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01:59:38 on Mon, 1 Mar 2010, NM remarked:
The problem is that the AP ticket for that journey is valid either for
VT only (yes, I don't know how you are supposed to do the tails) or
"EastCoast and Connections". So you'd be travelling from Kings Cross in
any case.

FFS, you need to go to college now to buy a train ticket, WTF is it so
complex?

Because people apparently want to pay less than the Anytime fare, if
they can.

And to protect the revenue from walk-up tickets, that means putting some
kind of restriction on the cheaper tickets.

Restricting them to one ToC, and one named service, is a prime
candidate. The problem then, is that some journeys require the use of
more than one ToC - so they invent a ticket "with connections" (onto a
different ToC) at one or other end.

To try to keep things simpler (probably the reason) they don't offer
every possible combination of such tickets, so sometimes you'll find
that a longer trip such as London to Glasgow can only be done on the
major routings like ECML and WCML, rather than also up the Midland
mainline and via Sheffield/Leeds etc. (or even more obscure routes).
--
Roland Perry