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Title: Via Gloucester - does it really mean that? Post by: grahame on April 28, 2014, 17:31:28 Heading from Melksham to Burton-on-Trent on Wednesday afternoon, back on Friday afternoon ...
http://www.brfares.com/#!fares?orig=MKM&dest=BUT (http://www.brfares.com/#!fares?orig=MKM&dest=BUT) There's a 61.90 fare "via Gloucester" (and that's just about the only route offered for any fares). However, I'm offered that fare on the FGW site for a train at 12:03 (change at Chippenham and Bristol Temple Meads) and that doesn't go through Gloucester station. The 13:13 train - change at Trowbridge and Gloucester is nearly an hour slower :-\ Am I likely to be grilled on the XC train if I take the 12:03 as offered by the FGW site? Title: Re: Via Gloucester - does it really mean that? Post by: JayMac on April 28, 2014, 18:24:31 If you have an itinerary from a booking engine, then it's valid. Seat reservations will help reinforce that.
As to why the only available route is one marked 'via Gloucester' and there is no 'Any Permitted'; that's one you'll have to ask the fare setter. In this case CrossCountry. The shortest route (always valid) is actually via Swindon and Stroud. Although, leaving at 1203, this will take 55 minutes more than going via Bristol TM. This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |