Eurostar fares - added on from Great Western starting point (merged topic)

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[JayMac]

The EVR should suit your purposes grahame. It should be valid in combination with your return journey from the Netherlands to London Liverpool Street.

From 'The Manual':

Tickets to London International (London Intl CIV^▸ (International Convention for the transportation of Passengers)) must be offered to customers holding a ticket from London to a Continental destination via Rail/Sea or from London St. Pancras International for Eurostar.

Certain TOCs^▸ (Train Operating Company) also provide fares from London International, in which case these must be offered to customers presenting a rail ticket to London from a Continental origin.

Greater Anglia in conjunction with Nederlandse Spoorwegen is one of those 'certain TOCs'.

Can I find this information in the public domain? Guess.....? 

[ChrisB]

seat61.com? :-)

[JayMac]

A good, very good, website for information on UK^▸ (United Kingdom) and European rail travel. Extremely detailed and accurate, but it's still not an official source.

ATOC^» (Association of Train Operating Companies See - here) would do well to employ Mark Smith, the Man in Seat Sixty-One, to help improve their information to the public.

[grahame]

An update - ticket bought, no problem (but many thanks for the guidance - that magic number helped) and I'm now in the Netherlands.   Long and boring travellogue in two sections at

http://melksh.am/3994
and
http://melksh.am/3995

Only problems?  The cancellation of Fyra, but I had been given a heads-up, and it gave me a chance to see local rail in Belgium.  And the ticket barrier at PAD^» (Paddington (London) - next trains) which refused my ticket, and the chappy who then let me through and confiscated it until I pointed out it was valid to Kings Cross and got it back.  The TfL^» (Transport for London - about) barriers were happy with it ...

[swrural]

A good, very good, website for information on UK^▸ (United Kingdom) and European rail travel. Extremely detailed and accurate, but it's still not an official source.

ATOC^» (Association of Train Operating Companies See - here) would do well to employ Mark Smith, the Man in Seat Sixty-One, to help improve their information to the public.

Totally agree BNM, although the links to the booking systems of course only end you up in their blind alleys.  I just sampled Seat 61 and ended up on an SNCF^▸ (Societe Nationale des Chemins de fer Francais - French National Railways) site that was a pain to use.  I am now reduced to looking up maps to see if there are alternative options.  I cannot believe that the only trains from Bordeaux to Bergerac are at 0600 and 0700.  It's a bit like Melksham.    

Of course there's nothing Seat 61 man can do about that, but as you write, if he were brought in....

[grahame]

The EVR should suit your purposes grahame. It should be valid in combination with your return journey from the Netherlands to London Liverpool Street.

The barriers into the underground at Liverpool Street accepted the ticket when I arrived back off the boat train about an hour ago, so there's a confirmation that the CIV^▸ (International Convention for the transportation of Passengers) still works inbound via Harwich