ALAN HARRISON <[email protected]> wrote:

    > "chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco 24h offy"
    > <[email protected]> wrote in message
    > news:1h3z9rn.1ajbd1skq01s0N%this_address_is_for_sp [email protected]...
    >
    > > In the UK (which has a complicated fare structure) the policy on buying
    > > tickets onboard varies from company to company. Virgin recently changed
    > > their policy so you could only buy standard open fares onboard. Those
    > > can be very expensive!
    >
    > I don't know how recent that was, but I bought a saver on a Virgin train
    > within the last month.

It's been a policy since the beginning of the year, and well-publicised
by them in advance, and since, but there are no doubt exceptions such as
the kind of cases you mention- especially as it involved more than one
company.

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