Exmouth to West Somerset Railway Explorer with Disabled Persons Railcard

Evening all,

Tomorrow, a friend and I shall be travelling from Exmouth to the West Somerset Railway, each of us holding a Disabled Person's Railcard. BRFares gives an excellent-value through ticket for just £13.94(sic). The undiscounted price is £53.40. Does this ticket really exist at this price, and if so, can I get it online, as I don't trust this price to be available at Exmouth ticket office?

http://www.brfares.com/#expert?orig=EXM&dest=K938&rlc=DIS

Well, for some reason it looks like a railcard is offering you a 75% discount on the Explorer fare on brfares. I doubt the ticket office has that kind of sale on when you get there, however!

The ticket issuing system should only discount the rail portion of the journey. Its £17 for a "disabled" day rover in the WSR, it doesn't mention what criteria the fare requires. Has your acquaintance a national bus pass for the 28 from Taunton to Bishops Lydiyard ?

Aside, the add on looks a bit of a mess, if you put in Taunton to West Somerset Railway you get a £24 price or a £39 price. Codes EDA and HAC. But if you it as a further away station add on you get codes WAP and WAD.....

Try buy it at Exmouth and see what you get !

Exmouth could only sell the Away Day at £38.40, so I bought a CDR EXM to Taunton for £9.50, a BDR TAU - Minehead £3.95 (cheaper than the on-bus £5.40 return Taunton to Bishops Lydiard) and at Bishops Lydiard was sold a return to Minehead for £16.50 with the Disabled Persons Railcard. All x2, as we are both too young for an English National Concessionary Bus Pass (and neither of us qualify for one on any other grounds). Total cost was £29.95 each from Exmouth to Minehead and back.

Outward haulage on the WSR was by steam, and return by DMU class 115, with declassified 1st class: the seating on the latter was luxurious compared with anything on offer on GWR now! Now I'm looking for a class 117: as I recall the plush deeply upholstered 1st class 2+1 seating of the class 117 was the most comfortable I have ever travelled in, and haven't done it since the class 165 and 166 Turbos took over the local services in and out of Paddington Station, where I worked in the late 1980s and 1990s.

lightbulb said:

BRFares gives an excellent-value through ticket for just £13.94(sic). The undiscounted price is £53.40. Does this ticket really exist at this price

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Sorry for the confusion; that was a bug in BR Fares; now fixed. The Disabled Railcard doesn't actually give any discount on the Explorer Fare and there is an error in the data for "add-on" fares which makes the Away Day more expensive with railcard discount than without! Someone from the West Somerset Railway should probably speak to GWR about that..