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Topic: A completely different question.....why does it cots more to (Read 2864 times)
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Nick
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Why does it cots more to get to Bristol by train than to Cardiff, when its the same train that runs the service, and it calls at Bristol anyway? Why on earth should it cost more to go less distance?  |
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Graham Ellis
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You're talking from where, Nick? Trowbridge?
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Nick
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Yeah...it's the same journey, same train, you go the saem route, you even stop off at bristol....yet it costs more to stop at Bristol than at cardiff....(it used to....)
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Graham Ellis
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Yeah...it's the same journey, same train, you go the saem route, you even stop off at bristol....yet it costs more to stop at Bristol than at cardiff....(it used to....)
There are some mad pricings around ... it also costs more from Trowbridge to Bristol than from Melksham to Bristol via Trowbridge. I can't answer your direct question, except to say that the system itself if so complex and full of anachronisms that it's in disrepute. There's usually nothing to stop you buying a ticket for a longer journey than the one you're making ;-) |
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Dawn
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[There's usually nothing to stop you buying a ticket for a longer journey than the one you're making ;-)
Except officious staff that question you! |
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Graham Ellis
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How true that is, Dawn ... and there are other example too wher one feels that there's an assumption you're trying to buck the system.
I feel criminalised by the way that First Great Western have put up threatening signs, and we had a customer the other week who's train from Melksham was cancelled and I ran her up to Swindon to make the connection. Barriers refused her ticket; I really do not like to see law abiding people having their integrity quesioned.
Yes - I know there are fare dodging problems, but isn't there a better solution than setting up a system where the law abiding passenger is considered guilty until he/she proves herself innocent?
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Dawn
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There's also problems when the ticket seller dosn't come and sell any tickets between Melksham and Swindon. You are then treated like a criminal if you try to buy one at Swindon or on a train going onwards from Swindon. There's also an additonal problem of buying a ticket on a train from Swindon that the ticket sellers can't find tickets from Melksham on their machines! (Just for information in case you might need it one day it's code 0035 (for Melksham to London), but I don't really think it's our job to tell them!)
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Graham Ellis
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There's also problems when the ticket seller dosn't come and sell any tickets between Melksham and Swindon. You are then treated like a criminal if you try to buy one at Swindon or on a train going onwards from Swindon. There's also an additonal problem of buying a ticket on a train from Swindon that the ticket sellers can't find tickets from Melksham on their machines! (Just for information in case you might need it one day it's code 0035 (for Melksham to London), but I don't really think it's our job to tell them!)
There are time that I really wonder whether First really want our business. I think at times they'r a bit confused as to whether they do or not - and clearly the current service of two trains a day, (only one a day if you're looking at London to Melksham jurneys!) they don't get enough practise at selling tickets. Dawn - I don't know if you've seen our new pledge page at http://www.savethetrain.org.uk/pledge.html which is going fully live in the next few days - calling for people to support the draft timetable for next year that First HAVE validates, with 6 trains each way daily. After the 07:17 there would no longer be a gap to 19:11 - extra trains would run at 08:24, 09:28, 11:17, 12:38, 14:17, 15:38, 17:08 and 18:21 - starting to make it look much like the proper service that would ne useful (and used) by our town of 24000 |
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Dawn
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Hadn't seen page but have now looked and signed. Thanks
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Nick
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I know there are fare dodging problems, but isn't there a better solution than setting up a system where the law abiding passenger is considered guilty until he/she proves herself innocent?
Perhaps if they actually USED thier conductors and ticket barriers then that problme would be solved...80% of the time, you don't get seen by a conductor, and THE ticket barriers are left open...
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