Train tickets

[Sockpuppet]

Ok.

So my weekly train ticket from Leicester to St Pancras is £340 1st class. The train stops at Market Harborough.

A weekly train ticket from Leicester to Market H then from Market H to St Pancras is £300 1st class.

Can anyone explain this to me - its the same train. The ticket office operator and the train conductor were most bemused by my handing over of two tickets this morning.

So what does the panel think, sensible business economic or me being a tight git.

 

[The Lone Gunman]

It was explaine to me by another tight northerner some time ago.

The tickets are priced based on destination and arrival time.
To arrive in London early in the morning you pay a premium, but to Market H you dont pay quite as much. So you benefit from the cheaper leg to MH and then pay the premium rate for a much shorter route.

The chap who explained it used to purchase 5 tickets to get from Preston to Euston.

 

[zeitghost]

Your company (I presume) is being justifiably careful in its use of resources.

You tight git.

 

[oracleslave]

Your company (I presume) is being justifiably careful in its use of resources.

You tight git.

WHS!

 

[Moscow Mule]

If the hassle of buying two tickets is worth less than £40 to you, then I say do it.

You're still tight though...

 

[Board Game Geek]

Pricing seems to be quite arbitary on the public transport system these days.

Mrs BGG and I got a bus from point A.

She wanted to get off at point B.

I wanted to go an extra mile, and got off at point C.

Yet the prices for the tickets were the same.

Therefore I concluded that if someone got on at point B and wanted to get off at point C, the price should be £0.00

bus : A vehicle smelling of wee-wee and populated by chavs and single mums with Chelsea Tractor- sized buggies. The vehicle is driven typically by a grumpy, tattooed, shaven-headed representative of the bus company, who has a pathological dislike of anyone using paper money.

 

[thunderlizard]

You're not paying for the distance travelled.
You're paying for being allowed to get off the bus at the place you want to get to.

 

[Board Game Geek]

ThunderLizard posted : You're not paying for the distance travelled.
You're paying for being allowed to get off the bus at the place you want to get to.

On that basis, could I therefore get on at Point A, and do a complete circuit and get off at point A again and not pay anything ?

Since the get off point is the same, would there be any cost ?

Apart from to my own sanity ofc. (See bus description in previous post)

 

[tino]

On that basis, could I therefore get on at Point A, and do a complete circuit and get off at point A again and not pay anything ?

Since the get off point is the same, would there be any cost ?

Apart from to my own sanity ofc. (See bus description in previous post)

If a tree falls in the woods does anyone hear it scream?

 

[lilelvis2000]

Pricing seems to be quite arbitary on the public transport system these days.

Mrs BGG and I got a bus from point A.

She wanted to get off at point B.

I wanted to go an extra mile, and got off at point C.

Yet the prices for the tickets were the same.

Therefore I concluded that if someone got on at point B and wanted to get off at point C, the price should be £0.00

bus : A vehicle smelling of wee-wee and populated by chavs and single mums with Chelsea Tractor- sized buggies. The vehicle is driven typically by a grumpy, tattooed, shaven-headed representative of the bus company, who has a pathological dislike of anyone using paper money.

Well I need to take two busses sometimes... and from A to B is quite expensiive. but B to C is reasonable. Yet the distance from B to C is about double the distance of A to B. I'm being ripped off!

And for some reason there is no bus from A to C because every darn bus just has to go between the town centres!