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But there are tickets that are only valid for certain providers?

• tialaramex 3y ago
  That's true, to do that they use a different hack and we can actually (very expensively) route those too. These tickets are valid only on a particular service (and connections), since the franchises run the services they can sell tickets for services they run. Example from a journey I made near Xmas: 0908 from Bingley to Leeds (Northern Rail) 0945 from Leeds to Kings Cross (LNER) 1309 from Waterloo towards home (SWR) The three franchises get 100% of their part of these routes, and I'm notionally forbidden from, say, getting on an XC to zigzag South and avoid London altogether instead.