Fares manuals

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Fares manuals

« on: January 25, 2017, 00:08:35 »

By any chance does anyone have access to the fares manuals covering the Exeter area for January 2007 and 2008?

I need a small number of fares for the Avocet^▸ line for both dates.

TJ


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« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2017, 08:05:36 »

For that you would require NFM^▸ 95 (Jan-May 2007), and NFM 98 (Jan-May 2008).

I believe the first time the CD^▸ -ROMs (a Windows based program called Avantix^▸ Traveller) of the fares database became publicly available was with NFM 98 (Jan-May 2008). So that one at least can be found online.

Prior to that you may need to contact the Rail Delivery Group (formerly ATOC^» ) for historical fares information, or maybe the National Railway Museum who may have the fares manuals in their archive.

Here's a link to Avantix Traveller NFM 98 (Jan-May 2008). It's a zipped file of the program that requires extracting then running on a Windows based PC:

https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21&id=CAE1E0742D874E31%21139&cid=CAE1E0742D874E31

NFM = National Fares Manual. These were paper based manuals originally. Split into regions. In the early 2000s the fares manuals became available on computer to rail industry staff, with the paper manuals phased out in 2007. The first fully electronic manual was NFM 98. Soon after, the electronic manuals became available to the public for a fee. More recently they have been available online at no charge from ATOC/RDG^‡.


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Re: Fares manuals

« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2017, 23:53:10 »

Many thanks for the information, much appreciated. I downloaded the 2008 fares file but like earlier ones for which I have the CDs^▸ it wouldn't run on a Windows 10 machine. As I had managed to get the 'others' to run on an ancient XP based laptop I tried the 2008 one but hey ho, it won't run there either and seems to have access, somewhere in its bowels, to the 2011 data!

Its not terribly important for me to have the 2008 data but if anyone out there could look up 7 fares for me it would be much appreciated. What I am after is the CDRs^▸ from Exmouth to each of the 7 stations up to and including Exeter Central.

TJ


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« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2017, 08:53:53 »

I'll try the Jan 2008 manual on a Windows 8 laptop later today. One I know that has never had Avantix^▸ Traveller installed. I, too have come across issues installing more than one NFM^▸ at a time.


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