defitzi
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This post developed from an original appeal by me for info on BRITRAIL (NOT InterRail ) Pass prices which proved completly unfruitful. I now know that BRITRAI PASS prices are deliberately not disclosed in UK (or Ireland) nor can the passes be booked online in the UK. Nor was information or any purchase/booking option available through any of the usual railway booking sources or from ATOC media!
:cry:Being an overseas resident
I was planning an extensive rail tour this summer as "last time trip" (I am 73) doing research . After extensive failure to ascertain price of BritRail passes (all sites /sales researched blacked-out (censored?) price info, and all atempts top book failed.
BRITRAIL Passes are only available abroad -available to ALL overseas residents! YET Sites accessed from Google in other EC countries produceD exactly the same results as in the UK. All my research was done from Dublin but each and every site offering BritRrail passes for sale refused to disclose prices or permit booking or give any further info although all claim that Britail passes ARE available to ALL overseas visitors-specifically ALL non UK residents- but not, it seems, to overseas VISITORS ALREADY IN THE UK!
As a result, a film company which I underttook research for, is making a extensive History of Railways worldwide (numerous episodes will be made in UK and Ireland. As aresult to th BRITRAIL pass fiasco, it is now changing its plans and will not, as originally intended, be buying lots and lots of BRITRAIL passes. Instead, it will now spend 50k on a motorhome (and resell that later) and so will save lots and lots of money by NOT using the railways here and other services.
Great for the economy? judge for yourself, 'cos for sure, none of that company's money will now go to fill the coffers of greedy TOC or ticket agency shareholders. ([email protected])
A new albeit, associated, project is planned-with 80% filming from linesides!
I have been amazed to discover how many supposedly different sites, all claiming to be BritRail bookers and sellers, lead back to just one source-Rail Europe, who also will not disclose (in the UK) prices for BRITRAIL passes.
But please note: the motorhome was purchased OUTSIDE the UK, will also be taxed, insured etc OUTSIDE the UK, and so the company involved will spend considerably less monies than it originally intended to spend in the UK. And BritRail passes would have accounted for just a fraction of the original planned expenditure on fares, sleepers, hotels and other facets of the project that would havbe b een spent had the original project gone ahead using rather a lot of BritRail passes.
I have edited this as it seems the original point I was makmng was was not entirely clear: the start was an atempt to cost BRITRAIL poasses which proved impossible to do in either the UK or in the Republic of Ireland and so the first nail in the shoe was lost.....
Perhaps I should have made it clear at the very beginning, that BRITRAIL passes ARE NOT Interail passes!
Sorry if my original was not as clear as it should have been-I am recovering from extensive eye surgery and admirable IE's assistance for the handicapped has been, it is still somewhat difficult to use the net as I used to!
:cry:Being an overseas resident
I was planning an extensive rail tour this summer as "last time trip" (I am 73) doing research . After extensive failure to ascertain price of BritRail passes (all sites /sales researched blacked-out (censored?) price info, and all atempts top book failed. BRITRAIL Passes are only available abroad -available to ALL overseas residents! YET Sites accessed from Google in other EC countries produceD exactly the same results as in the UK. All my research was done from Dublin but each and every site offering BritRrail passes for sale refused to disclose prices or permit booking or give any further info although all claim that Britail passes ARE available to ALL overseas visitors-specifically ALL non UK residents- but not, it seems, to overseas VISITORS ALREADY IN THE UK!
As a result, a film company which I underttook research for, is making a extensive History of Railways worldwide (numerous episodes will be made in UK and Ireland. As aresult to th BRITRAIL pass fiasco, it is now changing its plans and will not, as originally intended, be buying lots and lots of BRITRAIL passes. Instead, it will now spend 50k on a motorhome (and resell that later) and so will save lots and lots of money by NOT using the railways here and other services.
Great for the economy? judge for yourself, 'cos for sure, none of that company's money will now go to fill the coffers of greedy TOC or ticket agency shareholders. ([email protected])
A new albeit, associated, project is planned-with 80% filming from linesides!
I have been amazed to discover how many supposedly different sites, all claiming to be BritRail bookers and sellers, lead back to just one source-Rail Europe, who also will not disclose (in the UK) prices for BRITRAIL passes.
But please note: the motorhome was purchased OUTSIDE the UK, will also be taxed, insured etc OUTSIDE the UK, and so the company involved will spend considerably less monies than it originally intended to spend in the UK. And BritRail passes would have accounted for just a fraction of the original planned expenditure on fares, sleepers, hotels and other facets of the project that would havbe b een spent had the original project gone ahead using rather a lot of BritRail passes.
I have edited this as it seems the original point I was makmng was was not entirely clear: the start was an atempt to cost BRITRAIL poasses which proved impossible to do in either the UK or in the Republic of Ireland and so the first nail in the shoe was lost.....
Perhaps I should have made it clear at the very beginning, that BRITRAIL passes ARE NOT Interail passes!
Sorry if my original was not as clear as it should have been-I am recovering from extensive eye surgery and admirable IE's assistance for the handicapped has been, it is still somewhat difficult to use the net as I used to!
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