Arthur Figgis wrote:
On 19 Oct 2006 09:12:52 -0700, "Mizter T" wrote:

Full DfT press release via the Government News Network:
http://www.gnn.gov.uk/environment/fu...leaseID=235656
or via shorturl http://tinyurl.com/y8sm6v

"There are over 330 rail stations within the Travelcard zones, and at
present each of 97,300 different station-to-station combinations has
its own set of fares."

Does this add up?

snip


So what am I failing to see? Perhaps an effect of the zonal fares
already in place, so (say) Waddon, West Croydon and Carshalton
Beeches (etc) don't have their own sets of fares?


The way the fares system currently works is that each station is either
"fully-priced", in which case it has fares to local stations and *every*
other "fully-priced" station on the network, or it's a related station,
which will only have local fares, and for anything else you'll need to
look at the appropriate "fully-priced" station.

So, for example, Birmingham and Norwich are "fully-priced" stations, but
Highbridge (Somerset) is a related station, priced to/from Bridgwater,
so if you were looking for a fare from Birmingham to Highbridge, you'd
*actually* look at Birmingham to Bridgwater.

If, on the other hand, you were looking for a fare from Highbridge to
Yatton, you'd look it up under Highbridge itself, as that's a purely
local journey.

So it's entirely possible that the figure of 97,300 combinations is
correct but it'd take a while to check

HTH,

Barry