Title: Advance tickets available up to six months ahead on some GWR routes Post by: bobm on September 25, 2017, 13:28:14 From GWR.com (https://www.gwr.com/plan-journey/tickets-railcards-and-season-tickets/booking-tickets-in-advance)
Quote From Friday 29 September, bookings up to six months in advance will be accepted on selected routes. Title: Re: Advance tickets available up to six months ahead on some GWR routes Post by: ChrisB on September 25, 2017, 13:38:45 Playing catch up with Virgin....likely to be Mon-Fridays.
Title: Re: Advance tickets available up to six months ahead on some GWR routes Post by: Tim on September 25, 2017, 13:52:34 From GWR.com (https://www.gwr.com/plan-journey/tickets-railcards-and-season-tickets/booking-tickets-in-advance) Quote From Friday 29 September, bookings up to six months in advance will be accepted on selected routes. If they know what services are running 6 months in advance, can I suggest that they use that information to allocate drivers. Title: Re: Advance tickets available up to six months ahead on some GWR routes Post by: JayMac on September 25, 2017, 18:02:25 If they know what services are running 6 months in advance, can I suggest that they use that information to allocate drivers. Post of the month! ;D ;D ;D Title: Re: Advance tickets available up to six months ahead on some GWR routes Post by: Chris from Nailsea on September 27, 2017, 01:33:35 Indeed - and with my own thanks to Tim for his slightly wicked point, I've actually taken the liberty of inserting a few spaces between the text of his comment and the now two whole lines of our members who have 'liked' his post - simply in the interests of clarity.
Chris. ;) :D ;D Title: Re: Advance tickets available up to six months ahead on some GWR routes Post by: broadgage on October 01, 2017, 10:07:41 Perhaps the idea is not to allocate drivers, but to ascertain how many replacement buses are needed ?
The number of advance ticket sales would give an indication as to demand. Title: Re: Advance tickets available up to six months ahead on some GWR routes Post by: WelshBluebird on October 01, 2017, 23:01:02 Incase anyone is still interested, the link now states that:
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