All Line Rover
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Yes, and it could be put onto a centralised and well publicised website that could lay claim to being the definitive rail travel guide to the public....
Oh.
The Manual isn't definitive. It's a guide to retail staff.
If "not definitive" = "useless" = "not necessary" then what point does The Manual serve? It is a guide to retail staff, but it would also be nice if it was available to the public, to save them having to ask retail staff (which includes the dreaded NRE helpline! hock about minor matters.
Your argument (in this specific post) does not make sense. NRE is almost a carbon copy of The Manual, but is in an easier to understand format and is "definitive" because it is the public's information resource. On the "odd" () occasion I have spotted a mistake on NRE, I contacted ATOC about it, they sent me a copy of the relevant extract from The Manual and they updated NRE to correspond with The Manual. If The Manual is "not definitive," but is just a "guide" that is subject to interpretation, why would ATOC (who run NRE) do such a thing time and again?
None of these arguments convince me that some "major" issue prevents ATOC from putting a PDF copy of The Manual online that is publicly available (like they have done for the RG). So I will contact them and see what they say - no harm can come from doing so, after all!
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