Birmingham (any) validity

[dvboy]

They weren’t anything specifically to do with privatisation. The fares group Birmingham BR seems to date from 1988. In most fares groups “xxx stations” replaced “xxx BR”, and exactly the same issue (ie not knowing exactly what it meant) would have been in place long before privatisation was thought of.

I meant the change to Blackpool.

 

[SargeNpton]

That's good to see.

East Midlands Trains is even worse than the NR website. It explicitly describes Birmingham International as a "City Centre" station
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That would help, but it doesn't solve the problem that even if someone has buys a ticket to New Street, they get issued a ticket to "Birmingham Stations", which they might reasonably assume allows them to travel on to Birmingham International.

Those "City Centre" suffixes have all been added downstream of the official data feeds, so they are specific to the journey planner rather than being official descriptions.

 

[Nottingham59]

Those "City Centre" suffixes have all been added downstream of the official data feeds, so they are specific to the journey planner rather than being official descriptions.

Sure, but if it's on official website of the official Train Operating Company, then that counts as "official" in my book....