SWT Pricing confusion

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[JayMac]

And another....

Shirehampton to London Waterloo (Via Salisbury) CDR^▸ (Off Peak Day Return [ticket type] (formerly 'Cheap Day')) ^27.10
Any other station on the SVB Line to Waterloo (via SAL) CDR ^28.10 (very weird!!)
Bristol Temple Meads to Waterloo (via SAL) CDR ^37.60

Now, you have to go through BRI^» (Bristol Temple Meads - next trains) from SHH to WAT. Admittedly the restrictions are slightly different with the SVB line fares to Waterloo (via SAL) priced by FGW^▸ (First Great Western) and the Temple Meads fares priced by SWT^▸ (South West Trains). Must be some complicated ORCATS^▸ (Operational Research Computerised Allocation of Tickets to Services) reason for that...... however I cannot understand why it should be ^1 dearer to travel from say Clifton Down to Waterloo which is a shorter journey!

[grahame]

Trowbridge to Temple Meads is 8 pounds off peak return, as is Trowbridge to Sea Mills .... so if you want to burn the candle at both ends (as it were) you can pay 7.60 for a Melksham to Sea Mills off peak return and use it for just the middle part - Trowbridge to Temple Meads - part of the journey.

Trying to increase the ticket sales for Melksham there Graham?

In all seriousness, no I'm not ... it's utterly frustrating to quote ticket sales figures and how well they have done [quoting to First in asking for a decent service] , even with a crap service, to be told "that's only because of cheap tickets to Bristol from other stations".  It leaves more work to be done in getting the bias out of the stats.  Give me a system that's costed in pence per mile, plus pence per ticket (e.g. 2 pounds per ticket + 28p per mile) with higher fares or lower fares at peak / very quiet times to encourage the evening out of load.

[JJ]

You're right blunder isn't right! Just changed topic title 

[devon_metro]

FGW^▸ (First Great Western) might be able to justify that as all conductors are meant to do passenger counts with this info then fed back to management.

Trowbridge to Temple Meads is 8 pounds off peak return, as is Trowbridge to Sea Mills .... so if you want to burn the candle at both ends (as it were) you can pay 7.60 for a Melksham to Sea Mills off peak return and use it for just the middle part - Trowbridge to Temple Meads - part of the journey.

Trying to increase the ticket sales for Melksham there Graham?

In all seriousness, no I'm not ... it's utterly frustrating to quote ticket sales figures and how well they have done [quoting to First in asking for a decent service] , even with a crap service, to be told "that's only because of cheap tickets to Bristol from other stations".  It leaves more work to be done in getting the bias out of the stats.  Give me a system that's costed in pence per mile, plus pence per ticket (e.g. 2 pounds per ticket + 28p per mile) with higher fares or lower fares at peak / very quiet times to encourage the evening out of load.