Mutant Lemming
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Would an anytime single (@£1.50) from Pontefract Baghill to Pontefract Tanshelf be valid to travel from Pontefract Baghill to Moorthorpe ?
It's the shortest route between those two stations so no easement would make a difference.I believe so - that's my interpretation anyway - though it's bonkers.
Expect a negative easement coming up shortly
I seem to recall that being mentioned at a meet.True, they'd have to re-route the tickets.
East Coast are unhappy at Darton-Doncaster being too cheap for the shortest route, so took over the Any Permitted flow, and are jumping up the price at each pricing round and the good value fare is now relegated to route: via Meadowhall.
That's the sort of tricks they can get up to, but they don't like the effort of doing that, so they usually do negative easements. Even though, in some cases negative easements have no contractual effect!
There is not a Pontefract Baghill to PontefracT tanshelf available - it is a Pontefract Stations to Pontefract Tanshelf - the shortest route being from Monkhill to Tanshelf.
Or delete the fare altogether. Add a Pontefract Monkhill-Tanshelf ticket, and only offer "Pontefract Stations" tickets for longer journeys.It's the shortest route between those two stations so no easement would make a difference.
But they may well introduce a higher fare at the next NFM
I'd agree, replace the fare with Monkhill-Tanshelf. I think a fare from Monkhill-Tanshelf is needed, seeing as they have an hourly direct service, taking a couple of minutes, for some journeys within the town I can see the train actually is the sensible mode here.Or delete the fare altogether. Add a Pontefract Monkhill-Tanshelf ticket, and only offer "Pontefract Stations" tickets for longer journeys.
There are apparently no fixed links defined between stations in Pontefract, but Pontefract Baghill is less than a mile from the two other stations. While Pontefract isn't flat (hence the station names, I suppose), I can't see the train ever being a sensible way to go from one station to the other.
So if you boarded a train at Pontefract Baghill and asked for a single to Tanshelf what would you be issued with ?
You'll be told you are mad and get off the train.
Seriously is anyone actually suggesting getting the train for this journey or are we only talking about using it as a loophole?
The walk in pontefract is steep and not particularly short, so for some people it may not be possible.
http://www.wymetro.com/uploadedFile...ravel/maps_and_guides/Wakefield_Route_Map.pdf
And of course none of these buses are a viable solution, so let's just go via Moorthorpe
It just makes so not sense at all, to have to walk in Wakefield, for a train ticket that looks to avoid walking in Pontefract.
I expect "minor adjustments" to be made to this fare by Friday morning, basing it on previous occasions when anomalies have been publicly highlighted here.
In peace
Adam