Timeline for Is 12 minutes connection in Bristol Temple Meads long enough?
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| May 13, 2019 at 15:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackTravel/status/1127951820633071616 | ||
| May 13, 2019 at 10:39 | comment | added | David Richerby | @Ayyash That's the same hidden-city ticketing that you find from airlines. Lots of people want to travel from B-C, so tickets are expensive. Fewer people want ot travel from A-C, so tickets are cheaper, even though they go via B. | |
| May 13, 2019 at 10:37 | comment | added | Ayyash | @DavidRicherby i used loco2, and i squeezed my eyeballs, not only is the short connection cheaper, but the second leg alone is more expensive, i think the idea is: let's confuse the heck out of people so we can manipulate prices as we wish :/ | |
| May 13, 2019 at 10:34 | comment | added | David Richerby | @Ayyash Each train has a certain number of advance tickets available, each in certain price bands. They're sold cheapest-first. So all that's happened is that the first train had some tickets available in a cheaper price band, but those had all been sold on the second train, so you'd have to buy one in a more expensive band. | |
| May 13, 2019 at 6:18 | comment | added | niemiro | I've made a long connection across almost all of the platforms at Bristol Temple Meads at just over one minute, although that was at a mad sprint and the train guard saw me and held the doors a few extra seconds to let me board. I guess it depends how fast you can walk but I think you'll be okay even if the train is a few minutes late :) | |
| May 13, 2019 at 5:42 | comment | added | Ayyash | it is two advanced, but to my amazement, cheaper only means a connection of 12 minutes, if I plan for a connection of 30 minutes, the price hikes! weird but true. | |
| May 13, 2019 at 5:36 | comment | added | B.Liu | Are you planning to purchase two advance tickets or a single anytime/off peak ticket for this journey (since you mentioned the word "cheaper")? Quite similar to how flight tickets works, if you bought two advance tickets and your first train was somehow delayed, you might have trouble doing the Bristol-Manchester leg with your second advance ticket. | |
| May 13, 2019 at 4:54 | vote | accept | Ayyash | ||
| May 13, 2019 at 4:44 | comment | added | Ayyash | For the one who inserted the image, thank you, it didn't work for me last night | |
| S May 13, 2019 at 0:06 | history | suggested | Ari Brodsky |
added tag "short-connections"
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| May 12, 2019 at 23:52 | history | became hot network question | |||
| May 12, 2019 at 23:38 | answer | added | Joe Malt | timeline score: 13 | |
| May 12, 2019 at 23:26 | answer | added | user4188 | timeline score: 15 | |
| May 12, 2019 at 23:02 | history | edited | Kate Gregory | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 12, 2019 at 22:58 | answer | added | Kate Gregory | timeline score: 25 | |
| May 12, 2019 at 22:34 | history | asked | Ayyash | CC BY-SA 4.0 |