On 10 Dec, 10:00, "John Salmon" wrote:
"The national fare structure for two-operator journeys"? Never heard of such
a thing.

It's not actually a bad description of what's happened. As best I can
tell, when SWT introduced SOP they just put up the prices of all the
OP fares they controlled*, including those that overlap into another
operator's territory, but they only introduced SOP fares for journeys
wholly within SWT territory. Whether they did this because the fares
structure forbid them, or because they're arseholes, I can't tell.

U

(* as I said earlier in the thread, each pair of stations is assigned
to a single operator to set fares)