London Banter - View Single Post - Through ticketing from tube to rail [part 2]

[email protected] · March 1st 10, 03:49 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Roland
Perry) wrote:

In message , at
09:00:39 on Mon, 1 Mar 2010, remarked:
I'm curious to know what would happen if I was delayed on my way to
Euston. If, say, I boarded at Queen's Park, and took a London
Overground service - then I'd be travelling on a TOC service, and
covered by the NRCoC.

But what if I got the Underground, in plenty of time, but still got
held up? Do the conditions still apply? How about if the ticket
specifically started at Queen's Park[2]?

[2] I'm not actually travelling from there. But I did once buy a
saver ticket from Queen's Park (London) to Queen's Park (Glasgow)

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.

VT sell through Advance tickets with reservations only on their
services, e.g. Cambridge to Selly Oak.

Huh? Since when did VT have a through service on that route...

There's a VWC *and connections* ticket though.

The ticket they sell is an Advance from Cambridge to Selly Oak. You can't
buy a Cross-Country Advance from Cambridge to Selly Oak. The Cross Country
MD recognised when i saw him recently that wasn't too clever. ;-)

Trouble is, Cross Country don't, so VT is often cheaper and not
infrequently faster end-to-end.

You need to split the ticketing at New St, if you want an XC AP
ticket.

Which costs more. CC claim most of their passengers travel on other TOCs
trains as well as theirs. An own goal there, not offering Advance tickets.

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Colin Rosenstiel