You are supposed to fill in the travel diary so that on-train staff checking tickets can see where you are going (though they rarely bother) but while they encourage you to send it in, it isn't compulsory so I don't think it is used directly to apportion the revenue.Isn't that why you're supposed to fill in that travel diary and return it at the end of you pass's validity so they can split the revenue from the pass according to your actual usage?
Not everyone wants to travel first class...£796 for an All Line Rover instead. What a bargain
Edit:
The RDG have just published a statement
https://twitter.com/RailDeliveryGrp/status/1159052759653634048
Doesn't say why the membership has been ended.
What are you on about?Sorry if I've misunderstood something here but whoever's decided that TOC's will no longer accept interail passes is stupid - that's gonna put far more pressure on the airlines! Yes I've never been up in the air before but I've seen programmes and the news enough times.
If this is true, RDG are lying, which I think would be a very serious state of affairs. Surely they are not lying, are they? Can anyone get a definitive answer?I read it as not, especially via that link. Which says ferry companies and eurostar will continue but our operators will not.
That's still ludicrously expensive. I'm in Norway on an InterRail as I type this and I would not be doing this trip if the cost was that much!Not everyone wants to travel first class...
£526 standard class
Has the Rail Delivery Group ever done a single thing that was useful? Even their TV "spokesman" comes over normally as a complete waffler.
For visitors, the correct point of comparison would be a Britrail ticket though, which isn't quite as expensive as an ALR for domestic travellers.That's still ludicrously expensive. I'm in Norway on an InterRail as I type this and I would not be doing this trip if the cost was that much!
Why does it matter where I’m going on such a pass? As long as it is valid for that country, date and class of travel is all that matters. It is frankly an utter waste of time.You are supposed to fill in the travel diary so that on-train staff checking tickets can see where you are going (though they rarely bother) but while they encourage you to send it in, it isn't compulsory so I don't think it is used directly to apportion the revenue.
If the statement from.RDG is true then they were pushed out, albeit because of their own choices.It's interesting the BBC headline describes Britain as being "pushed" out of Interrail, when it seems like it's RDG's choice to do so.
The (continued) cynic in me suggests the BBC is subtly pushing a rhetoric on something...
Course it doesn't. RDG are mendacious.
Not everyone wants to travel first class...
£526 standard class
My thoughts exactly Ive known relations buy Britrail passes but i don't think I've ever seen an Interail pass in the uk.Lots of indignation here but how many of these passes are actual sold?
My thoughts exactly Ive known relations buy Britrail passes but i don't think I've ever seen an Interail pass in the uk.
Guilty. Last year, I combined two short trips of a week each on interrail. One in the UK, one to Croatia. But I must admit that it's maybe not that frequent. First time I showed it to a guard on a Virgin Trains, the guard flipped it a few times, and then gave it back with a blank questioning stare. Really felt as if he didn't understand what I gave him, but that he suspected it was valid and 'let me off' as he didn't want to embarrass himself for not understanding.
My thoughts exactly Ive known relations buy Britrail passes but i don't think I've ever seen an Interail pass in the uk.
I suspect that the number used are so small that nobody will noticeIt never ceases to amaze me the rail industry's ability to shoot itself in the foot.
This will only be bad for the tourism industry and won't win it any friends in the provinces.
I suspect that the number used are so small that nobody will notice