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Colin Rosenstiel · September 26th 06, 11:19 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In article .com,
(Neil Williams) wrote:

Colin Rosenstiel wrote:

How many PTEs have an equivalent of the Network Card? I suppose
YP or Senior Railcard discounts are similar though in the latter case
many PTEs have higher discounts.

None that I can think of have a "loyalty card", though fares are
often highly-subsidised anyway.

I was thinking of pensioners.

Pah! The X5 is an evil attempt by Vermin through their ownership
of thetrainline to abstract traffic from though services operated by
Central Trains.

Nonsense. It's a commercially-operated express bus service that
fills in a very useful gap in the rail service. Where does it meet CT,
anyway? I can't think of anywhere it competes with them.

It does abstract from Bedford-Bletchley, but that's because that's
not a covenient service to many. When (I believe it's now a when) the
Bedford-Bletchley gets extended to MK Central that might well
change.

It attempts to abstract from Cambridge-Birmingham, despite Central
running through trains that take less time. Try looking up
Cambridge-Birmingham on the NRE web site some time.

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Colin Rosenstiel