Why is it cheaper to travel further on the same train route?

techno12

farringtonb wrote: »

Thank you for the replies. It just puzzled me. I presume but perhaps could be wrong, you can depart at Penrith if your ticket is to and from Carlisle?

Once again thanks for the replies

It puzzles me too. I regularly travel from Leamington Spa to Birmingham, and I used to pay the £9.60 Chiltern-only off peak day return.

Travelling a few stops beyond Brum, to Smethwick Galton Bridge is only £8.70, and can be used on non-Chiltern services, so it's both cheaper and more flexible.

I always get my ticket to Smethwick nowadays, ending and starting the journeys 'short' in Brum.

Crazy.

yorkie2

techno12 wrote: »

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Travelling a few stops beyond .... both cheaper and more flexible.
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XC 'own' these flows. They have increased the price of many of their fares. They tend to increase the popular fares more than other fares; in this case they have forgotten about the fare you purchase.

As their pricing manager probably does not read this forum, then they probably won't find out about it for a while, so you should be able to enjoy using it.:D Though it is a risk; all it takes is for an eagle-eyed XC employee (or sympathiser) to inform their pricing manager, and that fare will rise very rapidly indeed.

Chiltern are, of course, undercutting the "Any Permitted" fare to Birmingham with their own fare, but as you say, that's still not as cheap as the other fare, which has surely been forgotten about!

For sure, the fare you buy will increase in cost, if XC find out about it.

(I've deliberately avoided mentioning it in this post, just in case you edit yours to remove station names)

Jlawson118

I don't even know myself, but I know we noticed the same earlier this year. There's a train from Leeds to Scarborough calling at York, Malton, Seamer and Scarborough. It's cheaper to pay to go to Scarborough but then get off at Seamer which is usually where we get off. It's a joke