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    1. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 23 Aug 2017
      Replying to @380kmh

      Take a look: only three trips, for starters...imagine first leaves too early & last arrives too late--you're screwed! Customer-hostile farespic.twitter.com/0ewdyPGTly

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    2. Simon‏ @uncriticalsimon 23 Aug 2017
      Replying to @380kmh

      It's what airlines do though. To try to level out the peaks a little.

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    3. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 23 Aug 2017
      Replying to @uncriticalsimon

      These aren't airplanes though...mitigate peak demand on trains by increasing frequency/volume not by playing with prices

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    4. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 23 Aug 2017
      Replying to @380kmh @uncriticalsimon

      Train trips tend to be daily, local, spontaneous affairs, vs air travel which is rarer, goes further, and is likely planned in advance

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    5. Simon‏ @uncriticalsimon 23 Aug 2017
      Replying to @380kmh

      I don't want a pre-booked railway either, but we are talking about intercity not regional or commuter trains. They aren't so spontaneous.

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    6. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 23 Aug 2017
      Replying to @uncriticalsimon

      but they're gonna use the same tracks and stations for the most part, might as well standardize ticketing practices

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    7. Simon‏ @uncriticalsimon 23 Aug 2017
      Replying to @380kmh

      Then you just end up with hideously overcrowded peak time trains, or the rolling stock and infrastructure are too expensive to maintain.

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    8. Simon‏ @uncriticalsimon 23 Aug 2017
      Replying to @uncriticalsimon @380kmh

      Plus if you have flat rate advance fares you just end up with scalping.

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    9. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 23 Aug 2017
      Replying to @uncriticalsimon

      Somehow a non-issue in Japan, which has fixed fares no matter how early or late you book

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    10. Simon‏ @uncriticalsimon 23 Aug 2017
      Replying to @380kmh

      Well it's a problem in Britain, and not a new one (BR had Apex fares, after all, as well as Savers and Supersavers).

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      Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 23 Aug 2017
      Replying to @uncriticalsimon

      Isn't it funny that it's a problem in the country which charges little in advance then raises the rates close to date of travel? 🤔

      11:35 AM - 23 Aug 2017
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        2. Simon‏ @uncriticalsimon 23 Aug 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          France does the same though, indeed the TGV network is pre-booked only.

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        3. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 23 Aug 2017
          Replying to @uncriticalsimon

          By pre-booked do you mean you can't buy in stations on the day of travel? Genuinely curious bc it's an ambiguous term...

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        4. Simon‏ @uncriticalsimon 23 Aug 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          You have to have a reservation before boarding a train. You can't just jump on like you can here.

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        5. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 23 Aug 2017
          Replying to @uncriticalsimon

          In most Japanese stations (and all Shinkansen stations) you can't even get on the platform without a ticket

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        6. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 23 Aug 2017
          Replying to @380kmh @uncriticalsimon

          However, the ticket may be an unreserved ticket (ie, guarantees you passage but no guarantee of a seat), depending on the train you take

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        7. Simon‏ @uncriticalsimon 23 Aug 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          Are they fixed time tickets or open tickets? (ie if you miss your train do you have to pay again, or at least queue up again?)

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        8. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 23 Aug 2017
          Replying to @uncriticalsimon

          If there's no seat reservation then I think it's open--a seat reservation is for a specific trip, though

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        9. Simon‏ @uncriticalsimon 23 Aug 2017
          Replying to @380kmh

          So not like the "counted place" reservations on UK Advance tickets where you are tied to a train but lack a seat number?

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