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...
You can get discounted tickets for commuting to work or school, if that's what you mean--I don't know these categories
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No. Saver (now called Off-Peak) is a "semi-flexible" intercity ticket not valid in the peak (restrictions vary, sometimes it's unrestricted)
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Gotcha--no, tickets cost the same regardless of time of day. Philosophy is apparently "no need to extort people if crowds won't deter them"
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In Britain it's "how can we entice people onto off-peak trains". While peak time trains are at "sock the businessman" rates.
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ya...sounds brutal! In Japan the crowding is penalty enough for people who insist on traveling during peak
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Actually often the peak time business trains aren't too overcrowded. Because they're so expensive to use.
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So a peak single from Bristol to London is £102, but a "super off-peak single" (still unreserved, on the day) is £33.10.
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That's more like it--the price I gave at the top of the thread is the cheapest (read: slowest) between the two stops...fastest is ~£36
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Speed is mostly irrelevant to fares here, because BR decided not to surcharge InterCity trains. Unless (eg Bristol) there's a slow route.
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