Bizarre ticket prices.

[High Dyke]

Just checking out prices for a journey next week. I'm using a PRIV ticket for the journey. It amazed me to see that an Anytime return, Off-Peak return and the Anytime single were all the same price. An Off-Peak single is only 5p cheaper. The journey in question is Grantham to Derby.

My question is: does any other journey.have a similar pricing, even at full price?

 

[JonathanH]

The PRIV discount and rounding means that there is some loss of detail in the prices relative to the public fares which are £16.10, £16.00, £16.00 and £15.80 respectively

 

[MrJeeves]

Not the same style of pricing oddity but Exeter to Newton St Cures with a railcard.

Two singles (£1.55) saves five pence over the return ticket (£3.15) because of railcard rounding.

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[D6975]

Even with a normal, full price ticket there are many examples where a day return is only pennies more than a single.

 

[Kite159]

Even with a normal, full price ticket there are many examples where a day return is only pennies more than a single.

Or even in some cases cheaper if an off-peak day return is offered but only anytime singles are available.

 

[johnjdc]

Not really the same as your question but it's always struck me as odd, and I assume is due to some commercial arrangement, that it's cheaper off peak to get a 14 minute train from Oxford to Bicester Village than a 30 minute bus.

(or, currently, the same price because of the fare cap).