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The fare structure can't get a lot simpler than it is now. Just single and return anytime fares, none of which I think currently have any route restrictions. And in fact they are already based on a zonal structure complete with the behaviour that fares into Cardiff and back out again can cost...

I do not see how there can be any obligation to change at Abercynon so long as the tickets remain routed "any permitted" because a through train between origin and destination station on a ticket is always a permitted route. However, reading the NRCoT, breaking at Cardiff probably isn't valid...

I suppose it depends if people getting off to avoid having to go the long way round to Llandaff, Cathays and maybe Queen Street balance those getting on.

Yes. Mine too. And even if staff aren't actually instructed that such a flag automatically indicates an offence, there will likely be some who take it upon themselves to form such a conclusion anyway.

So far as I've seen the Aberdare & Merthyr trains rarely if ever run as 4 car trains these days so maybe not much of a problem. I don't believe they are allowed beyond Pontypridd but can run between Rhymney and Penarth. Pairs of 153s have run on the Coryton Line in the past when it hasn't...

I agree that anyone actually indulging in pay-when-challenged is indeed likely to buy their ticket shortly before inspection. But I believe that at least with some operators tickets are flagged if purchased after departure from the origin station even if it was several stops ago, and I'm pretty...

And...er...perhaps ask for clarification on a web forum where you're likely to get the right answer?

I've wondered about this. I can see that it's not helpful in preventing pay-when-challenged if a passenger can just say "Ah but I actually got on after I bought the ticket". On the other hand as the rules currently stand, one has the perfect right to start short on many tickets - there's no...

Also family railcards?

You'd think, but (not on GWR) I was told exactly that by a guard. (Who was going down the carriage excessing people with perfectly valid tickets but didn't manage it with me).

The problem with that is of course when, as in the original post, they look the wrong thing up and claim that it supports their view. Another one I just can't understand is the view that when a passenger is travelling on the itinerary their ticket was purchased with, if there is a problem with...

Just for contract, the one time I used one recently I was told that I needed to contact the relevant TOC directly and given not just the phone number but the series of buttons to press to get straight through to a real person.

And if they can't look it up or there isn't time, then they should just let the passenger through. After all if it's such an obscure ticket that they haven't seen it before, it's hardly going to be a big issue if they get it wrong and allow someone through that they shouldn't have. Wow. That...

And before someone suggests that you can't expect staff to know all the ticket validity codes, no, you can't, but you should expect them to know how the system works and only reject a ticket if they know or have looked up the validity code.

When I bought e-tickets to travel round Czechia with Česke drahy a couple of years ago the accompanying information suggested that I write the ticket code down on a piece of paper just in case my phone ran out of battery. This was for flexible tickets, not ones only valid on a given train. Well...

I see quite a few families on trains when I travel. Presumably they either don't have access to a car or choose the train anyway. On another matter, I'm not so impressed with this (from the TfW web site) For those who can't read the image, the "headline" quotes a price of £4.80, the table...

I didn't have any problem getting on the right train, but if I remember correctly the platforms weren't announced very far in advance so I was a little concerned that it might go wrong. Usually when I am going for an infrequent service the platform I'll get a lot more notice of the platform. As...

A few years ago I did Prague to Munich on the Alex train and the cheapest way was a three way split - one ticket to the stop before the border, another across the border, then after that I used a German 9 Euro ticket. I accidentally showed the wrong ticket to the CD guard so it was obvious what...

I've done it all the way, changing onto the SNCF sleeper to Paris at Latour. Scenery was very good on the Spanish side. Unfortunately it was dark by the time the sleeper left but I believe it's pretty good on that side too. No doubt it depends on the time of year but when I did it, booking...

Was that the one based on the local elections and making some rather dubious assumptions? (Including that Scotland will vote exactly the same way as in the last general election, and that people will vote for independents and minor parties in the general election in the same way they did in the...