Cheaper ticket victory for rail users group (This is South Devon 02/09/2010)

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[vacman]

What a load of crap that the Totnes hippies are claiming this as THEIR victory! it was down to the staff! If you look in detail at the new restrictions you'll see that the restrictions are by TRAIN not time, i.e. the first SSR train is the 0648 from Pnz throughout, whether you join at Penzance or Exeter 1C78 is the first ssr train, it is a major simplification that is most welcome and is down to staff bombarding management about how complicated the restrictions are from all stations not just bloody Totnes!

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What a load of crap that the Totnes hippies are claiming this as THEIR victory! it was down to the staff! If you look in detail at the new restrictions you'll see that the restrictions are by TRAIN not time, i.e. the first SSR train is the 0648 from Pnz throughout, whether you join at Penzance or Exeter 1C78 is the first ssr train, it is a major simplification that is most welcome and is down to staff bombarding management about how complicated the restrictions are from all stations not just bloody Totnes!

too true.. the adjustment to the ssr times were first notified about five/six weeks ago

[devon_metro]

So this renders the SVR ticket useless since the first train they were allowed on is the 0648 PNZ - PAD^» (Paddington (London) - next trains)? (from Newton Abbot at least!)

[vacman]

So this renders the SVR ticket useless since the first train they were allowed on is the 0648 PNZ - PAD^» (Paddington (London) - next trains)? (from Newton Abbot at least!)

There is one up SVR train, the 0541 Pnz-Pad, I believe that the restrictions from Pad remain the same though.

[ChrisB]

STaff & The Customer Panel claim success on the 0648 actually. It's something the CP has been worjking on with the FaresDirector for some time....

[Zoe]

the first SSR train is the 0648 from Pnz throughout, whether you join at Penzance or Exeter 1C78 is the first ssr train

That's how it used to be back in the days of the Super Saver.  Having it so that a Super Off Peak return was not valid from Newton Abbot but was from Exeter on the same trains just seemed to by revenue maximization.