Recent content by Paul Kelly

That negative easement 703602 seems spurious; it looks like it applies to all journeys when the fare is routed ANY PERMITTED or dot? Maybe it is triggering an edge case or bug?

It maybe does, if you consider that these fares are implemented in such a badly bodged way that ignores all the existing mechanisms that exist in the fares database to combine multiple passengers onto one fare. There is no mechanism in the fares data to implement the concept that the price of...

It is not possible for journey planner-based systems to sell these since the electronic route restriction is set up to say that Ealing Common or West Acton must feature in the journey itinerary, yet these are London Underground stations and so don't feature in the timetable data that journey...

I did not know the old 4-week rule was applying to the quote date this year. Will update.

Both also reasonable suggestions, from the point of view of how TOCs or RDG might have better handled the situation. My post was coming more from the point of view of a former journey planner developer - since journey planners are not formally subject to accreditation and there are many grey...

I'm assuming this is correct as the same information has been posted by two sources, both of whom I'd consider reliable. I'm grateful for the clarification - to me it does not seem reasonable behaviour; my interpretation (which I implemented when programming some of this stuff in the FastJP...

Very interesting; thanks. So it's not such an immovable thing as we were supposing!

I think you may have misremembered; certainly since I have been interested in UK rail fares (around 15 years) it was traditionally always on the 2nd of January,

The price covers all passengers. I tried searching at a few different times and it does not look like Scotrail have set any availability for the fare, and since it's an advance it maybe means it is not purchasable in reality.

Looks like it would have been a much better decision to change at Reading, once it was clear you were going to miss the connection at Didcot. But hindsight is wonderful.

I thought it was clear from the discussion above, but the concept of a child Gold Card holder is not supposed to exist and therefore is not catered for anywhere.

I mean, a CHAGC-discounted ticket can be bought for anywhere in the Gold Card area - but the intention is that the child should always be accompanied by an adult Gold Card holder. Although as pointed out above, there may be some loopholes in the terms & conditions in this regard. The reason why...

That is a bookable option because the (adult) Gold Card holder can book a ticket for a child to accompany them when travelling on the route covered by their Gold Card, i.e. when they don't need to book a ticket for themselves. Normally it is not permitted for a a ticket with the CHAGC (child...

Done.

I would hazard a guess the problem is with the "odd" Travelcard types that SWR use, since they have different CAPRI codes from the standard ODT (Off-Peak Day Travelcard) ticket type, where the code is BDY as CyrusWuff mentioned above. Sunday Out Travelcard is ticket type SUT, CAPRI code HYT...