Restore Parliamentary fares?

Peter Masson wrote:

> However, I would like to see clause 15 of the Regulation of Railways
> Act 1868 applied in a modern context. This states:
> "Fares to be posted in Stations - On and after 1st January 1869 every
> company shall cause to be exhibited in a conspicuous place in the
> booking office of each station on their line a list or lists painted,
> printed, or written in legible characters, containing the fares of
> passengers by the trains included in the timetables of the company
> from that station to every place for which passenger tickets are
> there issued.'
>
> As thetrainline.com, and each TOC website that has ticket-selling
> capability, would appear to be a booking office it seems that
> complying with that legislation (which ought to be brought back into
> force) would require the whole of the National Fares Manual to be
> published in a publicly-accessible part of the web, and linked from
> all ticket-issuing websites.

Is that Act still in force?

Richard Hunt

On 14 May, 21:07, Jeremy Double <jmd.nos...@> wrote:
>
> To me, this emphasises how much passengers are being ripped off by the
> TOCs under the current pricing regime, and the need for regulation of
> full-price tickets.

Its a fact though that all these tickets are still subsidised by the
taxpayer. I believe that Gatwick Express was the only TOC that covered
its operating costs.
Perhaps it would be fairer if the true cost of journeys were to be
calculated and a government subsidy discount deducted. I reckon
Manchester to London would come in at well in excess of £1000 given
the amount thats been spent on the WCML.

Paul