Continuing my adventures in LNER TVMs for immediate travel to London I have now had a look at a TVM at Newcastle. Were one to ask for a ticket to London you would be presented with the following:
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(LNER TVM showing the only available ticket as being £192.80 Anytime Single)
Of course if you ask the same TVM for a ticket from Manors to Kings Cross:
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(Same TVM showing a Super Off-Peak Single at £83.80)
I particularly like on this example that you can arrive at 2139 and if you asked for Manors it cost you £83.80 and if you asked for Newcastle it was £192.80. Same trains but the cool £110 difference.
Best of luck to anyone who wants to go to London and doesn't realise the trick to not getting rinsed by LNER. As well as wanting to avoid a bus. Due to the Via Peterborough restriction on the Anytime Single it forces you onto the bus whilst the cheaper ticket is Any Permitted so finds journeys via the MML. Of course the Anytime could be excessed (for £0) to the any permitted but journey planners won't find that.
What a crock of the proverbial this "trial" is. Just be honest. It's to raise revenue. Nothing else. At least do us the courtesy of telling us to our faces that you want to be able to charge far more to travel than now. Rather than this insulting and ludicrous pretence its about making fares simpler or to avoid overcrowding.