anti-pacer
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A friend of mine is travelling from St Austell to London a week tomorrow and wants to travel First Class. She looked online and was quoted £269.**. I also found the same for the same journey at around 11am.
By fiddling around I managed to get this down to approx £125, travelling by XC to Bristol Temple Meads, and on to London via GWR. OK the journey was about an hour longer but for that saving she was over the moon. What's more she'll get two different offerings in First Class, rather than just one.
I split the tickets at Exeter and Bristol to achieve this saving, but I noticed it's actually more expensive to travel from St Austell to Newton Abbott than it is to Exeter. The advance I found to Exeter as £21.70, whereas to Newton Abbott it was just over £50. OK it was an Anytime ticket but even so, if you're travelling on a specific train that shouldn't matter.
Also, between Bristol and London I noticed that most (if not all) of the advance tickets were the same cost from that one station and London, but a difference of about £22 depending on which Bristol station you travelled from. Parkway being £22 more expensive than Temple Meads.
Do you think the fares system needs changing or do you think it works well?
By fiddling around I managed to get this down to approx £125, travelling by XC to Bristol Temple Meads, and on to London via GWR. OK the journey was about an hour longer but for that saving she was over the moon. What's more she'll get two different offerings in First Class, rather than just one.
I split the tickets at Exeter and Bristol to achieve this saving, but I noticed it's actually more expensive to travel from St Austell to Newton Abbott than it is to Exeter. The advance I found to Exeter as £21.70, whereas to Newton Abbott it was just over £50. OK it was an Anytime ticket but even so, if you're travelling on a specific train that shouldn't matter.
Also, between Bristol and London I noticed that most (if not all) of the advance tickets were the same cost from that one station and London, but a difference of about £22 depending on which Bristol station you travelled from. Parkway being £22 more expensive than Temple Meads.
Do you think the fares system needs changing or do you think it works well?