Better in what way?
For fares enquiries only I use
http://www.brfares.com/#home Doesn't crash, doesn't throw up silly fares like
NRE‡ often does, just put in your origin and destination
et voila, all fares between those points.
And if you want to check split fares there's no better resource than
asking me https://www.trainsplit.comI looked at the
BR▸ fares site last night and initially thought it was a little confusing. Then I looked again this morning and got on better with it, concluding that last night's visit must have been clouded by too much barley water and grape juice - if you get my drift...
By the time of my second visit I had remembered an incident from some years ago when I wanted to book to Stonehouse, and the NRE site didn't give the option of an off-peak return and showed an anytime fare only, I ended up booking to Gloucester on that occasions because it appeared to be cheaper. So when I entered that combination this morning the results showed that there is an off peak fare, but it is actually more expensive than the anytime return!
http://www.brfares.com/#!fares?orig=cpm&dest=SHU&rlc=SRN
I understand that you shouldn't look for logic behind the
UK▸ railway fare structure, but this seems to me utterly barmy. How can it happen?
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