"Jan Buxton" wrote in message
et...
Neil Williams wrote:
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:58:17 +0000, Jan Buxton
wrote:

The only thing in the latest Newsrail Express relating to Virgin is that
they are reinstating the no break of journey allowed on outward journey
restriction for various off-peak tickets including the 2C (ie PRE-EUS)
and 3A (ie LAN-EUS) restrictions.

Odd. I wonder are TOCs actually losing revenue over the "slackened"
BoJ restrictions? Or are they intending to use it to stop people
starting long/ending short on the outward and thus avoiding
restrictions?

Well certainly with the NFM02 time restrictions anyone travelling from
Preston for example who thought they might need to leave London between 3
and 6 would have been a fool not to have bought a Lancaster ticket. And
maybe Virgin saw that, maybe they've noticed a lot of people doing that
these last three months anyway. That said it is more than that route I
think, its quite a list of restrictions, off sick from work so can't
remember right now. Ultimately it must come down to perceived lost
revenue.

Cue another debate about whether Offpeak 'BOJ restrictions' include starting
long or ending short. As discussed last May, this has been settled once and
for all in the T&C for 'Advance', but not AFAICS for Offpeak...

I did some googling, and found a TSSA 'press release' that looks like it
might be the basis of the Evening Standard & Telegraph articles about those
long distance restrictions to Lancaster etc:

http://www.tssa.org.uk/article-101.php3?id_article=4630

Maybe they (TSSA) were on the right lines but got the time of day wrong?

Paul