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

[email protected] · March 2nd 10, 11:43 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Roland
Perry) wrote:

In message , at
17:45:21 on Mon, 1 Mar 2010, remarked:
The problem is lack of consistency. "and connections" covers far more
options with Virgin than with Cross Country for a start.

I wonder if your opinions are being coloured by experiences on the
XC route to Stansted? This used to be run by Central Trains, who
only had a very limited number of point-to-point AP fares. Maybe
A-XC, having inhertited these, have not embellished them (much or
at all).

Very much not coloured as far as I'm concerned. It might explain why XC
are being inconsistent, perhaps, but Central had through fares to Selly
Oak as they ran the Cross-City line in Brum too. XC must have made a
conscious decision to drop that validity.

Virgin-XC, on the other hand, seemed to be able to concoct
enormously complex trips (I've had one with four legs) using
"connections", even if some of the connecting legs were longer than
the VXC leg!

Oh, absolutely! A highly commendable can-do attitude. If you look at the
difference between a Cambridge-VWC destination advance fare and the
equivalent from Euston, Virgin are throwing in Cambridge-London for far
less than you can get it any other way.

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Colin Rosenstiel