Good Friday - Bank Holiday?

[johntea]

Is today (Good Friday ) classed as a Bank Holiday?

I've just bought a ticket from Stevenage to London but the ticket machine didn't automatically bring up the 'Super Off Peak' option which is apparently valid at weekends and bank holidays. Once I selected 'other ticket types' it did show up.

 

[tgsh2011]

Is today (Good Friday ) classed as a Bank Holiday?

I've just bought a ticket from Stevenage to London but the ticket machine didn't automatically bring up the 'Super Off Peak' option which is apparently valid at weekends and bank holidays. Once I selected 'other ticket types' it did show up.

Good Friday is a bank holiday in England & Wales.

 

[yorkie]

Yes. The ticket is valid any time today.

And National Rail Enquiries says off peak tickets can be bought "at any time" ie, even at invalid times.

I suggest asking the operator of the machine (EC/FCC?) whether this is an error and whether this will be resolved

 

[alex17595]

We got sold a Anytime zones 1-2 Travel card onboard a Virgin train, but I got it changed to an off peak Z1-6 at Euston ticket office.
I don't think the machines realised it was off peak.

 

[johntea]

Thanks, just wondered in case I got challenged by any RPI or ticket barriers (not that I've bumped into any so far this evening!)

 

[Haywain]

Yes. The ticket is valid any time today.

And National Rail Enquiries says off peak tickets can be bought "at any time" ie, even at invalid times.

I suggest asking the operator of the machine (EC/FCC?) whether this is an error and whether this will be resolved

There is no error as the OP was able to buy the ticket.

 

[bakerstreet]

You could argue there is, if not an error, certainly an oversight. If at weekends the first screen only shows off peak tickets to avoid passengers paying more than they need then you would hope the error/oversight is that the weekend screen doesn't automatically appear on Bank Holidays. I would guess a significant number of passengers could easily have paid too much on Friday in this circumstance.

 

[Starmill]

We don't have this problem in Northernland
For example I arrive at Heaton Chapel and want to purchase a Super Off-Peak Day Return to Nottingham when the ticket office is closed. It won't be in the ticket machine whatever time of day or day of the week I go there!

 

[34D]

Good Friday is a public holiday not a bank holiday!

I hope for rail tickets that no RPI wishes to differentiate

 

[brompton rail]

According to http://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays Good Friday and Easter Monday are Bank Holidays in England, but only Good Friday is a Bank Holiday in Scotland.

 

[island]

Good Friday is a public holiday not a bank holiday!

I hope for rail tickets that no RPI wishes to differentiate

Can you explain the difference between public holidays and bank holidays for us?

 

[OwlMan]

Can you explain the difference between public holidays and bank holidays for us?

Public Holidays are those that are observed by custom & practice (Good Friday & Christmas Day) Bank Holidays are those that are mandated by various "Bank Holiday" Acts of Parliament

 

[LNW-GW Joint]

Public Holidays are those that are observed by custom & practice (Good Friday & Christmas Day) Bank Holidays are those that are mandated by various "Bank Holiday" Acts of Parliament

Life may have changed recently, but Good Friday was always a normal working day in the Potteries and maybe more widely in the Midlands.
We had the following Tuesday off instead.

 

[30907]

Life may have changed recently, but Good Friday was always a normal working day in the Potteries and maybe more widely in the Midlands.
We had the following Tuesday off instead.

And traditionally in West Yorks too - supposedly goes back to the days when t'mills worked Saturdays and t'boss didn't want to shut down and restart.
Still traces of this - in Shipley, for example, the shops and market open normally on Good Friday, but here in E Lancs it's quieter (as it used to be down South).

I wonder if it's because more owners here were devout Roman Catholics (or more workers?).

 

[Hadders]

I think it's a north/south thing.

Officially Good Friday as always been the official holiday but in the north it seemed to be customary in many businesses for Easter Tuesday to be substituted for Good Friday. My suspicion is that this helped industry as there was only one 'short' week.

In the south Good Friday has always been the holiday that was observed.

In more recent years (and I suspect because of the run down of historical northern industry) Good Friday seems to be observed nationally.

 

[TUC]

I think it's a north/south thing.

Officially Good Friday as always been the official holiday but in the north it seemed to be customary in many businesses for Easter Tuesday to be substituted for Good Friday. My suspicion is that this helped industry as there was only one 'short' week.

In the south Good Friday has always been the holiday that was observed.

In more recent years (and I suspect because of the run down of historical northern industry) Good Friday seems to be observed nationally.

Although it still isn't formally a holiday in Northern Ireland. Some businesses observe it, but that seems to be often UK-wide businesses simply adopting the approach they take elsewhere.

 

[bb21]

We got sold a Anytime zones 1-2 Travel card onboard a Virgin train, but I got it changed to an off peak Z1-6 at Euston ticket office.
I don't think the machines realised it was off peak.

Did you manage to get a refund for the difference?

 

[mm333]

And traditionally in West Yorks too - supposedly goes back to the days when t'mills worked Saturdays and t'boss didn't want to shut down and restart.
Still traces of this - in Shipley, for example, the shops and market open normally on Good Friday, but here in E Lancs it's quieter (as it used to be down South).

IIRC, until the early 2000s, West Yorkshire rail tickets had usual peak/off-peak restrictions on Good Friday but were off-peak all day on Easter Tuesday.

 

[Deerfold]

And traditionally in West Yorks too - supposedly goes back to the days when t'mills worked Saturdays and t'boss didn't want to shut down and restart.
Still traces of this - in Shipley, for example, the shops and market open normally on Good Friday, but here in E Lancs it's quieter (as it used to be down South).

I wonder if it's because more owners here were devout Roman Catholics (or more workers?).

Which is why, unusually in West Yorks we generally get a Saturday bus service instead of a Sunday service (though because I live in an area served by a Wyorks and a lancashire company I get a complicated service. Mon-Sat I get 7bph, Sunday I get 2.5bph. Good Friday I get 5.5bph).

 

[tractakid]

Which is why, unusually in West Yorks we generally get a Saturday bus service instead of a Sunday service (though because I live in an area served by a Wyorks and a lancashire company I get a complicated service. Mon-Sat I get 7bph, Sunday I get 2.5bph. Good Friday I get 5.5bph).

Two double deckers and a single decker?!

 

[Deerfold]

Two double deckers and a single decker?!

All single deckers. Except on a Sunday one midibus an hour.

4 different routes:

| | | 66/A 762/5 25 903
M-F 2bph, 2bph, 2bph, 1bph

Su 1bph, 1bph 1bp2h(!) -

GF 2bph, 2bph, 1bp2h, 1bph

 

[30907]

I think it's a north/south thing.

Except in Lancashire, where the mills closed - perhaps a high proportion of mill owners were observant Roman Catholics, or a high proportion of the workers?