d was a better deal than a 2d platform ticket but that was no use to me as I used to get a train in the opposite direction.

That would be an interesting trivia thread. Railway tickets cheaper than platform tickets. However I don't know how readily avilable the data would be and how easy it would be to look up. Also which year does one choose?

What do tickets to Cobham & Stoke d'Abernon say on them?

 

[John @ home]

What do tickets to Cobham & Stoke d'Abernon say on them?

In the old format, credit card sized tickets say COBHAM & STOKE D.

 

[318266]

What do tickets to Cobham & Stoke d'Abernon say on them?

Now they say COBHAM + STOKE D, according to BRFares