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Thanks for the excellent site, Nick. Any chance you foresee PlusBus sales at any point?
Are any available through the TOD system?Nick, I know you must be quite a busy chap, but have you thought about incorporating rover tickets or would this be a step too far?
None that I'm aware of - so that answers my question.Are any available through the TOD system?
Is there a way of finding out the cheapest return journey across two days, so it locates cheapest outward and then cheapest return?
I'm not looking for a flexible ticket though as they are more expensive.Trainsplit already offers this.
If you are specifically looking for flexible fares (e.g. Off-Peak Returns) then use the website, not the app, and change the selection at the top from "Fixed Time" to "Flexible" (in the box labelled "Step 1").
The app is pretty good, but is more limited than the website - e.g. it doesn't offer a 'via' point option, nor any of the advanced options the website does.
If you're looking for the days with the cheapest advance tickets I know Virgin Trains have a tool that works for their routes. Trainline also has a cheap fare finder to do that.I'm not looking for a flexible ticket though as they are more expensive.
I'm looking for the chepatest fixed ticket across one day.
It may not be technologically possible as it might use to much computer processing power and time but I just wanted to mention it to see if it were possible.
I'm not looking for a flexible ticket though as they are more expensive.
I'm looking for the chepatest fixed ticket across one day.
It may not be technologically possible as it might use to much computer processing power and time but I just wanted to mention it to see if it were possible.
Given it the time it took for my requests I guest processing power was the issue.Aha, I understand now - you'd like to be able to search for a journey on a particular day (or a return journey on two particular days, i.e. one day out and another day back) and be presented with the cheapest split ticket combination for those two days.
I imagine, whilst technically possible, it'd use too much processing time and power and perhaps result in too many queries to the NRS.
You can get Trainsplit to do what you want by using the 'earlier' and 'later' journey time options, but obviously this will take a while to research all the splits found for a return journey across two days.
Train split can find cheap split advances.If you're looking for the days with the cheapest advance tickets I know Virgin Trains have a tool that works for their routes. Trainline also has a cheap fare finder to do that.
Recently Loco2 also published statistics about what days usually have the cheapest advance fares available, although I don't remember which day it was!
I didn't think it would be possible but I thought I'd ask just in case.I am not sure it would be viable ; you are asking for around 48 hours worth of possible itineraries (including slower itineraries, as these may be cheaper) and, for each of those itineraries, calculating the cheapest Advance splits, and then displaying the cheapest overall results.
One day computers will be powerful e ought but ticketing will have moved on.
....One day computers will be powerful [enough]
The issue is NRS: journey planners are only allowed to request 5 journeys in each direction, because of capacity constraints with NRS