Yes. Sometimes you need to check that the end to end ticketing system works properly, and that means buying a ticket. A ticket that is priced low enough to be 'disposable' is ideal for such purposes, and it also helps if it's easy to remember.
Interesting - presumably this is something a TOC does?
Another common ‘test ticket’ is Burnley Central to Burnley Barracks £1.50 single
I’d be mildly surprised if anyone else was doing it! Mystery shoppers buy proper tickets, and usually travel in order to test every aspect of rail travel.
Too expensive!
It’s the one we were advised to use!
Going by the tendency of customers to ask for tickets to the main station of the large city they are visiting, I would not be surprised to find there are very large numbers of combinations of suburban London station to suburban Glasgow/Manchester/Birmingham type journeys for which no ticket are sold. Equally, there will be vast numbers of remote rural station to remote rural station journeys that have similarly non-existent sales.
I'd have thought some non-toc retailers would also put test purchases through the system from time to time.
Found a couple of £1.30s around Glasgow- Kings Park to Croftfoot (they’re in the same street!) and the aforementioned Bearsden to Hilfoot. There will probably be others
Yes, I suppose I meant retailers but for the non-TOC retailers delivery at a TVM or ticket office TIS is, arguably, someone else's problem.
I've done Newton Aycliffe-Ruswarp. Shouldn't imagine too many other people have done so.
Did that one on Saturday.
). I would be amazed if there weren't a reasonable number of enthusiasts who have bought New Lane-Bescar Lane or Hoscar to one of them, possibly not even making the journey but just to prat about with the stats. (There was a campaign to buy an obscure one in Scotland on uk.railway a while back and I think about 30 or so were sold with nobody actually making the journey - Forsinard to Altnabreac or something like that, all with reservations too - I wonder were they placed?). ) would be more likely to go to KGV, Ormskirk Grammar/Cross Hall (now merged as Ormskirk School on the old Cross Hall site) or Burscough Priory for sixth form. Though Winstanley wasn't unheard of.
If it’s the one I’m thinking of it was Culrain to Invershin on 25th January 2010, just found the booking receipt for it in my mailbox. Did that not end up as an RRB anyway as the line was shut after a flood or landslide? I did wonder if they made a special provision for all those “bookings”I can't imagine there will be many from Gathurst to Bescar Lane - that's the sort of thing I mean by semi-obscure (sorry @Gathursty
Used to be a decent pub next to Hoscar station, now a private house, even less reason to travel to Hoscar!Yeah, I'd figure someone living around there (and when I was a kid I actually did have a friend who lived in the farmhouse just up from Bescar Lane, and I bet they never used it either
I'd venture that the main users of New Lane and Bescar Lane (to the extent that they have any) may well actually be school/college traffic to/from Southport and Burscough.
Actually, thinking on I had a sort-of-friend (more an acquaintance) who lived in Hoscar, too! I don't think he used it either
Depends on your definition of "building" I suppose as it is possible to walk from one to the other completely indoors, although this is significantly longer than at street level as it goes via the Jubilee line concourse.
