Recent content by benk1342

Hi all, hoping for a bit of advice about apparent differentials in fares showing across different booking sites. The family and I are travelling Stevenage to Edinburgh on Wednesday 25 October - two adults and two children with a Family and Friends Railcard. Even though National Rail indicates...

Evening peak restrictions apply to the TfL Contactless fare, so the £16.50 applies only if you return outside those hours. The benefit of the London-WGC Off-Peak Carnet is that there is no evening peak restriction. As you say, we had a good run. Contactless in, Off Peak Carnet back will have to...

Thanks - it also looks a bit like this scheme was created without any awareness (at strategic level) that carnets already existed and covered everything they were setting out to achieve! 1624386507 Exactly. If the problem was that carnets: 1. Are not universally available 2. Are not “smart” 3...

I'd be curious to know what the rationale was for dropping the validity to 28 days from the traditional Carnet three months. @Haywain any insight you can offer?

And more expensive. But with carnets being withdrawn as redundant, we're left with no choice but to pay more.

All I wanted was for it not to be MORE EXPENSIVE than the carnets which have now been withdrawn. This is a bit ridiculous.

It is a carnet with a new name, worse price and less flexibility. But it's on a smart card - hooray!

Ah good spot - if they only withdraw the Peak Carnet, but leave the Off-Peak in place, then that may be an acceptable bodge.

As I dreaded, this represents an 18.5% price increase for two- or three-day-a-week commuters vs the existing carnet product from Welwyn Garden City to London Terminals. 1x Peak Carnet @ £8.60 + 1x Off-Peak Carnet @ 6.20 = £14.80 per day Flexi Season = £17.55 per day With no evening-peak...

For flows where carnets are currently very good value because an off-peak carnet is valid for the train home in the “evening peak”, it will be a big shame and quite a shock to many commuters if the product is withdrawn and replaced with something more expensive!

Hi, can anyone advise how busy the 0706 Oakham to Peterborough service is on a weekday during non-Covid times? Is it rammed? Are there plenty of seats? Something in between?

Was inspired by the recent thread about New Cross. Just checked every split point.

Thanks - can anyone say (anecdotally) whether I am likely to encounter any issues from staff on trains that don't stop? For my travel patterns this combination comes out about the same price as carnets + PAYG, and I'd rather avoid carnets if I can.

Can someone confirm that I am ok splitting an annual season from Welwyn Garden City (WGC) to London using an annual WGC-OKL (£1748) + an annual Z1-4 Travelcard (£2020)? I know this is valid under NRCoT 14.2, but am I likely to have any issues, or is splitting annual seasons like this common?

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