Price discrepancy between GWR and Trainsplit

[HST274]

This is a minor issue, but now my curiousity is piqued and I want to find out the reasons.

The 'problem' in effect is that an advance single for an adult from Worcester Foregate Street to St pancras on Trainsplit is £19.50, whereas on the GWR website it is £20.

Both are seemingly advance singles from Worcester to London Underground zone 1, but for some reason there is this 50p difference. As I say this is a non isssue, I just wondered what had caused trainsplit to find this 'discount' of £0.50. Thanks for any responses!

*Also trainsplit only seems to offer paper tickets, so maybe that is related? I have no clue.

 

[island]

Are you sure they're for the same trains? For that journey, a £19.50 fare would be route AP HIGH WYCOMBE and a £20.00 fare would be route AP EVESHAM.

 

[HST274]

This is what I found, but yes identical trains, both to London paddington at 1008 in early July on a weekday, changing to the Underground.

 

[yorkie]

Your post is a bit cryptic so required a lot of detective work, but I can answer that this is down to a pricing error by GWR.

Their 'W2O' Advance fare to London Zone U1 is priced at £3.50 more than to London Terminals; the correct additional sum to pay for Zone U1 should only be £3.

The GWR site is offering the defined fare to London Zone U1, including the 50p overcharge.

Trainsplit is correctly determining the through fare as a combination of the £19.50 price to London Terminals and the appropriate £3 supplement through to Zone 1.

https://www.brfares.com/!faredetail?orig=WOF&dest=PAD&grpo=0447&grpd=1072&rte=820&tkt=W2O

​ Standard​ SINGLE​	​ ADVANCE [QS] W2O​
From​	WORCESTER SH/FS​	​	​
To​	LONDON TERMINALS​	​	​
Route​	GWR ONLY (00820)​

PRICE
Fare set by:​	GWA GWR ADVANCE​
Passengers per ticket:​	1 adult OR 1 child​
Discount Status​	Status Code (shown on ticket)​	Price​
ADULT​	​	£16.50​
CHILD​	CHILD​	£8.25​

https://www.brfares.com/!faredetail?orig=WOF&dest=0785&rte=433&tkt=W2O

​ Standard​ SINGLE​	​ ADVANCE [IS] W2O​
From​	WORCESTER FGT ST​	​	​
To​	ZONE U1* LONDN​	​	​
Route​	AP EVESHAM​

PRICE
Fare set by:​	GWA GWR ADVANCE​
Passengers per ticket:​	1 adult OR 1 child​
Discount Status​	Status Code (shown on ticket)​	Price​
ADULT​	​	£20.00​

*Also trainsplit only seems to offer paper tickets, so maybe that is related? I have no clue.

If GWR are offering an e-ticket for this journey, that would cause problems if using it at a London Underground gateline, as LU staff deem such tickets to be invalid (even though, contractually, they are valid).

 

[HST274]

Thank you for that! Apologies if it was a tad cryptic. Interesting to see which was correct, and nice to know it was the ever so slightly cheaper option.