South Western Railway Mixing Deck Via points

[maniacmartin]

The new South Western Railway website uses Atos Worldline WebTIS. Most of the routes into the booking engine use a new simplified interface, but you can get the classic Mixing Deck interface when buying season tickets by clicking Buy a standard paper Season Ticket button on the Season Tickets page .

In SWR's Season Mixing Deck, once you key in your origin and destination, this message is displayed prominently next to the results:

If you have searched using "Via" please use National Rail Enquiries to validate your journey

This is very much a slapdash solution to getting around any bugs in the booking engine not checking journeys with Via points specified might not be properly validated against the Routeing Guide - just ask the passenger to check on NRE themselves!

 

[cav1975]

Does anyone know how to get the SWR mixing deck to show up for a non season ticket? The customer interface provided from their home page shows only one ticket price for each train offered.

 

[Paul Kelly]

http://tickets.southwesternrailway.com/sw/en/JourneyPlanning/MixingDeck

 

[cav1975]

Thanks Indigo2, I wonder why it is so well hidden.

 

[talldave]

I'm guessing because the people responsible for imposing the crap alternative on passengers never actually buy tickets.