Didcot
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| Weather | 14°C, Wind S at 13 km/h, 90% Humidity |
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| Population | 2011 census |
| Shire county | Oxfordshire |
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| ID | 1077640 |
About Didcot
Didcot is a railway town and civil parish in the ceremonial county of Oxfordshire and the historic county of Berkshire. Didcot is 15 miles south of Oxford, 10 miles east of Wantage and 15 miles north west of Reading.
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Go to "Split ticket" rail-rates the mainstream, experts say
thousands of passengers could save money on rail fares as "split tickets" more and more, experts predict.
in purchase to split multiple cards, a trip up into sections may work to be cheaper than a single Ticket .
users must not change, as long as your train stops at the destination printed on each Ticket - But The Practice was "niche".
on-site booking train line has now appears to be a split save tool to help you find cheaper travel through the cleavage of excursions in the legs.
"Split tickets" are permitted, provided that the trains stop at the Ticket destinations.
the travel journalist Simon Calder told Bbc News "split ticketing" was not a new concept, But had to act so far only by a well-informed group of passengers.
"What we are seeing now, the whole thing moves from the niche to a company, by the millions to buy tickets," he said.
Previously, the passengers split ticketing sites such as rail Europe price is a hack, and shared My plan to check Ticket prices.
How it workspassengers to buy More Than one Ticket , rather than a single Ticket for the entire trip.
as long as The Train makes a stop at a car split-Ticket station on the way, you can be on the same track during the entire trip.
you can buy a Ticket from London Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads without the allocation of the tariff-a cost that could be tomorrow, up to £112 on Monday.
But , buy a Ticket from Paddington, Didcot is on the same route and another from Didcot to Bristol to save around one-third of the cost of The Trip would be. The Practice is legal, as long as The Train stops, such as Didcot .
train line, said other examples of potential savings, including £80. 10 between Manchester Piccadilly and London Euston , and £79. 85 between Edinburgh and London King 's Cross.
The Rail Delivery Group (RDG), The Train operator, called for a reform of the entire railway tariffs, the structure, the description of the split-Ticket feature as a "sticking plaster" solution for a "system in need of a major surgery".
experts say are Sold , The Rules on how tickets - the date on the year in 1995 - have not kept pace with the technology, or how the people work and travel.
The rail industry has agreed that passengers on the basis of "long-standing anomaly".
to be published to set The RDG last year, including Ticket prices, more flexible.
Mr Calder said Ticket -splitting due to the large number of passengers, the rail tariff reforms accelerated as The Train companies begin to lose revenue.
"The rail industry says it calls think for a reform for years and I [Ticket -splitting] could accelerate this process," he said.
"We're going to see train companies, the government says: 'We lose all the money that you get, to help us sort this. '
"The answer is quite simple tariffs reform. "
'band-aid'Jacqueline Starr, chief operating officer at RDG, said: "We support every effort to improve how people buy tickets in the current rates of the structure, But in the end, these are just a sticking plaster solutions to a system in need of a major Operation.
"the reforms proposed, the investing of train operators and supported by consumer groups, a better selection of tariffs would provide for all, encouraging people to use The Network and to re the generation of revenue for the government, in improvements in the services. "
The tool was welcomed by the independent watchdog-Transport focus to use for the activation of the passengers, "cheaper travel, where they are available".
However, The Group 's CEO, Anthony Smith , added: "of course, people do not need, should, tips, and tricks to know that you always see The Best deal, and so we want to major in fares and ticketing reforms to give come from the upcoming Williams. "
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Source of news: bbc.com
