It also implies that you can't buy one at Hayes & Harlington which I don't think is correct either. Looks like someone's pasted wrong information in that field...
And hasn't updated it since 'Heathrow Connect' ceased to exist.
Southeastern have increased the price of the 14 day standard class from £866 to £908 from 3rd March.
ticket.southeasternrailway.co.uk
Naughty Southeastern. New fares aren't supposed to be applied until Sunday.Southeastern have increased the price of the 14 day standard class from £866 to £908 from 3rd March.
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That's a ~4.85% increase, so might that mean the First Class 7 day ALR with railcard discount increasing from £571.55 to a ball park new amount just under £600.00?
It just seems to be the standard 4.9% increase rounded to the whole pound as per the regulated rail fares:
Re rounded to the whole pound. Say a ticket cost £3 for example. 4.9% increase would be £3.147. I thought this would therefore be £3.15. But does the rounded to the whole pound mean it would be £4, as rounded up to whole pound? Or rounded down so remains at £3?It just seems to be the standard 4.9% increase rounded to the whole pound as per the regulated rail fares:
Significant intervention to cap rail fares comes as government delivers target to halve inflation
Fare increases capped at 4.9% and will not increase until 3 March 2024.www.gov.uk
The internal version of the national rail website (in the Fares Retailing Information section) states that Rangers and Rovers can be issued up to 12 months in advance of the date of travel.
Normal fares round to a multiple of 10p (20p for Returns within the Project Oval area.) All Line Rovers are traditionally a whole pound amount, however.
I believe the comment about rounding to the whole pound specifically refers to the All Line Rover.
Ok, thanks. £2.35 was the railcard discounted cost, so that'll be why it was £0.05 increment rather than £0.10 I imagine?
Ah - thank you!
Yes, that is correct. The 14 day standard class ALR has been a whole number of pounds for at least a decade or two IIRC.
Including the fact that in a lot of cases you can't use equivalent passes if you're resident there? The closest I can find for Spain which Spanish residents / citizens can use is the abono flexible, which is €735 / £630 in standard and is limited to ten high-speed journeys within four months (and as far as I can tell doesn't include regional / suburban travel). I can't find an equivalent for France at all discounting Interrail / Eurail passes, and Italy's in a similar situation (no national ticket available for Italian resident citizens as far as I can tell, and 3 trips in 7 days or 10 in 30 for the Trenitalia pass seems a lot more limiting than the all line rover if intensive travelling for foreign tourists is the aim).
There's one every year!
At least it just appears to be the Rovers and not normal tickets on the few flows I checked.
My guess is so there’s only one day of bad publicity rather than a ‘kick-in’ from the press when there fares get announced and then another one on the day they go live.
I believe the short version is that moving the main annual fares change from January to March in 2021 (announced mid-December 2020) has thrown all of the timescales out of whack, not helped in 2021 by TfL's new fares not being announced until mid-January. As such, there's not enough time for TOCs to undertake repricing (Spoiler: It involves more than pressing a button that says "Increase all fares by <x>%"
) and meet the deadline to get new fares out four weeks in advance of them going live.
I doubt it needs either of those. The biggest difference would be for the government to make an earlier decision about the level of fare rise each year. However, I suspect that they rather like removing the fares increase headlines from the 'not having any money just after Christmas' period.
It is poor value considering the restrictions that they have.
