[BNM] OT: Beach Camping

[Nick Wright]

Yeah I can't believe that the system can't pass all of you info on to the other website to save you having to fill it in twice. And then when you get to the end of the whole process you get told that you can only actually buy tickets online if your departure station has a particular type of ticketing machine which Brighton and Hove haven't got.

Cheers for the info on the Search by fare link, handy!

NW
 

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From: bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org [mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of shaun.numb at gmail.com
Sent: 06 August 2007 10:55
To: Brighton New Media
Subject: Re: [BNM] OT: Beach Camping

On 6 Aug 2007, at 10:39 || 06/08/2007, Nick Wright wrote:
> I've always researched my ticket prices online at nationrail.co.uk  
> and have been paying about £40-£60 return to Bristol, which is  
> about the cheapest you can get on the site. I recently discovered  
> that not all tickets are actually listed here.

Hmm... in my experience this isn't the case - it's just not easy to  
see 'by cheapest fare' on the main search. On the right hand side of  
the homepage is a 'Search by fare'http://ojp2.nationalrail.co.uk/en/ 
pj/fo1 link which is pretty great. In fact Nationalrail.co.uk is the  
only reliable website I've found at displaying all the trains - I've  
noticed the First Great Western and Virgin both omit certain trains  
from their listings, but then you can only by tickets online through  
these private providers (which is really frustrating - after having  
found the perfect trail on nationarail.co.uk you then have to enter  
in all the details all over again).

> I managed to get a return for under £20 ... the private ticket  
> office behind the glass on the left of the main entranceway as you  
> come into Brighton station.

You're right though, it is still much easier to ask a real human  
'give me the cheapest ticket possible on this date'.

Shaun

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