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« Reply #60 on: June 19, 2011, 09:05:44 » |
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« Reply #61 on: June 19, 2011, 20:15:36 » |
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Ok, happy to learn that FGW▸ (all TOCs▸ ?) have hiven these up...
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ScotRail sleeper hosts still use excess pads for any walk up passengers but these days they are only really useful if you know the fares as copies of the NFM▸ are no longer kept on board. |
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« Reply #62 on: June 20, 2011, 18:42:08 » |
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Ok, happy to learn that FGW▸ (all TOCs▸ ?) have hiven these up...
Any staff care to comment?
ScotRail sleeper hosts still use excess pads for any walk up passengers but these days they are only really useful if you know the fares as copies of the NFM▸ are no longer kept on board. last time I went on SR‡ sleepers the other day the sleeper host had an avantix! |
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« Reply #63 on: June 21, 2011, 14:19:30 » |
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Very impressed this morning with the Torbay 'school train' (0745 Teignmouth - Torre). Impressed to see that everybody had a ticket - most with season tickets, was under the impression that the Torquay Grammar lot were a bunch of fare dodgers  RPI▸ didn't have much to do! |
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« Reply #64 on: June 21, 2011, 21:27:13 » |
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Very impressed this morning with the Torbay 'school train' (0745 Teignmouth - Torre). Impressed to see that everybody had a ticket - most with season tickets, was under the impression that the Torquay Grammar lot were a bunch of fare dodgers RPI▸ didn't have much to do! How d'ya know they all had tickets? did you check? |
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« Reply #65 on: June 21, 2011, 22:15:20 » |
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Ok, happy to learn that FGW▸ (all TOCs▸ ?) have hiven these up...
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ScotRail sleeper hosts still use excess pads for any walk up passengers but these days they are only really useful if you know the fares as copies of the NFM▸ are no longer kept on board. last time I went on SR‡ sleepers the other day the sleeper host had an avantix! Mind if I ask where you were travelling from / to? |
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« Reply #66 on: June 22, 2011, 00:03:20 » |
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Very impressed this morning with the Torbay 'school train' (0745 Teignmouth - Torre). Impressed to see that everybody had a ticket - most with season tickets, was under the impression that the Torquay Grammar lot were a bunch of fare dodgers RPI▸ didn't have much to do! How d'ya know they all had tickets? did you check? I watched them each show a ticket to the RPI who seemed suitably happy with what they showed them, so I count that as having tickets  Obviously I could only see into the front carriage... |
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« Reply #67 on: June 22, 2011, 13:09:33 » |
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I bet if you'd have been on the later train you'd have seen a different picture! The 7.50 from Exd is the one!
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« Reply #68 on: June 22, 2011, 14:56:13 » |
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Torquay Grammar School is a state school. Therefore pupils travelling to school by train would have a season ticket paid for by the local authority unless they are pupils from out of the catchment area whose parents have chosen to choose this school rather than a local one offered to them by the LA.
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« Reply #69 on: June 23, 2011, 00:11:15 » |
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The majority of those children from Starcross,Dawlish and Teignmouth who attend Torquay Grammar do not have their season ticket paid for them, if indeed they have one at all. Many parents obviously give their children their fares on a daily basis but some children do everything in their power to avoid having to spend it!
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JayMac
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« Reply #70 on: June 23, 2011, 04:00:44 » |
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Yep, that sounds like most kids.
I used to be given ^1.50 a day for my return bus fare to my school (I was just inside the catchment that would've allowed free travel) and would often walk to and from school so I saved the ^1.50 to spend in the tuck shop at break time. Mum eventually cottoned on and hence with walked me to the bus stop on her way to work. I was clever though (for a given value of 'clever' - being 11) and only bought a single (^1) thus still having 50p for a cream doughnut and a bag of crisps! Had to walk home though.... when I didn't blag the return bus fare.....
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"Treat everyone the same until you find out they're an idiot."
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« Reply #71 on: June 23, 2011, 14:59:28 » |
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Torquay Grammar School is a state school. Therefore pupils travelling to school by train would have a season ticket paid for by the local authority unless they are pupils from out of the catchment area whose parents have chosen to choose this school rather than a local one offered to them by the LA.
Is that true in both England and Wales now? Certainly wasn't the case in Wales when I was in school (only a few years ago). Those who lived further than a certain distancea away (I think it was about 2 miles) had the option of the free school bus, but for those of us who lived just within the limit it was either walk (45/50 minutes in the belting down rain? No thanks) or get the train (^1 return if the guard came around - the stations are unmanned and have no ticket buying facilities). |
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ChrisB
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« Reply #72 on: June 23, 2011, 15:02:08 » |
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That's you are IN the catchmernt area, which you obviously were.
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« Reply #73 on: June 23, 2011, 15:13:02 » |
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If you live close to the school - nothing, then another catchment area where you get a bus pass (don't know if they do train travel!), then outside of this area i.e. too far away, you get nothing. At least that's how I understand it. Torquay Grammar is selective so it's ultimately the parents choice to live miles and miles away from a school. Since the school is selective they don't take kids on based on location to school, instead Academics etc. My school was selective (the local rival to Torquay Grammar ) and we had people travelling from miles. I knew somebody who walked to a bus stop, caught a bus to Dartmouth, got a ferry, then finally another bus to school. They had to pay too! As it happens I was about half a mile outside the free bus pass catchment area. |
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ChrisB
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« Reply #74 on: June 23, 2011, 15:26:36 » |
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If you live close to the school - nothing, then another catchment area where you get a bus pass (don't know if they do train travel!), then outside of this area i.e. too far away, you get nothing. Yup. Inside three miles; nothing Beyond three miles but within catchment - free bus or train (if no bus) travel Outside catchment - nothing |
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